Do you take the size of your setting into consideration, Veeky Forums? Do you keep your settings very small, like Vatican City, or do you go bigger, like Russia or even a whole continent? Has this scale gotten in the way before, or do you guys not care?
Size in Your Settings
Zachary Phillips
Robert Thompson
This image is pretty misleading. Compare Africa to Asia or one of the Americas and you;ll see they're of similar size.
Ryder Myers
You tell me
Carter Taylor
What's the area of one of those hexagons? A square meter? An acre? A square mile?
Ryder Evans
As much as I like Grimwyrd, I've gotta say I hate hexmaps like that.
Cameron Phillips
Probably the biggest problem we've ever had in my group. We used to switch the seat of GM every couple of sessions and so the worldbuilding was done either collectively when we were together or individually with each different GM. Turns out we all had very very different views on the scale of our world and we ended up retconning this particular aspect of the world A LOT. I was mostly the one responsible for this mayhem because I wanted the world to feel really huge and also make sense. So it turned from the size of approximately England to the size of an actual continent. Thankfully my group and I being close friends, it never devolved into an actual argument.
We were new to the hobby and really didn't think about this aspect until later. It turns out geography defines basically everything so scales are a big deal, at least for me.
Austin Mitchell
All it three hexes on clear ground to a day's distance travelled.
Amen; this is a reduced file size render. The full map is cleaner than this... Less cluttered to fuck. Just 15 MB
Xavier Moore
>Do you take the size of your setting into consideration, Veeky Forums?
Yes.
>Do you keep your settings very small, like Vatican City
Setting covers an area about the size of modern Germany
Jordan Cooper
Yeah I'm in the same boat. I usually play in a setting about the size of Asia because the sheer size of the continent means there's so much potential for adventures. You got wendigos way up north, gnolls in the deserts in the continent's exterior, merfolk living in the huge inland lake, dinosaurs in the archipelago off the southeastern coast, and so on. So many stories to be told and mysterious places to be explored.
John Cook
continent's interior I meant