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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dog Moon" data-source="post: 2495612" data-attributes="member: 23023">I agree with Jeff that using the mat and miniatures [Well, I can't afford that many minis, so I use dice] are excellent.  I remember in 2e and even 3e a little before we used the grid that we were pretty much always where we needed to be, no matter what.Scene: In a 10 foot by 10 feet room even though there's six of us and twenty of the enemy.Player: Can I hit the enemies with a fireball without hitting any allies?DM [no idea where anything is]: Um, sure.Generally never quite THAT bad, but close enough.As for WOTC, I haven't found much use of their latest books.  I claim to like Frostburn though all I've used out of it is like 2 PrC and a couple of feats.  Desert stuff and sea stuff doesn't interest me enough to buy an entire book.  Complete Adventurer is cool, but the others don't really do much for me.  I wasn't particularly fond of the Races books much either.  I guess I don't particularly care about the eating habits and mating rituals of halflings when I can make up something much cooler for free.Then again, I'm sure people loved those.  I think people see more bad things because people complain out those.  I've seen SO many complaints about things that I feel like puking, but rarely do you ever see: "OMG, THIS BOOK IS SOOOO AWESOME!!  IT'S LIKE...THE HOLY GRAIL OF DND BOOKS."Just my .02</blockquote>