Re: [HoE] Re: hoe-i'll miss my boxes

[darklord@dark-sky.net]

anyplace I could see a sample of one, I am one of those graphically inclined
gm's who makes up huge maps and prints them out on the plotter at work, had
some really good results so far, and a lot of the players have offered to map
out their favorite buildings in town so I could put them into my file, usually
I use a square grid, but I would like to see this hex grid and see how it works
out

Thanks in Advance,
--D

Allan Seyberth wrote:

> At 05:11 PM 4/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >I'm feeling slow today, what is a hex map?  Is it something used to help
> aid in
> >diagonal movement?
>
> Think of graph paper - only instead of squares, it uses hexes.  It allows a
> greater "range" of movement - reducing the effect of diagonal movement
> differences inherent in a square graph/map. (5 squares measured diagonally
> is longer than 5 squares horizontally or vertically).
>

> Allan Seyberth