Easy to scale the map up or down and put things roughly where they need to beīUT, in my case I don’t actually want to RUN a game on a hex map from the player’s point of view.Easy to judge density of points of interest, also due to the built in scale.
There are three main advantages to overland mapping with a hex map, as I see it: But at least this time I think I’ve actually gotten somewhere with it: namely I’ve decided on an alternative to overland mapping with a hex map. As usual, rather than actually prep, I find it much more useful and productive to agonize and fret over how exactly I should go about prepping until the desire to prep fades away.