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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7565574" data-attributes="member: 82106">I beg to differ. Having started playing D&D in 1975 I assure you that there was combat on the table top with the terrain drawn out, and it was pretty much THE way it was done in our neck of the woods. I never heard of this 'Theater of the Mind' or playing without stuff laid out on the table with minis until at least the mid 80's and then we only did it because we were in college and just didn't have a large surface to use in our dorm rooms! After I graduated and got my own place, we were right back to BIG table tops with full layouts. Even if we had a small table, still laid it all out. Did this in every type of game we played to varying degrees right on up to today.I'm not saying everyone did this, but TotM is DEFINITELY NOT some 'Ur state' of D&D that has 'returned'.</blockquote>