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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6231892" data-attributes="member: 3400">No, they weren't geared for a 5' square... they were a 3 1/3' square (so you could get 3 across in a 10' corridor). Seriously. AD&D may have used some wargame terminology and its roots were showing, but I would submit that using those terms and maintaining compatibility with miniatures is a far cry from expecting or intending for the game to be used with them. Had they intended to do so, they'd have been mentioned on more than 3 or so pages in the DMG. By the time AD&D rolled around, I think Gygax had a pretty clear understanding that the game had liberated itself from the sand table and was probably going to be played in many more venues than would support the space needed for minis and a laid out board.</blockquote>