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<blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 4882039" data-attributes="member: 55178">It makes more sense to have bursts and blasts follow the &quot;expanding hex&quot; route, doesn't it? Burst: pick a hex and count outward by the burst number. 
Blast: an area describe by a row of hexes equal to the blast number.
Yikes, I had never actually thought about the headaches that a 3-dimensional hex grid brought to the table... &nbsp;You could do it like Nifft was saying, and treat each level as an offset grid. It would be fine for counting out movement, but would probably leave visualizing where things were in the gird to be a bit of a head scratcher for most people. It would help to have people try to imagine it as a nested stack of spheres, but I still can't imagine most of the groups I play with being able to handle this bit of mental gymnastics.&nbsp;The &quot;normal&quot; answer to this that I usually see is to just keep each level of the grid the same as the one below it; but depending on what your reasons are for wanting to switch over to hexes, all this does is reintroduce the same problems you might already have with a square grid.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nytmare, post: 4882039, member: 55178"] It makes more sense to have bursts and blasts follow the "expanding hex" route, doesn't it? [INDENT]Burst: pick a hex and count outward by the burst number. Blast: an area describe by a row of hexes equal to the blast number. [/INDENT] Yikes, I had never actually thought about the headaches that a 3-dimensional hex grid brought to the table... You [I]could[/I] do it like Nifft was saying, and treat each level as an offset grid. It would be fine for counting out movement, but would probably leave visualizing where things were in the gird to be a bit of a head scratcher for most people. It would help to have people try to imagine it as a nested stack of spheres, but I still can't imagine most of the groups I play with being able to handle this bit of mental gymnastics. The "normal" answer to this that I usually see is to just keep each level of the grid the same as the one below it; but depending on what your reasons are for wanting to switch over to hexes, all this does is reintroduce the same problems you might already have with a square grid. [/QUOTE]

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