|
Post by bloodchoke on Jan 19, 2015 14:03:35 GMT
|
|
|
Post by sgtslag on Jan 19, 2015 15:14:25 GMT
I remember seeing these tiles advertised in Dragon Magazine, back in the day. I wanted them badly, but I was a student in High School, with very limited cash. Back then, we did not even have the Chessex Battlemats yet... Fond memories! Fun to see the product in a color photograph -- all I ever saw before were very small B&W ad photo's in the magazine. Thanks for sharing this blast from the distant past. Cheers!
|
|
|
Post by DnDPaladin on Jan 21, 2015 2:43:07 GMT
they weren't 3D tiles though, they were flat surfaces with tokens and the likes. its not a full circle, more like a snail circle. we've gone from flat maps, to half flat maps, to 3D maps, to completely modular material including walls, floors and ceiling.
|
|
|
Post by bloodchoke on Jan 22, 2015 12:21:09 GMT
These are pretty much the same as commercially available tiles now, only without grids. So in 1981, there were no grids, then later there were, and now a lot of folks are again using tiles without grids. See? Full circle. Obviously they're not a winning craftwar entry or even dwarven forge.
|
|
|
Post by DnDPaladin on Jan 22, 2015 19:53:13 GMT
you are right that people do not go forward sometimes.
|
|
|
Post by Sleepy Hollow Mike on Jun 18, 2015 20:22:16 GMT
I remember seeing these tiles advertised in Dragon Magazine, back in the day. I wanted them badly, but I was a student in High School, with very limited cash. Back then, we did not even have the Chessex Battlemats yet... Fond memories! Fun to see the product in a color photograph -- all I ever saw before were very small B&W ad photo's in the magazine. Thanks for sharing this blast from the distant past. Cheers! Ah! The memories! My first battlemat was a clear sheet of plastic with water soluble markers! Man those were the days! Compared to now it was like a rotary phone v.s. a smart phone! HAHA!
|
|
|
Post by michka on Jun 18, 2015 23:56:36 GMT
You kids today with your 2.5D tiles and your pre-made maps. In my day, all we had were rocks and sticks we picked up in Old Man Carter's yard. If he caught ya, you were gonna get a beatin', so we learned to be quick. We'd set the sticks out for walls and the rocks were, well they'd be rocks. We didn't have these fancy pre-painted miniatures. We had lumps of lead some guy cast in his basement. You had to paint them with enamel paints you bought at the drug store. The brushes were made of the world's lowest quality plastic too. Good luck finding a flesh color in the model car colors. And we didn't get all these 'get out of jail free' card things you guys seem to like nowadays. I mean, who needs Saving Throws. Why, I still remember that time Johnny and the gang tried to break into the Vault of Everlasting Sorrow. Johnny was our thief, and he missed the trap on the door. They never saw it coming. TPK. And we liked it. This tale of the old times was brought to you by the Old Man That Lives In My Head. He seems to get louder every day.
|
|
|
Post by DnDPaladin on Jun 19, 2015 7:12:28 GMT
been playing dnd since the red box and i dont even remember tpk that we liked... all i remember from that time was my best friends mother goblin voice !
|
|
|
Post by wilmanric on Jun 19, 2015 16:36:06 GMT
I have a set of these. I don't have the box anymore. They are totally usable and pretty appealing (for their day.)
|
|
|
Post by DnDPaladin on Jun 20, 2015 6:17:43 GMT
mishka... i was playing since the beginning, though i learned of the game in 1988. my friends had the original red box. i'd say maps already existed by that time. so it was just a question of knowing how to get them.
as for gridless tiles... of course they were back then we had no figures, we had tokens and a map to get a visual, back then it was just that. a visual to help define where things were. my friends and i were using them to show only. we were like i got there and would simply point to the map. no tokens, no minis... just our mind and the map to show what we did.
|
|
|
Post by michka on Jun 21, 2015 0:09:10 GMT
DnDPaladin, you do get that I was joking, right? It's a bit of hyperbole. There have been miniatures in gaming well before Dungeons and Dragons existed. I just noticed how any discussion of the old days brings out the old man in many of us. My self included.
|
|
|
Post by DnDPaladin on Jun 21, 2015 1:42:56 GMT
we had minis back in 1980ies ?!! news to me ! i thought people were playing with little tokens !!!
by the way, this is no sarcasm, this is serious, i really didn't know about minis of old.
|
|
|
Post by michka on Jun 21, 2015 14:11:34 GMT
Without getting too far into the history of D&D, and all the people involved, Dungeons and Dragons started out as a modification of the Chainmail wargames rules published in 1971. This was only one of many miniatures wargames that had been around for many, many, many years. In fact the granddaddy of all miniatures wargames in a book called Little Wars written by none other then H.G. Wells in 1913. Back in Well's day the games were played with toy soldiers.
This history gets pretty convoluted, and I'm not expert enough to write much more then this. There are many websites dedicated to researching the history of D&D.
|
|
|
Post by skunkape on Jun 24, 2015 12:54:22 GMT
I have a bunch of the old school gridded tiles. Most of them still in the boxes. I really need to see what I have, though I'm not to interested in using them really as I prefer gridless myself!
|
|
|
Post by Tattered King on Nov 20, 2015 20:17:13 GMT
not sure if I had them or my friend had them, but yes, we had them. When I ran Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, I made my own and laid the map of the space ship out on the living room floor...
|
|
|
Post by ogrestamp on Nov 21, 2015 8:26:59 GMT
I remember Expedition to the Barrier Peaks. I loved that module. I lost it over the years (I suspect one of my friends borrowed it to look at it and never gave it back). Now that would be a fun campaign to run with our crafting skills today.
I also started out on those clear plastic sheets with the one inch graph paper underneath and all those grease pencils. Whenever we would get to a lower level in a dungeon, we would have to start the backbreaking process of scrubbing the grease pencil markings off the plastic. A few years later my friend came up with the brilliant idea to buy another piece of plastic. Man, we were young.
|
|
|
Post by voodoo on Feb 1, 2016 3:40:00 GMT
been playing dnd since the red box and i dont even remember tpk that we liked... all i remember from that time was my best friends mother goblin voice ! you have to imitate your friends mother's goblin voice in your next video hahaha that would be classic!
|
|
|
Post by DnDPaladin on Feb 1, 2016 5:38:56 GMT
been playing dnd since the red box and i dont even remember tpk that we liked... all i remember from that time was my best friends mother goblin voice ! you have to imitate your friends mother's goblin voice in your next video hahaha that would be classic! i, unfortunately, wouldn'T be able to do that. my voice is kinda childish when i try. hers wasn'T !
|
|