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<blockquote data-quote="grodog" data-source="post: 3761662" data-attributes="member: 1613">I've always used minis in our D&amp;D games; when I was first introduced to the game in 1977 by a kids down the street, we used stratomatic football players for minis, repainted them different colors to indiciate which were monsters vs. PCs, and such.My brothers and I swiftly shifted into buying Heritage and Grenadier figures, often at local conventions, and incorporated them into our games.&nbsp; Some games would simply consist of one of us creating an encounter area on our large living room nook table, and then battling it out (using D&amp;D rules as wargaming rules, basically).&nbsp; Some of the regional cons in the northeast in the early '80s included the old Grenadier Visual Dungeon by WM Frog:&nbsp; for $1 you bought into the game, and you kept your PC figure and whatever figures you were able to kill during the session.&nbsp; That ran for several years, and was always a blast to play (the dungeon was large, probably over 8x8 feet square, perhaps even as big as 8x12 or so, and constructed from wood, with wooden lids on the rooms; when you entered the room, you saw the monster(s) and reacted accordingly).&nbsp; Most of the time we used minis in our day-to-day campaign play, though not always.&nbsp; We never used a battle mat (though sometimes we'd pull out a chessboard for a tactical combat area; more often we'd just draw it on some scrap graph paper), and I didn't own one until sometime in the late 90s or so.&nbsp; Anyway, certainly for us, some of the fun of the game was painting the minis, too, as well as using them in games.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="grodog, post: 3761662, member: 1613"] I've always used minis in our D&D games; when I was first introduced to the game in 1977 by a kids down the street, we used stratomatic football players for minis, repainted them different colors to indiciate which were monsters vs. PCs, and such. My brothers and I swiftly shifted into buying Heritage and Grenadier figures, often at local conventions, and incorporated them into our games. Some games would simply consist of one of us creating an encounter area on our large living room nook table, and then battling it out (using D&D rules as wargaming rules, basically). Some of the regional cons in the northeast in the early '80s included the old Grenadier Visual Dungeon by WM Frog: for $1 you bought into the game, and you kept your PC figure and whatever figures you were able to kill during the session. That ran for several years, and was always a blast to play (the dungeon was large, probably over 8x8 feet square, perhaps even as big as 8x12 or so, and constructed from wood, with wooden lids on the rooms; when you entered the room, you saw the monster(s) and reacted accordingly). Most of the time we used minis in our day-to-day campaign play, though not always. We never used a battle mat (though sometimes we'd pull out a chessboard for a tactical combat area; more often we'd just draw it on some scrap graph paper), and I didn't own one until sometime in the late 90s or so. Anyway, certainly for us, some of the fun of the game was painting the minis, too, as well as using them in games. [/QUOTE]

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