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<blockquote data-quote="CharlesRyan" data-source="post: 4979569" data-attributes="member: 5265">To be clear, I'm not talking about using them in a tactical sense. More like &quot;Okay, Gaspard and Madeleine are talking to the Count's seneschal&quot; [put three minis in the centre of the table] &quot;The rest of you are still at the Pike and Boar.&quot; [put the rest of the PC minis off to the side.] Social scene go!No battlemat, no specific positioning. But now there's a focal point to the activity, and everyone is reminded who is where.. And as someone else mentioned, players like having their own little &quot;avatars,&quot; this uses those avatars to connect the real person to the in-game activity in a slightly more concrete manner.I totally respect this position, and the desire to maintain immersion and avoid unrealistic decisions. But in my own experience, no visual representation of the world means everyone is picturing the scene somewhat differently. The inevitable confusion that results (&quot;What do you mean I can't stop the bad guy? I thought I was standing between him and the door.&quot;) is more damaging to immersion, and leads to more unrealistic decisions. Your experience may of course be different.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CharlesRyan, post: 4979569, member: 5265"] To be clear, I'm not talking about using them in a tactical sense. More like "Okay, Gaspard and Madeleine are talking to the Count's seneschal" [put three minis in the centre of the table] "The rest of you are still at the Pike and Boar." [put the rest of the PC minis off to the side.] Social scene go! No battlemat, no specific positioning. But now there's a focal point to the activity, and everyone is reminded who is where.. And as someone else mentioned, players like having their own little "avatars," this uses those avatars to connect the real person to the in-game activity in a slightly more concrete manner. I totally respect this position, and the desire to maintain immersion and avoid unrealistic decisions. But in my own experience, no visual representation of the world means everyone is picturing the scene somewhat differently. The inevitable confusion that results ("What do you mean I can't stop the bad guy? I thought I was standing between him and the door.") is more damaging to immersion, and leads to more unrealistic decisions. Your experience may of course be different. [/QUOTE]

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