Staggered squares fix the Pythagoras problem, but then you have ugly flattened hexes anyway.
What hexagons do really really well and non-staggered squares do very badly: Give true ranges unless you go all Pythagorean. That one case? Impossible on hexes, but rectangles are easy to draw on hex grids. Diagram based emc powerpath migration enabler host copy I do it all the time when I use a grid in my Savage Worlds games - a hex grid is just easier in every way but one than squares. Simply draw a square on the hex grid by counting off the hexes for the corners and assemble your compass rose from there. Always great to consider WHY we do what we do in the hobby. Luckily, his wife is also a GM, providing him with time on both sides of the screen. Estimations of distance is quick and easy without any weirdness in the angles, so it can be used either as is or using the grid for your own reference only. Instead, choose a scale you like for travel and scale up and down by whatever factor works best for you. Turns out the best set are 3, 12, and 48, though the numbers on 48 are fudged a bit and the difference in scale between 3 and 12 could be larger.įor ease, here are a handful of clean square grid sizes with useful dimensions. I had some trouble with scaling the 5 mile grid up and down at first. A 5 mile square is 25 sq miles as opposed to 31 for the 6 mile hexis 2. There they discuss the measurements of a 6 mile hex, that a 6 mile hex is about the limit of visual range, so you can see out of it only if you find a high vantage point, and discuss breaking it down into sub-hexes. Using it for overland maps has the same advantages of the hex map, but also has the following advantages. That solution is the standard graph paper grid. It also requires either huge paper or a ton of eyeballing or scanning, resizing etc… on a computer to zoom in or out in scale.
Who cares, right? This discards those three advantages of hex mapping listed above. As usual, rather than actually prep, I find it much more useful and productive to agonize and fret over how exactly I should go about prepping until the desire to prep fades away.
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