GrandSpam@... wrote: > Ok, another question. Do you guys use the lead miniatures just for the player > characters, or for NPC's, monster's et? > I, personally, would _love_ to use miniatures for everything, but I can see > how that would take a heap of time and money. Also, I was looking around Ral- > Partha's site earlier, and discovered that *gasp!* they didn't have fluster > beasts! However, just about everything else is easily found or made from > other models. Here's an inexpensive and effective idea for those of you who play in a church facility or who might otherwise have acess to these things: -Whiteboard (the bigger the better) -Overhead Projector I draw or print (using a color printer) combat and town maps on overhead projection sheets or sometimes using a copier, I copy the maps that come with the adventure (any printshop/copy place can do this for you). Then I project these onto the whiteboard (dry-erase) and draw on Lightraiders and NPC's onto the whiteboard. The effect ends up looking kind of like a football play (Okay, the "X"'s are the goblins and the Circle with your characters 1st initial in it is you). I also have numerious copies of varying scales of the battle grids (Just different sizes of the square grids - no numbers) that I then lay ontop of the map should combat break out so that not olny do I have a map projected on the screen but the battle grid as well. Then, as combat porgresses, I change positions by erasing and redrawing the "X"s and "O"s as well as place damage beside the icons (Example that "X" [Dark Creature, DragonSlave, etc...] has a -14 beside it meaning it has taken 14 points of damage - I don't include how much the "X" has *left* but give some indication based on how I describe it, barely scratched, bleeding freely, barely standing, etc...). This lets *all* the players have the same idea of where everyone is and what is happening and it projects it on a big area which has kind of a cool "heads-up display/on-screen" feel to it. Well, that's my two cents, Matt Crandall