Visual Aids?

[Aumpa]

Hey guys, what do you think of using some sort of graphical visual aid while we play in IRC? It would help give a sense of positioning during combat. The downside is that it would probably take longer to play out a combat with a graphical aid than if we just fudged the positional aspects.

If we do use something, I'd want it to be really simple and free.

Here's a discussion thread with many options:
ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/03/0120249

[Vaylon Kenadell]

I'm not really for it... and that's saying something, given how everyone knows I love making things more complicated!

[thatkid]

Having played many games of Dungeons and Dragons over the internet, I can honestly say that visual aids do little more than slow combat to a crawl. Worse than a crawl, actually, if there are more than 2 combatants (which there no doubt will be).
I'd rather not use them.