The new Stranger Things season 4 promo video dropped with a cool quick scene of their D&D game! Not much to see but the old classic pitted dice. Anyone have a clue about the minis depicted?
they had a medium 1 plus a very large mat plus there was one that could be used to represent space battles (diagonal in shape hexes). i vaguely remember them for space combat games . i feel like it was during the time of dragonlance (1984-) as that was the height of D&D/miniatures for me (before the dark times when the game/miniatures mostly disapeared lol)
I ditched my Grenadier models as quickly as I could to replace them with Ral Partha versions.When I found out Ral Parthia were available for purchase, it destroyed me.
To generate a random number from 1-160 of course!I started in '84 and that's how we've always played. Maps and minis from day one.
I'm just curious why they're rolling a d6, d8, and a d10 together.
Hmm I got caught up in the battle mat question but I think you're right. I use old file folders and poster board myself. Put down a 1 inch grid, cut them into various lengths of corridor, room sizes, etc. I like the parchment color of the typical manila folder but the 36" x 24" poster board (white, in 10 packs no less) comes in handy for larger buildings and layouts. And it's easy to color on as well. That will save me from hunting for adds and teach me a lesson about not taking a closer look for myselfAnd that is not a Chessex battlemat. That is a 1-inch scale dungeon cut from manilla folders. I do this all the time.
My friends and I were still doing it in the 80's and even into the 90's. Some of us refused to color our d20s (with two sets of 1-10) or had a d10 that we liked the look of .I have not watched the preview, but perhaps they are rolling to hit and damage in one go. It was common in the old days to roll a d6 and a d10 together to create a d20 - 1-3 on the d6 gives you 1-10 and 4-6 on the d6 gives you 11-20. The d8 is just a damage die.
As I recall this was more of a thing in the 70s than the 80s though..