(TFT) Outdoor Scale - Request for Comments

["David Peterson" <peterson@vigyan.com>]

Greetings!  Thanks, those of you have posted recently, for making the TFT list lively and interesting.  I have really enjoyed your posts.  

In the process of working out my current wilderness campaign, I have been trying to work out a wilderness map scale that makes sense to me.  I would be grateful to anyone who has a minute to share their own solutions to this problem, or who has comments on my work-in-progress.

The wilderness scale offered in TFT:ITL is 20m per hex for the Village map and 12.5 km per hex for the regional map.  The advantage of this is that the 20m hex can be drawn neatly with megahexes.  I have a real problem working with 12.5 km regional hexes, however.  I am pretty badly metricly challenged and have trouble visualizing it.  

I am using 1970's Judges Guild campaign maps in my current TFT campaign (#10 Lenap, to be precise).  Here is the solution I came up with:   use 16m per hex for village-scale maps.  The JG campaign hexagon system maps have 25 little hexes across each larger hex.  See http://www.judgesguild.com/pdf/campaignhexes.pdf for an example.  If you use a 16m hex at village level, your next level up is a 400m hex.  JG called this "Grand Tactical" level.  The next level up is a 10 km hex on the campaign map.  This distorts the 5-mile-per-hex scale that JG intended, but the change is acceptable.  

Meanwhile back in the TFT system, a 16m village hex is four megahexes across.  This can be neatly drawn, but the 16m village hex to Melee hex drawing doesn't come out so neatly.  Oh well.  

On to travel time and distance.  ITL suggests that a party on foot can travel up to 50 km per day by road and about 25 km per day off-road through light woods.  Does anyone have any experience that would suggest if this is reasonable?  It seems a little high to me.  

Thanks for all comments and suggestions!

David Peterson

PS:  If you are interested, you can see the new re-make of the Lenap campaign map here:  http://www.judgesguild.com/pdf/lenap/lenap.pdf



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