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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 8449087" data-attributes="member: 6777737">As a straight realistic answer:A 6 mile hex (measured side to side, or center point to next nearest center point) is about 31 square miles. The island here is about 24 hexes  tall by about 16 hexes wide, plus some peninsulas, so say 400 hexes. 400 hexes is 12,400 square miles of land area. That would make it the 42nd largest state in the US by land area, ahead of Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Hawaii, and Maryland. It's about three times the size of Puerto Rico, or 10 times the size of Long Island. It's almost exactly the same size as Taiwan, and it's bigger than Belgium and Albania.So, it's pretty big.Coincidentally, the city limits of my hometown is close the size of a single hex at just over 35 square miles.  It's a mostly suburban small town of ~45,000 people. It includes a large industrial area, some 50 churches, a dozen hotels, several major commercial centers, two decent size rivers, several small parks, two golf courses, three large cemeteries, a landfill, a library, a museum, a botanical garden, two theatres, two large water towers, 30 or 40 different apartment complexes, etc. It's large enough to have two high schools, two middle schools, and seven elementary schools. We could close a couple of those without the county beyond the city limits, but not that many. If you were looking for something the size of a woodshed, I would imagine it would take several days to conduct a thorough search of an area the size of the entire town even if it were in it's natural state of a mix of light forest and river wetlands. Difficult terrain like mountains, heavy forest or jungle, or something similar would likely take much longer.Travelling through a place of this size is in no way a thorough search of it. My hometown is bounded on two sides by about 12 miles of four lane limited access divided highway (i.e., an interstate) with four exits that lead to the town, and by a large you can't even see anything from that road. Neither of the two water towers in town are even visible from the highway.However, I agree with the others that it probably depends more one what's going on.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What are the PCs looking for? The remains of a single lost seaman? A large structure or tree visible from miles away? If it's small, it's going to take a long time. If you can see it from several miles away, it'll be much faster.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Is this intended to be a brute force hex crawl? If so, I'd stick to one hex = one day.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Are the PCs expected to do something other than brute force the search? Do they have special resources (i.e., information that they should have, people they know they should see) that would help? In that case, setting it to one hex = 2-3 days, doubled to 4-6 days for difficult terrain might work.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's also different if they can reliably fly all day, or if there's a ranger who won the favored terrain lottery. Depending on what they're looking for, that might help a lot.</li> </ul></blockquote>

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