[Trombone4Hire]

Originally Posted by Lethe

Most of the reason I don't want to use minis is because, well, I've never used them.

Stupid, maybe, and I admit it, but that's pretty much it.

Also, I don't feel like forking out the extra cash for them and I can't help but think that if I'm going to use miniatures for tactical combat I might as well just bust out Heroscape or another board game.

To be clear, when people say 4e needs minis, they don't mean official D&D minis and dungeon tiles. They mean you'll need some method of marking position on a grid, i.e. a chess board with chess pieces, or graph paper with colored pencils, or a gridded piece of paper with coins or buttons. I understand not wanting to spend money on minis, but there are a lot of very inexpensive options.