 Re-scaling maps, 1"=5' is good for D20 but...... |
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 Dec 21 2008, 05:20 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 292 Joined: 21-February 07 Member No.: 11,050  |
OK I got my self some modern day maps that will work great as locations for Shadowrun but they're all in the standard 1 square/inch=5' grid format. Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas of what measurements/scale I should use to show meters or would it be easier to use the maps as a guild to re do them altogether.
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Dec 21 2008, 06:00 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 7,089 Joined: 4-October 05 Member No.: 7,813 |
probably the easiest thing to do is just treat each square as being 1.5 meters. (1.5 meters is about 59 ", or 4'11"... should be close enough for most purposes)
if you want to do diagonals, i would say treat a diagonal as 2 meters. (they're actually a little more than 2.1 meters, but you can just assume that rather than being a perfect diagonal the person will generally cut corners) |
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Dec 21 2008, 03:50 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,328 Joined: 2-April 07 From: The Center of the Universe Member No.: 11,360 |
For simplicity's sake, I usually do 1" = 2 meters (with 25mm figs) if I do it free form. Being a table top mini's gamer I find the square system from D&D too restricting at times. While not exact it is close enough.
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Dec 21 2008, 05:01 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 289 Joined: 20-February 04 From: in the matrix Member No.: 6,091 |
QUOTE (Fabe @ Dec 21 2008, 12:20 AM)  OK I got my self some modern day maps that will work great as locations for Shadowrun but they're all in the standard 1 square/inch=5' grid format. Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas of what measurements/scale I should use to show meters or would it be easier to use the maps as a guild to re do them altogether. are these maps you produced or ones you acquired? if you produced them yourself, you can change the scaling fairly easily (or should be) in the tool you created them. If you acquired them, then do as Jaid said and change the scale as they suggested. dx |
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Dec 30 2008, 07:20 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 150 Joined: 5-April 04 Member No.: 6,219 |
QUOTE (Fabe @ Dec 21 2008, 12:20 AM) OK I got my self some modern day maps that will work great as locations for Shadowrun but they're all in the standard 1 square/inch=5' grid format. Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas of what measurements/scale I should use to show meters or would it be easier to use the maps as a guild to re do them altogether. Mostly agreed with Jaid, 2" = 3m. However, I'd ignore the grid entirely and use short rulers to determine distance moved. |
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Dec 30 2008, 10:23 AM
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Moving Target Group: Validating Posts: 664 Joined: 7-October 08 From: South-western UCAS border... Member No.: 16,449 |
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