Sub-tropical – Four distinct seasons, with a short, warm winter.Temperate – Four distinct seasons, each of roughly equal duration.Sub-arctic – Four distinct seasons, with a short, cool summer.While not exact, the guidelines below are sufficient for our purposes: For example, if you’re placing forest, climate indicates what type of growth exists (e.g., conifers in cold climes, deciduous in temperate, or jungle in tropical areas).
This affects the precise terrain you place in the next step.
The sub-hex template is now available in Hexographer format on the Hex Templates page. This makes the template’s larger, atlas-scale, hexes 25 miles wide.Īs you work on the sub-hex template, keep the large hex boundaries in mind, as it’ll make life easier when you expand the map and scale up to the atlas level. The sub-hex map from our Hex Templates post (shown at right) is a good start, at a scale of 5 miles per sub-hex. The underlying goal of Hex-based Campaign Design is to create a playable setting with as little effort as possible, so I recommend starting with a small map.
