Diagonal wonkiness scenarios

[Kwalish Kid]

I think at that point I'd just use a string.

And, honestly, it's using a piece of string that's the reason why 1-1-1 is so much better than any other option. Because using a piece of string is the easiest, simplest way to get accuracy resembling actual scale measurements. Because using a piece of string halts play while measurements are taken.

Without the care for such accuracy, people eyeball square shapes on square grids and move on with their game.

Sure, one can use other charts with other coordinate systems, but since most of the charts out there are square grids, 1-1-1 is going to be the most effective means of determining distance.

 

[Nytmare]

I've asked this before, but if I've gotten an answer, I've missed it in the mad shuffle that Enworld has been in for the last couple months.

What's the "proper" way to deal with larger than medium size things with hexes? Is it expanding triangles, or expanding hexes?

 

[Will]

Oddly enough, Unearthed Arcana has what you need for hexes.
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/adventuring/hexGrid.htm

It doesn't say anything about how to adjuticate walls cutting through hexes. I'm inclined to treat half-hexes as full ones and draw walls along the 'tips' on the other dimension and leave it at that.