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Friday, May 8, 2020

A simple Battle-grid combat

Sometimes, I want to run a fight without having to draw an exact map of the terrain. It's specially true if I want to describe the scene in a theatre of the mind style. I plan to test a battle-grid for helping me to run this style of simplified fights.

For this, we need a battle-grid to help define zones (lines) for allied and enemy side. For each grid we need :
  • a Front Line (one for each side)
  • a Rear Line (one for each side)
  • a Far Line (one for each side) - spelled Back Line on my picture below
We don't use measures of distance, nor 5 feet grid. 6 zones will be fine, you can draw them on a blank map or make something fancy.

Battle-Grid example
A battle-grid on my landing page on Roll20