D&D General Stranger Things Image of a D&D Game

The new Stranger Things season 4 promo video dropped with a cool quick scene of their D&D game! Not much to see but the old classic pitted dice. Anyone have a clue about the minis depicted?

 

[wicked cool]

i tried the same . they had the 2 types

 

[Marc_C]

I’ve tried googling when vinyl mats appeared with no luck

Chessex was founded in 1987; 34 years ago according to wiki. Not sure when mats came out.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I definitely used a vinyl mat by 1990. Not sure if I had it any earlier than that, though. Definitely not earlier than '87. We DID use pennies when we didn't have enough minis, (though we had a lot) but we used hexes, and not a grid, until 3e.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

If those are crumbs strewn across the battlemat, I would've been a grumpy DM. Even as a kid, I was pretty fastidious. Still kinda mad about the chocolate milk stains on my original DMG (entirely my fault that they are).

I remember having some sort of modular dungeon mapping card system back in the day, though we only used it a few times. We were mostly Theatre of the Mind, though we all had minis to represent our characters (which we'd use for tracking party order now and then, but mostly had just because they looked cool).

As for the mini, I think it looks like it's got a rounded slotta base. If so, that puts the year at sometime 86 or later, if I have the timeline for when those came along right.

 

[Marc_C]

I remember using miniatures since 1981. I had a box of Grenadier Goblins used for any humanoids the party met. We moved them directly on the table using inches as with wargames. There was no grid. Bought my first Chessex mat in 1991.

 

[darjr]

I remember drink rings making a difference in some combats. It added dynamism!

 

[Marc_C]

Man I remember drink rings making a difference in some combats. It added dynamism!

LOL!

We used erasers to represent horses or wagons. Just put the mini on top. Voilà!

 

[darjr]

i tried the same . they had the 2 types

What does this mean? If you’d please explain. Thank you!

 

[wicked cool]

they had a medium 1 plus a very large mat plus there was one that could be used to represent space battles (diagonal in shape hexes). i vaguely remember them for space combat games . i feel like it was during the time of dragonlance (1984-) as that was the height of D&D/miniatures for me (before the dark times when the game/miniatures mostly disapeared lol)

 

[Yaarel]

When I played with a 1e group, we had beautifully painted minis (artists among us). But we still put them on graph paper. And ignored them, because we were doing theater of the mind. Only complex big boss scenes ever pulled out the minis.