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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 4135611" data-attributes="member: 158">I've had the opposite experience:1) Of all the groups I've played in, the only time I didn't use &quot;mats &amp; minis&quot; was when I originally played with one player and me as DM, back when I first taught myself how to play. The group I met later, ALL of them First Edition adopters from about 1978, used minis of some sort and mats (in those days, it was risk pieces and a laminated piece of 1 inch graph paper). After them, every group I played with has used some form of spatial representation for play of D&amp;D.2) I ran a poll on the 1e AD&amp;D Dragonsfoot forums a few years ago; <a href="http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1344" target="_blank">http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1344</a>and the consensus at the time was that the majority did use some form of spatial representation, whether tape and minis, or dice, or chits of some sort, etc. (unfortunately, Dragonsfoot seems to be down right now.) It's not surprising, considering AD&amp;D's wargame roots, that this would be the case. In fact, it seems to me that the generation of players that started between 1985 and 1995 would have been more likely to NOT use minis, than the generation before it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 4135611, member: 158"] I've had the opposite experience: 1) Of all the groups I've played in, the only time I didn't use "mats & minis" was when I originally played with one player and me as DM, back when I first taught myself how to play. The group I met later, ALL of them First Edition adopters from about 1978, used minis of some sort and mats (in those days, it was risk pieces and a laminated piece of 1 inch graph paper). After them, every group I played with has used some form of spatial representation for play of D&D. 2) I ran a poll on the 1e AD&D Dragonsfoot forums a few years ago; [url]http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1344[/url] and the consensus at the time was that the majority did use some form of spatial representation, whether tape and minis, or dice, or chits of some sort, etc. (unfortunately, Dragonsfoot seems to be down right now.) It's not surprising, considering AD&D's wargame roots, that this would be the case. In fact, it seems to me that the generation of players that started between 1985 and 1995 would have been more likely to NOT use minis, than the generation before it. [/QUOTE]

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