Geeks rule.

[kickaha]

I have a buddy who is teaching his young daughters math skills by... playing AD&D. Temple of Elemental Evil, no less. Srsly old skool. (They're loving it, btw.)

He decided he needed hex paper. He couldn't find cheap hex paper anywhere. He found pricey hex paper, but not cheap.

So, being a geek... he made his own. With proper numbering. And 30-hex uberhexes.

With PostScript.

And a text editor.



Edit: For those of you not using a browser with embedded PDF support, try... http://www.ncpod.org/Shared/hexpaper.pdf


I am in awe.

Comments

[lirrin.livejournal.com]

Picture no worky. I am sad.

[badger.livejournal.com]

If I thought you hadn't seen it, I'd link to the /. story yesterday about techie personality types and D&D.

[jason0x21.livejournal.com]

You mean there's some other way to do it?

[labrown.livejournal.com]

Waaa... no picture... Me want picture...

I used to dabble in writing postscript code. It was like LOGO turtlegraphics on steroids.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Campaign Cartographer (at http://www.profantasy.com/ ) can easily be used to generate numbered hex paper, at any desired scale, with any number of levels of uberhexing.

When I still had access to a full-size roll plotter, I used CC to do full-on, table-sized maps of every encounter I ran. It was awesome. One of the should-haves for my next employer is a plotter--8.5x11 just doesn't cut it anymore.

Yes, I know the point is "how cool is it that someone out there still codes in raw PostScript", and that coding PostScript is immensely less expensive than buying the CC suite.

[cthulhim.livejournal.com]

I just use a program called (IIRC) GraphPaperPlotter, that generates lots of various regular and non-regular (logarithmic, e.g.) grids.

I suppose I could do it in PS if I were so inclined. I like LaTeX for word processing, after all.