D&D 5E Good place for 5 hex to 1" paper online?

[Wik]

Hey all.

Trying to find a place where I can print hex paper so I can map out a campaign site. The DMG recommends using hex paper sized at 5 hexes to 1", which makes a lot of sense. I've searched using the googles, and while I found a few, they wind up being more like 3 hexes to an inch, which adds up over time and isn't exactly what I'm looking for.

I mean, it's good, and I'll take it, but I'm wondering if you guys know of a better source.

5 hexes to an inch, or more! And no sites that require a paywall where I have to print them off. I'll pay for a pad of graph paper or something, but would prefer free because I'm cheap like that.

 

[Scorpio616]

http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/hexagonal/ ?

 

[Wik]

Thank you. PERFECT.

 

[designbot]

http://www.enworld.org/forum/rpgdownloads.php?do=download&downloadid=1237

When I made these, I found that to get the scales to match up right within printable boundaries, you actually need 7.5 hexes per inch.

Here's what 5 hexes per inch looks like, though.

 

[Wik]

Viewed and Saved, and will use - I don't mind having to rejigger things a bit for campaign use. MUCH better than my current 3 hexes to an inch scale.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

Old topic, but it's pretty much what I was looking for.

The question I have is if there was/is any sort of page size standard for these sorts of things. The DMG mentions sheets of hex paper with 5 hexes to an inch like it's "a thing." You know, something that we would know what is being talked about, or at the minimum could ask an old school gamer or wargamer, and this is some sort of standard they would recognize.

So, is/was it? I'd really like to know what size paper this scale is supposed to be on. Did they have in mind 8.5" by 11", and was a margin assumed? That's the sort of stuff I need to know to understand what advice the DMG is actually giving.

 

[Staffan]

I remember that way, way back in the day (80s, when there was a Swedish translation of Basic and Expert D&D) I bought a pad of hex paper from the people doing the translation. I'm guessing they imported it, probably from TSR or some other US source. I think those were 5 mm hexes (which is the same as 5 hexes/inch, or at least within a rounding error of the same). The paper was probably US Letter or A4 size.

Edit: You also had the 1e and 2e FR boxed sets (as well as Al-Qadim - and possibly others, but those are the ones I had) which came with poster maps and plastic hex overlays. The overlays had 5 hexes to an inch, although I suspect that was mostly an adaption to a previous standard.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

Okay, I ran across what seems to be (kinda) the answer to my question.

In a different part of the 5e DMG, it refers to an area 50 miles across for mapping purposes, which would mean at least 10" in one direction. In another area it refers to the kingdom scale map as being 6 miles to a hex, and says that it is about the size of Great Britain, or half the size of California. The map would give us a 300 miles across, which is little too small for width, and way to small for height, but 10" and 50 hexes is significantly larger than I was expecting, so it's at least closer to that area than the other options. (There is also a spot that refers to a 180 mile across area as possibly defining the the area you are detailing on a map of that scale...which is really inconsistent, so I'm discarding that statement).

That would also put continent scale at 3000 miles across, which it a pretty good size. So I'm most likely going to go with 50 hexes across. I'll shrink the size of the hexes if I need to print it so I can make the area square, but one could make it work with say 8" across the other direction to print it on letter sized paper.