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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tortoise" data-source="post: 5814948" data-attributes="member: 146">In my current Labyrinth Lord campaign and in previous campaigns in different editions, I have always switched between grid/mini and theatre of the mind combat styles depending on how important it was to have details.The most recent session had a dangerous encounter in which the party was almost entirely surprised by some gnolls that had tracked them into the section of a ruin they thought they had safely cleared. They had just left that room, walked down a hall and came back within a short span of time. No minis or markers were used, it was all description and a random determination of who the gnolls could reach to attack. It simulated the casual meandering about of a relaxed group getting into unexpected trouble. They nearly lost their wizard in a very short, brutal combat.Had the situation called for more detail and had the group been expecting a fight then the grid/minis would have come into play.Note: no change to stats of characters was needed for any of it to work.</blockquote>