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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 3432063" data-attributes="member: 463">5' (not 10') squares for indoors - BTW I think thinking in 5' scale seems to create much more plausible dungeons etc than 10' scale does, you get far fewer 180' chambers.After a long time hexless I'm coming to re-experience the joys of hexes for overland mapping, thanks to the free Arr-Kelan mapping software I use.  Scales I like for hexes:For my game world Ea100 miles/hex - continental scale50 miles/hex - chunk of continent with major nations10 miles/hex - the largest 'local' scale, suits high-level adventuring; can feel cramped though5 miles/hex - a nice organic scale for lower level adventuring, feels far more spacious than 10 m/hex1.5 to 2 miles/hex - for local area mapping of what's around your castle100 yards/hex - tactical battlefield scaleEdit: For my Wilderlands campaign I'm using the published setting at 15 miles/hex rather than the official 5 miles/hex - the world was designed originally at 15/hex and it shows.15/hex is similar to the 10/hex I use for my homebrew world, with similar benefits.  It worls much better than Greyhawk's 30 miles/hex, which I don't like at all.  I also think Mystara's 24 miles/hex is too big for a local-scale map and too small for a general campaign overview map.</blockquote>