https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEIg1DlRkLg (3-mile hexes)
“An awareness of your surroundings makes you feel like you’re in a place.”
Local Area Maps: 1 hex = 3 miles = 1 league Good systems avoid fractions (half a day from here, 3/4 hex, this hex takes 4 days)
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Want smallest measurement of time to be 1 hour
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Want smallest measurement of distance to be 1 hex
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Roads: 1 Hour
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Plains or Hills: 2 Hours
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Bog or Forest: 4 Hours
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Mountains: 8 Hours
This creates the feeling of progress and meaningful decisions.
3 miles away, you can effectively see what lies in the next hex.
You stumble upon a wooden fort, you clear it out, and get a rough map that states there’s another dungeon in the nearby bog! You don’t know exactly where it’s at, but now you can go find it.