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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9012132" data-attributes="member: 93670">Anyone can opt to skip the standard roll up grid mat &amp; minis in favor of using a display hooked to a vtt like [spoiler=&quot;these&quot;] [MEDIA=youtube]qzCywpFgw60[/MEDIA][MEDIA=youtube]c6x0In-Lumk[/MEDIA][MEDIA=youtube]IjUfR2Ao7Sc[/MEDIA][MEDIA=youtube]S8NoG-w1RbI[/MEDIA][/spoiler] You are correct about your remembering.&nbsp; It doesn't take some kind of huge trust issue for these ranges to cause friction that had no reason to exist though Answering your flgs question, I don't believe I've ever heard of a game shop with space for gaming that lacks electrical outlets to power things like a laptop &amp; small display since those are pretty standard in the walls of commercial buildings&nbsp; suitable for a game shop.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Others have given examples of in person friction caused by these excessive ranges &amp; I've tried to focus on published encounters I've seen these excessive ranges impact to avoid the gm blame loop. It's very easy for players to say &quot;no we want to back up before we get that close and...&quot; or proactively plan their approach to a quest area in a way that allows them to to express a plan that makes use of these ranges in ways that do not run into &quot;the battle mat is not that big..&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9012132, member: 93670"] Anyone can opt to skip the standard roll up grid mat & minis in favor of using a display hooked to a vtt like [spoiler="these"] [MEDIA=youtube]qzCywpFgw60[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]c6x0In-Lumk[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]IjUfR2Ao7Sc[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]S8NoG-w1RbI[/MEDIA] [/spoiler] You are correct about your remembering. It doesn't take some kind of huge trust issue for these ranges to cause friction that had no reason to exist though Answering your flgs question, I don't believe I've ever heard of a game shop with space for gaming that lacks electrical outlets to power things like a laptop & small display since those are pretty standard in the walls of commercial buildings suitable for a game shop. :D Others have given examples of in person friction caused by these excessive ranges & I've tried to focus on published encounters I've seen these excessive ranges impact to avoid the gm blame loop. It's very easy for players to say "no we want to back up before we get that close and..." or proactively plan their approach to a quest area in a way that allows them to to express a plan that makes use of these ranges in ways that do not run into "the battle mat is not that big.." [/QUOTE]

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