Has Anyone Tried 4E Combats on a Hex Grid?

[Windjammer]

Here's something to consider. Belongs to 3.5, but its d20 after all.

Hex Grid :: d20srd.org

 

[Plane Sailing]

I would have thought it would play pretty much exactly the same, to be honest.

 

[Pbartender]

Tried it, found it too distracting trying to track movement of Large and larger creatures. Since I find battlemat play too distracting to begin with, that was a deal-breaker for me. I tried using hexes for outdoors/natural environments and squares for indoors, but these days I just use squares for everything.

If you can deal with Large creature movement, though, everything else works fine.

For creatures that are centered on an intersection, the easiest way is to look at it like the cities in Settlers of Catan... One "space" of movement moves the center of the creature to any of the six intersections that are two intersections away. Like so:

Here's something to consider. Belongs to 3.5, but its d20 after all.

Hex Grid :: d20srd.org

An interesting thought...

Blasts could be easily turned back into "cones" when using a hex grid. A Blast 3, for example, would simply be a triangle that has 3 hexes to a side.

 

[wedgeski]

Wow, that's... an awesome idea. I'll have to give that a shot some time. I'm sure it will be quite the curveball when I tell the PCs to take their stuff off the battlemat so I can flip it over.

Agreed, what a neat idea!