CombatBunny
2015-07-06, 01:43 PM
Hi Everyone =)
I hope you are alright.
This is the situation: My group isn’t very oriented to combat; we like to tell stories focused more on drama, self-discovery, moral dilemmas, intrigue, etc. So we just use combat as a change of peace or for very specific circumstances.
Having said that, my current GM has run several sessions in which combat doesn’t arises a single time in the whole game, and because of that the miniatures are just displayed on the table, but we rarely do anything with them, so they end up more like a distractor and annoyingly occupying space on the table.
For an adventure I'm currently working on, I want to keep embracing the philosophy of planning adventures avoiding as much combat (Physical combat) as I can, but at the same time I would still like to use miniatures and make them matter, for no other reason that I love miniatures. Over the years I have spent a considerable amount of money on them and want them to be used, but I don’t want to end up as my fellow GM, just laying the miniatures on the table for each scene, but not actually doing anything relevant with them, or using them in a way that they don’t add value, so that it would be the same using them than not.
So, which other ways can you make miniatures matter other than combat? Do you have other creative ways to use them in your table?
I hope you are alright.
This is the situation: My group isn’t very oriented to combat; we like to tell stories focused more on drama, self-discovery, moral dilemmas, intrigue, etc. So we just use combat as a change of peace or for very specific circumstances.
Having said that, my current GM has run several sessions in which combat doesn’t arises a single time in the whole game, and because of that the miniatures are just displayed on the table, but we rarely do anything with them, so they end up more like a distractor and annoyingly occupying space on the table.
For an adventure I'm currently working on, I want to keep embracing the philosophy of planning adventures avoiding as much combat (Physical combat) as I can, but at the same time I would still like to use miniatures and make them matter, for no other reason that I love miniatures. Over the years I have spent a considerable amount of money on them and want them to be used, but I don’t want to end up as my fellow GM, just laying the miniatures on the table for each scene, but not actually doing anything relevant with them, or using them in a way that they don’t add value, so that it would be the same using them than not.
So, which other ways can you make miniatures matter other than combat? Do you have other creative ways to use them in your table?