I was wondering how other WFRP players were handling visual style during encounters?

Drawings?

Card Board Sheets?

Pre fabricated card board sheets?

Plain table - and let the players imagine for them selves?

Personally i was wondering about drawing or painting on fine polystyrene. I find this material good to work with because you can cut and and apply cheap effects such as sand og fake grass or whatever. I also respond well tol acrylic paint.

That way i could make some base boards for forest, stone, inns etc. and have some walls, trees, tables seperatly to apply when needed.

Overambitous??? - so what:)

It's mostly plain table for players to imagine, with:

- selected thematic images printed in colour and put in my brochure standups at front of table (e.g., reminder this is what the winter forest you are in looks like) - see blog linked below;

- homemade oversized location cards when they have effects or trackers built into them that again have an image dropped in (e.g., for 1000 Thrones the drug den gets a card with the image of the denizens spaced out in their bunks from the pdf).

Getting lots of earlier edition stuff in particular in pdf formats and google image search gives me most of my images.

I personally use location cards whenever I can. I've even got my locations cards split into two decks, one for urban locations, the other for rural/wilderness…with some overlap with locations that work in both and have multiple cards (i.e. Old Dirt Road). If I'm having trouble coming up with ideas before/during a game….I just draw a couple of cards from the appropriate deck to generate locations that the PCs might stumble across that day.

In addition, if I need a 3D visual representation of obstacles/terrain for a specific encounter, I use a combination of standees (the ones that come with the game) and an assortment of small molded plaster walls (ruined/solid), diorama trees and shrubs, random pawns and bits of 3d furniture/props from various old games that I threw out long ago… mainly Heroquest, Warhammer Quest, Dragonstrike, Mage Knight 3D, etc…all stored in a nicely organized Litko style box.

I must reiterate, that I ONLY use 3D props if I deem it appropriate for the encounter (it's an important scene, ala a Grande Finale), or if the PCs ask for some tactical information, and a basic description won't cut it. I DO NOT make it a regular habit of using these accessories for EVERY encounter. The game would slow to a crawl if I did.

I try to steer away from using computers, tablets, laptops, at my gaming table. I find them to be distracting. I do however, use various Warhammer-esque images when sending my players Prologue/Epilogue emails, which they always seem to enjoy.

I used to use dry/wet erase battlemats, but didn't like the size of the one I purchased. I may invest in another in the future…but a nice thick piece of tablecloth with a cobblestone pattern would work just as well, as I've attempted to do away with using any writing utensils on my side of the table if at all possible.

We don't use any props - only relative positioning of characters and some main objects.