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<blockquote data-quote="R_Chance" data-source="post: 7747903" data-attributes="member: 55149">For us it always involved miniatures (and still does), but then we went straight from playing miniature games to D&amp;D. TSR made its living selling miniature rules. The fact that there is less mention of miniatures in the original game has to do with the assumption that players would have / use Chainmail. It saved pages in the product, and either sold another TSR product or saved customers from essentially buying the same material twice. An alternative system was provided for combat of course, involving a 20 sided die (or more likely chits back in the day). We liked the alternative method and by the time the Greyhawk supplement came out in 1975 I think it was pretty much the standard method. Still, miniatures were a big part of our games and, judging by advertising in The Strategic Review and The Dragon that was typical. I miss collecting and painting miniatures, but when you have limited time and a large collection its hard to justify more. Especially to the wife <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />What is really odd, is sitting here while people discuss the history of something that is still so current in your life...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="R_Chance, post: 7747903, member: 55149"] For us it always involved miniatures (and still does), but then we went straight from playing miniature games to D&D. TSR made its living selling miniature rules. The fact that there is less mention of miniatures in the original game has to do with the assumption that players would have / use Chainmail. It saved pages in the product, and either sold another TSR product or saved customers from essentially buying the same material twice. An alternative system was provided for combat of course, involving a 20 sided die (or more likely chits back in the day). We liked the alternative method and by the time the Greyhawk supplement came out in 1975 I think it was pretty much the standard method. Still, miniatures were a big part of our games and, judging by advertising in The Strategic Review and The Dragon that was typical. I miss collecting and painting miniatures, but when you have limited time and a large collection its hard to justify more. Especially to the wife :) What is really odd, is sitting here while people discuss the history of something that is still so current in your life... [/QUOTE]

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