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Mearls   This week, I’m tackling miniatures.  A Very Brief Look
at Very Small Figures  Almost continuously since the mid-70s,
D&D has featured an official line of miniature figures for
fighters, dwarves, beholders, zombies, and almost everything in
between. After all, Dungeons & Dragons sprang from the
miniatures wargaming scene of the early 1970s. Yet while
miniatures have always existed in some form with the game, not
all gamers have embraced them. For every DM who owns shelf upon
shelf of plastic and metal miniatures, there are others who
absolutely refuse to let them hit the table.  “Miniatures help
us visualize the action and keep everything sorted,” a minis
user will tell you.  “Miniatures limit the imagination and
compete with the DM’s description,” the anti-minis DM counter.
Complicating matters, the official rules for D&D have varied
over the years in how they treat miniatures. In earlier
editions, miniatures primarily served to indicate