From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: About miniatures
Date:	Sun, 24 Sep 1995 10:30:59 +0100

> From: Eve Forward <lutra@******.COM>

> We mostly only use mini's when it's vital to know exactly where
> everyone is in relation to everyone else; a dodge-and-shoot firefight
> in a junkyard, for example, or anything relatively head-to-head so you
> can see who the monowhip might hit if you miss your target. Transition
> from playing without minis to using minis in the middle of a game doesnt
> take more than a few minutes if the GM already has the map prepared.

I have these painted figures on them at hand (on a shelf about a meter
away from where I normally sit), which I occassionally use to mark
positions of people in firefights, but most of the time I just draw a map
on paper, and mark positions with my pencil: the first letter or letters
of the (N)PC's name, or a number for nameless NPCs. Real simple.

> Admittedly the players know something's up when you say, "Ok, we'd
> better break out the minis for this", but it really does help.

That's the same as when the GM starts drawing a map anyway. Like someone
once said when I took my pencil and grid paper to hand: "I hate it when he
does that" :)

> And for minis we usually just use my AD&D minis, or the little
> SR card-minis, because we aren't really inerested in having the mini
> look just like our character. Most of the characters are too wierd to
> fit any storebought mini anyway.

That is one of the biggest problems with using miniatures -- none of them
ever looks like the one you want, apart maybe from the few "character"
figures Ral Partha has made for SR: Harlequin, Kyle Morgan, Maria
Mercurial, and some more. And I don't really like the looks of them apart
from Maria...
Of course it does get a bit weird (or maybe oddly appropriate :) if the
players are in an ambush by Aztlan soldiers who are represented by a
handful of skeletons...

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