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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 8899751" data-attributes="member: 20741">It did, sure. Some did play with mats and minis, though not all THAT often. It was overwhelmingly played as TotM -- even if the origins of the game came from the use of historical medieval minis played on the sand table in Gary's basement -- and on Arneson's ping-pong table on 1&quot; presentation graph paper.The AD&amp;D Open, at Gencon, was not played with minis and battlemats (though some other 1st and 2nd ed events were).[Edit: I started in 1977 with OD&amp;D on a 1&quot; graph paper on my friend's ping-pong table, too. IT very much grew out of wargaming.]Still, grid play in 1st/2nd/BECMI was the exception, not the rule. There was nothing like an AoO that seemed to trigger a critically important element of combat to the use of it.&nbsp; Spell templates, as such, did not exist in the same sense as they did with 3.0.3.0 pre-supposed the use of minis. There was a new miniature D&amp;D line introduced and sold to support that style of play -- and the minis were soft plastic and didn't break during transport. The game irrevocably changed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 8899751, member: 20741"] It did, sure. Some did play with mats and minis, though not all THAT often. It was overwhelmingly played as TotM -- even if the origins of the game came from the use of historical medieval minis played on the sand table in Gary's basement -- and on Arneson's ping-pong table on 1" presentation graph paper. The AD&D Open, at Gencon, was not played with minis and battlemats (though some other 1st and 2nd ed events were). [Edit: I started in 1977 with OD&D on a 1" graph paper on my friend's ping-pong table, too. IT very much grew out of wargaming.] Still, grid play in 1st/2nd/BECMI was the exception, not the rule. There was nothing like an AoO that seemed to trigger a critically important element of combat to the use of it. Spell templates, as such, did not exist in the same sense as they did with 3.0. 3.0 pre-supposed the use of minis. There was a new miniature D&D line introduced and sold to support that style of play -- and the minis were soft plastic and didn't break during transport. The game irrevocably changed. [/QUOTE]

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