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<blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 1008325" data-attributes="member: 2804">Thanks for the moral support! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I think going towards minis is a very good marketing strategy for WotC and anything that helps WotC is good for D&amp;D and gaming in general.However, I personally don't like minis and have found that it sucks the life out of combat.&nbsp; When players can't see where everything is at a glance, combat becomes less an exercise in die rolling and more an exercise in imagination.You are forced to use your imagination to describe the scene, the atmosphere, the actions and reactions of PCs and NPCs.&nbsp; All of this is unnecessary in a minis heavy game.Now the pro-mini people will say that you can have all this description with minis, but I have found in practice that it doesn't work that way.&nbsp; Using your imagination requires effort and if you have minis sitting there, the old imagination becomes less frequently used and starts to gather dust. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Since converting over to 3rd edition from 2nd, my group found the combats becoming stagnant and stale.&nbsp; It was fine for some of the more mathematically minded of the players, but for the DM and those players who thrive on creativity and pulling off all sorts of crazy stunts in combat, they were being suffocated with all the mini-based combats.We found that combats are much more exciting and memorable when you play it out in your head than on a combat mat with figures.&nbsp; As soon as we dropped minis our games became way more exciting again.I don't mind WotC being pro mini because it helps D&amp;D appeal to the masses.&nbsp; But it would be nice for a set of cinematic rules for us, not anti-mini but pro-imagination, people. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dragonblade, post: 1008325, member: 2804"] Thanks for the moral support! :) I think going towards minis is a very good marketing strategy for WotC and anything that helps WotC is good for D&D and gaming in general. However, I personally don't like minis and have found that it sucks the life out of combat. When players can't see where everything is at a glance, combat becomes less an exercise in die rolling and more an exercise in imagination. You are forced to use your imagination to describe the scene, the atmosphere, the actions and reactions of PCs and NPCs. All of this is unnecessary in a minis heavy game. Now the pro-mini people will say that you can have all this description with minis, but I have found in practice that it doesn't work that way. Using your imagination requires effort and if you have minis sitting there, the old imagination becomes less frequently used and starts to gather dust. :) Since converting over to 3rd edition from 2nd, my group found the combats becoming stagnant and stale. It was fine for some of the more mathematically minded of the players, but for the DM and those players who thrive on creativity and pulling off all sorts of crazy stunts in combat, they were being suffocated with all the mini-based combats. We found that combats are much more exciting and memorable when you play it out in your head than on a combat mat with figures. As soon as we dropped minis our games became way more exciting again. I don't mind WotC being pro mini because it helps D&D appeal to the masses. But it would be nice for a set of cinematic rules for us, not anti-mini but pro-imagination, people. :) [/QUOTE]

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