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<blockquote data-quote="wedgeski" data-source="post: 5206513" data-attributes="member: 16212">Although I tend to agree with RC that the progression of the game has gone hand-in-hand with Wizards' success with mini's, there is a distinction to be made here, if it hasn't been made already. The game does not encourage the use of minis, so much as it encourages the use of a battle-mat.Now there happens to be an excellent line of official D&amp;D mini's sold by Wizards that will do this job. But you could as easily use cardboard tokens (of which there are also many options on the market), marbles (I have a fine collection myself), bits of paper (I'm never without), beads, balls of fluff, bits of hardened pizza crust, coins... whatever. Maybe they're not as *fun* (well, depending on where the fluff came from), but they do the job.In addition, that 40% figure that RC quoted... I too would have answered &quot;no&quot; to the question, &quot;Have you ever used mini's to represent D&amp;D combat?&quot;. But I would have answered an emphatic yes to the question, &quot;Do you visualise D&amp;D combats on your table using tokens to represents PC's and monsters?&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wedgeski, post: 5206513, member: 16212"] Although I tend to agree with RC that the progression of the game has gone hand-in-hand with Wizards' success with mini's, there is a distinction to be made here, if it hasn't been made already. The game does not encourage the use of minis, so much as it encourages the use of a battle-mat. Now there happens to be an excellent line of official D&D mini's sold by Wizards that will do this job. But you could as easily use cardboard tokens (of which there are also many options on the market), marbles (I have a fine collection myself), bits of paper (I'm never without), beads, balls of fluff, bits of hardened pizza crust, coins... whatever. Maybe they're not as *fun* (well, depending on where the fluff came from), but they do the job. In addition, that 40% figure that RC quoted... I too would have answered "no" to the question, "Have you ever used mini's to represent D&D combat?". But I would have answered an emphatic yes to the question, "Do you visualise D&D combats on your table using tokens to represents PC's and monsters?". [/QUOTE]

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