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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8675289" data-attributes="member: 7026617">That's not surprising; Gygax and company came out of miniatures wargaming, so pulling out a tape measure would have seen fine to them.  As I noted, if you came from a board wargame background, it always seemed conceptually like a pain in the behind.Once you had Greyhawk to deal with some elements of it without Chainmail, it was plenty doable; you just lost some nuance that Chainmail could potentially bring to it (but then, a lot of parts of Chainmail were completely irrelevant to how many people played, so even if they had access they probably ignored it pretty quickly)Can't say, since by that time period I'd moved on to RQ and Champions, neither of which I'd ever have thought of playing without a map of some sort.</blockquote>