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<blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 7563765" data-attributes="member: 6778044"><p>Well I’ve already said I’ve used minis. I had thousands of them. Started buying/painting them c1980/1 I’d guess. My buddy who got me started had several hundred. I’d say that of my friends playing D&D, the ones that were regular DMs tended to have minis, and the players didn’t. But I also recall a lot of players picking up a mini for their character. </p><p></p><p>But we didn’t use them the same way that Combat & Tactics and the evolution beyond that until they came out. They weren’t an integral part of the mechanics. Don’t get me wrong, we LOVED C&T, and 3e when it came out too. Again it’s not so much the minis as it is that the focus of combat shifted more and more to being its own sub game. At the time it was happening we lived it. </p><p></p><p>To me 1995 marked as big a split in playstyle as the release of AD&D itself. There were those who used it and loved it, and the rest seemed to hate it. It wasn’t as big as the 3.5/4e split, but I remember it being a pretty heated topic. Far more than D&D vs AD&D around my area anyway.</p><p></p><p>I’d also have to point out that a lot of this was happening at a time where groups (at least in my area) were becoming more splintered. In part due to the “demonic” backlash, but also because it wasn’t cool. I had friends that no longer played that would come to talk to me in private to see what was going on in the game. They didn’t want anybody to know they EVER played. So my experiences might be quite different than others.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ilbranteloth, post: 7563765, member: 6778044"] Well I’ve already said I’ve used minis. I had thousands of them. Started buying/painting them c1980/1 I’d guess. My buddy who got me started had several hundred. I’d say that of my friends playing D&D, the ones that were regular DMs tended to have minis, and the players didn’t. But I also recall a lot of players picking up a mini for their character. But we didn’t use them the same way that Combat & Tactics and the evolution beyond that until they came out. They weren’t an integral part of the mechanics. Don’t get me wrong, we LOVED C&T, and 3e when it came out too. Again it’s not so much the minis as it is that the focus of combat shifted more and more to being its own sub game. At the time it was happening we lived it. To me 1995 marked as big a split in playstyle as the release of AD&D itself. There were those who used it and loved it, and the rest seemed to hate it. It wasn’t as big as the 3.5/4e split, but I remember it being a pretty heated topic. Far more than D&D vs AD&D around my area anyway. I’d also have to point out that a lot of this was happening at a time where groups (at least in my area) were becoming more splintered. In part due to the “demonic” backlash, but also because it wasn’t cool. I had friends that no longer played that would come to talk to me in private to see what was going on in the game. They didn’t want anybody to know they EVER played. So my experiences might be quite different than others. [/QUOTE]
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