Anyone else here just play with no visual aids at all? When I first started playing D&D after finding the second edition books in my dad’s closet, my friends and I just used our imaginations. No minis, no maps.
I tried doing this but I could never visualize the fight or what something looked like… Turns out I have aphantasia and had no idea for 24 years because I just assumed no one else actually “saw” images when told to imagine something either and it was just a phrase
It’s called Theater of the Mind, I think. It used to be the way we played ADnD, but I guess that the newer editions pushed the minis-and-grid with their more tactical playstyles.
Anyone else here just play with no visual aids at all? When I first started playing D&D after finding the second edition books in my dad’s closet, my friends and I just used our imaginations. No minis, no maps.
I tried doing this but I could never visualize the fight or what something looked like… Turns out I have aphantasia and had no idea for 24 years because I just assumed no one else actually “saw” images when told to imagine something either and it was just a phrase
It’s called Theater of the Mind, I think. It used to be the way we played ADnD, but I guess that the newer editions pushed the minis-and-grid with their more tactical playstyles.