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<blockquote data-quote="Christian" data-source="post: 3668473" data-attributes="member: 381">I've always had a slight preference for hexes over square grids in general, but I'd never actually seen them in play until I joined my current group. It's really grown on me ... It does take some getting used to, and there are a lot of conventions defined by squares that need to be re-worked for the hex grid. I think the key is to identify &amp; resolve them before the game starts, so you're not having to wrangle over them during the session. When my druid cast Spike Stones, I knew exactly how I had to draw out the area of effect on our grid.I'm not entirely happy with our rules for flanking Large &amp; larger creatures--I think it's made a bit too easy--but it's simpler than my proposed solution, which is probably a good thing in gameplay.A quick hint for measuring distances: a hex-to-hex zigzag path between two hexes that aren't along a line of hexes, has the same length as the sum of either of the two pairs of straight-hex lines intersecting at 120 degrees that connect them. The proof is left as an exercise for the student. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Christian, post: 3668473, member: 381"] I've always had a slight preference for hexes over square grids in general, but I'd never actually seen them in play until I joined my current group. It's really grown on me ... It does take some getting used to, and there are a lot of conventions defined by squares that need to be re-worked for the hex grid. I think the key is to identify & resolve them before the game starts, so you're not having to wrangle over them during the session. When my druid cast Spike Stones, I knew exactly how I had to draw out the area of effect on our grid. I'm not entirely happy with our rules for flanking Large & larger creatures--I think it's made a bit too easy--but it's simpler than my proposed solution, which is probably a good thing in gameplay. A quick hint for measuring distances: a hex-to-hex zigzag path between two hexes that aren't along a line of hexes, has the same length as the sum of either of the two pairs of straight-hex lines intersecting at 120 degrees that connect them. The proof is left as an exercise for the student. :) [/QUOTE]

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