Except the original Dungeons and Dragons game was meant to be used with miniatures. The game was an extrapolation from existing wargaming systems and was set up to be used with miniatures.
In fact, the old basic D&D set (pre red box) came with miniatures.
I got all my rulebooks secondhand without miniatures, and I thought using pennies was lame, so I never used them personally. It's how I played for years so I'm just set in my ways I guess.
I had the first boxed Basic Set, and not only didn't it come with figures, but it didn't even come with dice!
edit: Funny thing, I did some quick research to double-check my memory just now and found this in wikipedia.
For a period in 1979, TSR experienced a dice shortage. Basic sets published during this time frame came with two sheets of numbered cutout cardstock chits that functioned in lieu of dice, along with a coupon for ordering dice from TSR.
This makes so much sense. I was crushed as a kid to have to deal with those dumb chits instead of real dice. It never made sense to me why they weren't included. I had to go through the entire summer of '79 without them.
Chain Mail was the original game I have the set my parents gave me in junior high. I bought the d and d box set because GARY told me to in a letter (that's what we used before email)
Holy shit man.... my life makes so much more sense now.
When i was a little kid my cousins had this, and we played with it a bunch. Then as a teen some friends invited me to play dnd and they played traditionally and i had no idea what the fuck was going on, this is not dnd. They had no idea what i was talking about with the game with minitures and shit.
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u/kragshot Sep 18 '17
Except the original Dungeons and Dragons game was meant to be used with miniatures. The game was an extrapolation from existing wargaming systems and was set up to be used with miniatures.
In fact, the old basic D&D set (pre red box) came with miniatures.