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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 6380869" data-attributes="member: 10479">I've used minis since starting to play D&D when it first came out in 74, though in early days it was more loose.  We'd use the minis to keep track of marching order and roughly to suggest where we were during combats and what a campsite arrangement might be.  Sometimes, in more complex situations, we draw out locations on paper and even put some objects down to represent elevations.Once mats you could draw upon became available we took right to them (most of us being minis wargamers before D&D was first published.  Battlemats, flip-mats, and the like have all seen use during my games and many in which I played.When running something published, I often make my own from the maps in the adventures, scaling them up in graphics programs and printing them out for tabletop use.  I've been doing this for the 5E Starter Set Adventure and detailing much of that in the series of blog posts I have been writing starting here -<a href="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/2014/07/the-friday-grab-bag-my-d-5e-starter-set.html" target="_blank">http://www.creativemountaingames.com/2014/07/the-friday-grab-bag-my-d-5e-starter-set.html</a><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?356735-My-D-amp-D-5E-Starter-Set-Quest-and-Campaign" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?356735-My-D-amp-D-5E-Starter-Set-Quest-and-Campaign</a></blockquote>