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For over a year now, I’ve been enjoying playing (mostly as the Dungeon Master or DM) with the new D&D 5e rules. My history with the game, however, began with the Basic Set in 1979-1980; in addition to the single rulebook and low-quality dice tucked inside the box was a module, B2 Keep on the Borderlands. This module (and many more like it) offered the details the DM would need to run the adventure, including the removable cover that contained the maps for the DM to reference and use to provide descriptions to the players such as the dimensions of a room or the distance to cross a bridge. Large laminated mats weren’t a common site at most gaming tables, but letter-sized sheets of graph paper (with baby-blue lines) were; players were often tasked with creating their own map of their travels, especially for underground dungeons, and graph paper was sometimes an option. So, while the DM had a nice bird’s-eye-view of the dungeon or caves or other structure or terrain, (as well as text descriptions in the module booklet) players typically had to rely on their imagination when hearing a room or cave described, for example.

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This table describes all the Dungeon Tiles sets released by Wizards of the Coast for Dungeons & Dragons. The gallery links show the front and back sides of the tiles. The gallery links show the front and back sides of the tiles. Download DT4 - Dungeon Tiles Set 4 - Ruins of the Wild.pdf uploaded on Save Download, 2010-09-14T20:13:36.000Z, size: 17.1 MB DT4 - Dungeon Tiles Set 4 - Ruins of the Wild.pdf Save Download Toggle navigation.

Being a DM in those early days involved mostly what is referred to as theater-of-the mind (TOTM) basically asking the players to visualize scenes, creatures, and combat and providing answers to their questions. I can recall a time in the early ’80s when I began seeing more and more miniatures; most often they were used to help the players and DM visualize marching orders or positioning during combat, but a few crafty DMs could be spotted providing hand-drawn rooms or maps for the players to place their miniatures. But for the very early days of D&D play (at least in my corner of the world), the traditional D&D games consisted of TOTM and players drawing their own maps as they explored the world. Note: One of my earliest memories of seeing miniatures used in real combat gaming was at a sandbox table at (if memory serves) a local gaming convention in Pensacola, FL, where a group of wargamers had set up a large ping-pong sized table with buildings and a river and other obstacles.

I believe it was a Napoleon-era style battle based on the painted uniform jackets and hats and the players had obviously gone to great lengths to create this beautiful miniature battlefield. I believe my seeing that tiny battlefield and all its details has greatly influenced my role as DM and why I’m not a traditional TOTM gamer. Today, many DMs still rely on TOTM; it’s a tried-and-true method of storytelling and many players prefer this kind of play with its typically speedier gameplay and minimal expenditure.

But even in those early days of D&D, it didn’t take long for gaming aids to appear for both players and DMs. In the early and mid ’80s, my most frequent source for ideas and inspiration came from Dragon magazine (or The Dragon for very early issues that I never owned). Tucked in those pages were adventures, new classes and spells and monsters, and plenty of articles for DMs looking for something new to toss at their players. And mixed in with all this content were the advertisements, too. Most of them were often out of my price range — I was in middle school when I began playing D&D, and I was too young to have a job other than mowing lawns — or not relevant to my gaming needs.

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But there were a number of advertisements that always managed to catch my eye – these were the ones related to 2D mapping or creating floor plans for gameplay. I was always on the lookout for ways to bring the game to life with my players and these always caught my eye. So, what kinds of 2D terrain aids were becoming available for players and DMs? Let’s take a look. Note: The advertisements below were found in The Dragon/Dragon magazine.

There may very well have been earlier instances of these adverts in other sources such as self-published zines or media local to the particular businesses. Legacy Products The first notable instance of a game aid that I could find was from the Imperium Publishing Company – It was called Netherworld and sold for $6.95 (1977 USD).

Described as the “First Three-Dimensional, Geomorphic Underworld Construction Kit For Assembly And Take-Down DURING Adventuring,” the image showed a rectangular shaped dungeon (actually requiring two kits). While technically a 3D terrain kit, I’m including this one here simply for being what I believe to be the first terrain game aid for sale in The Dragon magazine as well as the fact that the walls looks sufficiently low to almost qualify as 2.5D (which will be discussed a bit later in the modern product section below). Advertisement for Netherworld, The Dragon #11, December 1977 A better quality image of the same two-kit dungeon was later spotted in The Dragon #14, May 1978. Advertisement for Netherworld, The Dragon #14, May 1978 I have looked high and low for a boxed set of Netherworld, but have had little luck. From the images, it looks like this was a fairly sturdy set of cardstock floors and walls. The advert does state that the dungeon in the image consists of two kits, and I’m counting only 7 or 8 rooms and 2-3 hallways, so this appears to have been one of those kits where you’d need four or five of them to create a rather large dungeon. It’s also difficult to tell from the image how you would have built lengthy hallways that led to single rooms; the sample dungeon seems to indicate that connected, rectangular dungeons were the limits of the kit.

