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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Woas" data-source="post: 3430907" data-attributes="member: 16317">I like my over-land type maps to just be plain like real maps but with a basic scale to keep things easy: something like 1 inch = 30 miles - or roughly a days travel. Or something like that.For indoor floor plans for dungeons and other 'encounter' areas I use grids. Mostly one square = 5'. but sometimes if its a big place and I want to fit it all on one sheet of paper I'll do one square = 10'.I have a question for the hex users. What do the hexes actually do for you? Just an alternate way of setting a scale for the map? Just tradition? I wonder because maps of our world are not hexed... if anything grid if you count the lat-long type boxes that maps sometimes have. So unless theres a whole community of hex-grided road maps of the USA out there I'm not aware of, it seems like the hex map is a function of D&D/RPG maps only. And I'm wondering why.</blockquote>