The Joy of Hex

 Who here loves HEX paper?

MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

I used to spend hours upon hours drawing maps, layouts and plans on hex paper pads purchased from game shops. I would selotape them together to make massive worlds, and then promptly losing interest in that world and start another one.

Happened all the time. For me, the joy was with the hex paper and the mapping, maps have always fascinated me. I was a member of my local mountain rescue team for a while and as a keen outdoorsman I can and do spend hours looking at maps. So to have a blank piece of hex paper and an overabundance of imagination fizzing away it was pure joy. Space maps, fantasy maps, town maps and dungeon layouts, all were possible and easy top use on HEX paper. 

I have not seen it in shops for a while, it's all gone virtual, but some kind soul sent me some pdf's of hex paper to print off and use again when I have time (that's the crux... time) to start planning adventures again.

What to do? The imagination I feel has been dulled by years of work drudgery and the need to be an adult, I would love to feel the same fizz again of ideas, of waking up buzzing to get started on a new world, new maps, new cities. That fire I am sure will come back.

The joy of HEX

Does anyone else still get the same thrill from using pens, pencils and HEX paper?