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Note: If you have any first-hand experience with any of the products mentioned here, please do share. For the last few seasons of Adventurer’s League, I’ve turned to for many adventures. I typically make black-and-white photocopies (oversized) using a special copier at the print shop and then use these to hand-draw any special maps I may need. This kind of blank grid map, however, has been around for some time in many sizes and brand names. The earliest advertisement I could find was for a product simply called Campaign Map from Indicia Associates.

Not a bad deal, either — $1.10 (1979 USD) for a 22″ x 34″ or $1.95 for a 34″ x 44″ sheet. Campaign Map product, The Dragon #29, September 1979 My best guess is these were printed on paper and not laminated. And since shipping costs were extra, they were probably only affordable if you bought them in large quantities. I personally never saw any sheets this large used in the early ’80s; instead, I did see some DMs taping together numerous 8.5×11 sheets of graph paper together and drawing rooms and tunnels as oversized terrain on them.

Still, I could easily see how beneficial these flat sheets could have been to DMs (and I’d love to have one in my collection if I could ever find one). Someone at Dragon magazine must have been keeping their eye on these new products, because in issue #45 (January 1981), the magazine offered up The Dragon Dungeon Design Kit.

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With three pages of text instruction and eight pages of cardstock printings containing chests, tables, walls, and more, DMs were given a nice little (and inexpensive) kit to layout rooms for players to examine and place miniatures if they had them: Players can enter a detailed, furnished room, instead of being given a “mere” verbal description of what they have encountered. The ability to visualize your character’s surroundings is something that greatly enhances a player’s enjoyment of a role-playing game, and we feel that players can more easily get into the spirit of adventuring if the images they’re visualizing are taken out of the mind’s eye and spread out right in front of them. – Dragon #45, January 1981, page 38 The Dragon Dungeon Design Kit, Dragon #45, January 1981 DMs and players could purchase extra sheets (up to two per person) for $2/sheet from Dragon magazine. Game clubs were encouraged to combine the kits from multiple copies of the magazine to create a larger collection of components (over 100 double-sided chits were provided per issue).

Many of the components are printed on both sides. In general, items constructed of metal and/or stone are represented on one side, and things made of wood and other materials are shown on the other side.There are enough linear feet of wall sections to build a 100-foot-square room or the equivalent thereof, not counting the space taken up by doors or passageways which lead through walls. The wall sections come pre-measured in scale sizes ranging from five feet to 50 feet long (one inch to 10 inches actual measurement) – Dragon #45, January 1981, page 38 Dungeon Design Kit, Dragon #45, January 1981 Two months later, a black-and-white advert for a similar but more polished kit would appear for sale.

Dungeon Tiles by Task Force Games offered up over seventy 2″ x 2″ colored terrain tiles along with a few oversized rooms and a large collection of punch-out chits that represented things such as fire, chair, and blood plus small slips of paper to represent ladders, bridges, and tables. Dungeon Tiles, Dragon #47, March 1981 The first thing you might notice when you begin to put the tiles together to form hallways and rooms is that they’re not perfectly aligned when it comes to walls and corners. Some tiles have black borders on all sides, requiring a door chit to be placed to indicate passage from one area to another. There are a lot of duplicate tiles displaying the same broken sword or bone fragment, and the ground is a solid brown with large stones representing the floor.

There is no variation in floor material, although there are a few spiral staircase tiles. Surprisingly, the card stock material lays flat easily enough although a good sneeze or cough would likely send a piece or two flying. While this is clearly a perfect example of a product in its infancy, I think credit must be given for providing something that brings players and DMs a step closer to more realistic scenes and allows for miniatures, creatures, and other special items to be placed to give a better idea of relative positions. The Dungeon Tiles box Also tucked into the box was a 4-page set of ‘Rules for Use’ with the following instructions: DUNGEON TILES are not intended to be used for dioramas or displays (although they could be used to good effect for that purpose).

Those Dragon magazine ads really took me back. I too wondered about those products when I relied solely on Waldenbooks to find role playing products. I just wanted to mention Games Workshop UK’s excellent series of floor plans, Dungeon Rooms, Dungeon Lairs and Dungeon Caverns. They were collected into one 48 page book in 1990 titled Warhammer Dungeon Floor Plans.

They suffer from the same problem of depicting odds and ends that the DM might not want included in their room description. I owned the set and got many miles out of them.

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Another very nice D&D tile set: Streets of Shadow. It has town streets, houses and a complete sewer system! But it's 46Mb big. So I can't upload it sadly.