Reply To: Calling All Hobby Heroes – A Hobby Holiday Weekender Type Thing

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@evilstu I think another aspect of using minis is that it allows players to provide a visualisation of their character in a way that might not otherwise be possible.  Back in the 90’s everything we did was theatre of the mind and I had a lot of fun.  But for most of us, drawing our characters wasn’t really possible; miniatures are a bit like having someone drawbl your character for you, in 3D!  And you don’t really have to be particularly good at painting to convey a broad outline of what your character looks like.  Then of course people like me get the opportunity to exercise a bit of creativity by painting them – I put a hell of a lot if effort into people’s RPG characters because I think they should be as good as I can make them.  I also paint models for any fellow players I might be playing with.  So even during non-combat scenes, when there’s no map, no need for ranges or positions, those miniatures still exist and people can see them and imagine those characters in whatever situation that they are in.  I definitely think that miniatures add to a game and I don’t think that they take anything away nor do they necessarily destroy any theatre that may be going on in people’s minds, if anything they actually help it in the same way they help visualise battles in Wargames in a way using tokens or counters does not.