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Hi all, I have been creating some hexagonal tiles for a space game we are playing. I am just curious as to people thoughts who have used hextiles in the past. IIt seems to be a 50/50 like and hate thing with them.

The games I have been playing use them as huge hexes int he first game that can be put together to make scenery. The other game uses small rough 1 inch hexes for measurement.

Just curious as to people views. The seem to be better for space based and seas based games to me whereas I have not seen dundeon crawlers use them at all.

Any views?

I haven't seen dungeoncrawlers using hexes since mage-knight.

They were a thing for D&D back in the day, but even then, the dungeons tended to be drawn up on square grids.

Last game I saw being played on hexes was Battletech.

I like hexes for a lot of purposes however I am fine with squares for dungeons.

Corridors and rooms are generally rectangular, so the hex grid pattern does not fit.

You can use a grid of 50% offset rows of squares. It works out the same as a hex grid for counting distances, and looks and works better for square corners.