Hexes or Squares?

[Jeremy757]

What are you people living in the Stone Age. Why do you need hex OR squares. get you a ruler, get you some dry erase markers, and go to your local Hobby Lobby and by some sheets of dry erase poster board for $1.25 a sheet and have at it. One inch equals five feet. The dry erase poster boards last forever. Dont constrain yourselves with artificial grids any more. Think outside the box.

 

[Ranger REG]

For those who use gaming maps when playing, what do you use, hexes or squares?

Depends on which game I'm playing. But the game standard is usually hex. RPG? Prior to d20, no grid.

For d20 players, do you use hexes or squares? (E.g., does anyone who plays 3.5 D&D use hex maps instead of squares?)

Squares. Somebody should have thought of this way before wargame is invented. It's one of those thing where you just smack your forehead and say, "Gee! Now why didn't I think of that?" Like the clapper or urinal cake.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I use squexes.

 

[francisca]

Squares inside, hexes outside.

The Auld Grump

Me too, at least in the game I DM.

We use hexes for everything in the game that I am a player in.

 

[Laslo Tremaine]

I played Champions almost exclusively from 1980-1999. All of my battlemats had hexes on them.

When we started playing 3e, we got a square grid battlemat and used that from 2000-2003. I switched back to hexes when I decided to run RttToEE and everybody seemed pretty happy for it. Then for xmas I got a deluxe Tac-Tiles set and the combination of dry-erase and modular design has switched us back to squares. But as soon as they come out with a hex-grid set, I will be all over that!

 

[hero4hire]

Using hexes for combat reminds me too much of Champions.

 

[Panthanas]

Hexes all the way! The ONLY way!

...mostly due to the fact that I only have a hex mat. Oh well...it works just fine and dandy for my group. They love the hexes.

 

[CalicoDave]

When I DM we use squares. Under our current DM we use hexes.

The more we use hexes the more I don't like it. I'd rather use squares. Hexes make drawing regularly shaped rooms much to difficult. Then to try to determine if the bad guys is against a wall and people want to flank, what hexes do they need to be in.

 

[Berandor]

What are offset squares?

 

[MerakSpielman]

What are offset squares?

They're layed row-by-row like bricks, so each row is half a square offset from the previous row. Each square is adjacent to 6 other squares.

I would have used this except I made my own big battlemat out of a sheet of plexiglass, and it was time consuming enough just to use a T-square and make a 1" grid.