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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 6338320" data-attributes="member: 3400">You certainly didn't need miniatures for any of that. You only needed to say that you wanted to get around the target's flank and the DM only needed to say, on his turn, he turns to follow your movements (meaning he was not able to get to that flank). Of course that's when the other PCs moved into the flanks so somebody got a lower AC to hit.1e was certainly based on miniature terminology and that probably made the transition from basic to advanced easier for a lot of people. 2e, however, pretty much disposed of it. Spells aren't listed with ranges and areas of effect in inches, they're in non-scale terms. You could still play with minis and a grid, but I would still estimate that the majority of players, just like in 1e, didn't play with them and if they did, it wasn't to the same degree of detail that they did in 3e and 4e. I suspect the Players Option book on Combat and Tactics got the game on the road toward mini-based combat.</blockquote>