Miniatures in Early D&D
Written on Jun 24, 2008 // games.A very good post from Retro-Roleplaying: The Blog
Early Versions of D&D were NOT Tactical Combat Minis Games
The rules to early versions of D&D do not support the idea that minis were suggested, let alone required, for combat. Not only is the combat systems used in OD&D, AD&D 1E, B/X D&D, and BECMI D&D very abstract, but those rules and the examples of play therein seldom even mention minis.
My friends and I got into D&D from a background in Choose-Your-Own-Adventures and Fighting Fantasy books. We say D&D as being something like that but with nearly unlimited choices, and a game world that reacted to our decisions. We never used miniatures in our games. That came later when I started playing Warhammer 40K.
