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5 years ago ::
Mar 21, 2008 - 7:46PM
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You could do what I use to do in my cheap (read: Highschool) days. I used dominoes! each section is a perfect square on a battlemat. You just outline the hallways and doors with it and then you can get a general jist of the area and the distance without the grid underneath it. Even before we had mini's, i would do that just to show what the area looked like. I still do it now, especially when i don't feel like going through the hassle of marker clean up.
I used chess pieces and various handy items lying around myself ("okay, see the cigarette lighter? That's the altar of Tharizdun.") I PREFER a battlemat and minis these days, but there is acertain nostalgia value to doing it the old way.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 26, 2008 - 8:08PM
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Date Joined:
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I use dungeon tiles and DnD minis, they help in combat but my players and I ignor them outside combat.
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5 years ago ::
Apr 17, 2008 - 1:58PM
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Abstract combat is actually preferable to some. This might come as a shock to all you kids these days, but in real life, people in a fight don't have range-finders built into their eyes - they have to guestimate. "Will this grenade get all five of those guys?" is something real people have to try and make educated guesses about. So when your GM says "There's five guys down at the far end of the room, sorta in a circle" then guess what? You have NO idea how far that might be unless you have a good eye for distance. But in all honesty, playing with a mat with distances measured out nice and neat is sort of cheating, since you don't have a laser/radar range finder in your shield to help you out in a dungeon. Sometimes you can throw that fireball and just not have the range for it. Tough luck mate.
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