From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: About miniatures
Date:	Mon, 25 Sep 1995 10:22:46 +0100

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

> Well, except what do you do when they move? Erase and redraw, or make
> little arrows until the map looks like a football tactics chart? Also,

Erase and redraw, yes. Plus the occasional arrow to indicate some or
another tidbit but that tends to make the whole thing a bit chaotic :)

> how do you indicate which way they are facing?

We don't, we just remember those kinds of things (actually: _I_ remember
those kinds of things :)

>> 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...
>
> Well, why should it matter? The players don't look like a little "X", or
> like dice or risk pieces or Skittles or any of the other things I've seen
> double as minis.

(What's a Skittle?) Naturally it doesn't matter, but I have this tendency
to make things realistic, and using skeletons for Aztlan soldiers just
doesn't really fit into that... But we had fun uing them anywy, especially
when the ill-trained and undisciplined (read: GM-controlled) NPCs started
shooting at each other without knowing it :) (Of course that was partly
due to the PC in command placing them rather poorly for an ambush :)

> I have sketches of all of my PC's; that's what I use to say "Here's what I
> look like." Easier, more accurate, and safer than a little mini.

If you can draw just a little bit better than I can, this would be the way
to go. I think I've ever made only one drawing of a char I played and I'm
not going to show it to anyone :)

> JUst say, "These 15 skeletons represent Azzie soldiers." No one
> can blame you for not having 15 perfect Azzie soldier minis.

I have 5 that would work, but not 12 or so :(

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