Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[Tuesday]

Sorry, we're inveterate geeks.

Which MIGHT have been given away by the fact that we're online, talking about a roleplaying game, but you never know.

[Wendigo1870]

[Patrick]

[fanchergw]

I usually play on my hex grid battlemat that I bought a couple decades ago. Still in very good condition.

Gordon

[obatron]

I use Tact-Tiles (http://bc-products.net/)...and since they don't have a hex version yet, I use squares.

[Mr.Joel]

In theory we use hexes for outdoors (because there's no diagonal issue) and squares for indoors and dungeons (because the layouts tend to be square). In practice, once one of our several Chessex Multiple Mega-Mats is down, we just keep using that one, writing on it with whiteboard markers. And of course we have tons of WorldWorks scenery and our GM's apparently infinite supply of minis.

Re: Time based on 12 and math based on 60. These numbers are not arbitrary (and have nothing to do with months in a year). 12 is the lowest number divisible by 2, 3, and 4, not to mention 6. 60 (12 x 5) is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. So when you want units that can be split nicely into a lot of fractions, something apparently important to ancient cultures, you go with 12 and its multiples. Think about how "20 minutes" is a universally-understood increment of time; you can't do that with decimal, because it's a third of an hour.

thus ends Science Hour for today kids

[lordthrog]

OT: I just want to add fuel to the fire on distances et al. There is a standard unit of measurement for large distances here in the US. The Football Field. For example, the USS North Carolina is 900-some-odd feet long, that's slightly longer than 3 football fields. Of course it helps to know that a football field is 100 yards long without the end zones.

Back on topic, my group uses a Cheesex square battlemat. We don't worry about the diagonals, that not FFF.
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[Preatori0us]

Football fields being used as a measurements isn't as bad as "a rhubarb's length". Yes I've heard it.

hex grids annoy the crap outta me, but I have no reason for it. We only use minis if the scrum is a little too big, or in special situations where we need to know exactly where everyone is.
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[Ian]

I use a hex grid virtually all the time and use free form only whjen I want things to be confusing or the characters can not close with the enemy. Ian

[Stephen Peto]

Wiggy wrote:

[The Angle]

Hex grids are best for outdoors, caverns, and any other place with irregular outlines. Square grids are best for towns and other unnatural, rectilinear places. Since I don't require pieces to be neatly positioned on the grid but use it more for eyeball measurement, it doesn't matter much to me. For years, however, my favorite RPG was The Fantasy Trip (which evolved into GURPS). It used a hex grid for everything, so I have a soft spot for hexes.

Steve
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[Lord Inar]

I've been using hexes since I first got Melee/Wizard from Metagaming in 1979 and I never looked back!