Maps are done in 5 foot squares in 3rd and 4th editions of Dungeons and Dragons. If I remember correctly, they were done in 10 foot squares in earlier editions of D&D.

I am getting a little ahead of myself and I want to start designing an adventure before I order the Castles and Crusades books (I live in Korea so it will take a while). Could someone tell me if I should design my adventure using 10 foot squares or 5 foot squares? Thank you.

Even though Castles & Crusades doesn't really use the movement rules as presented in 3E or 4E, I;ve found using 5-foot squares on a battlemat works just as well.

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How are official Castles and Crusades adventures mapped? 10 foot squares?

When I played early editions of D&D I don't remember ever using battle maps but perhaps I just have a bad memory. I think everyone just said, "I attack the wounded orc" and we never really worried about where anyone was. Unless the orc was running for his life down the hallway or something.

Depends. Sometimes its 10, sometimes its 5, sometimes its more. It all boils down too how much map we need to get on a given sheet of paper, and the size of the paper.
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Thank you for the answer. I will try 10 foot squares at first and see how that goes.

In combat PC's can only move half their movement and attack. So that typically means 10 or 15 foot moves. 10 for halflings. gnomes, etc... 15 foot for humans, elves, and half orcs, etc...

So doing your stuff in 5 foot squares will probably work best. Otherwise your human sized PC's will be getting through only half a square a lot.

Now if you do it like I do, which is like 3E, and allow full moves of 20 and 30 feet, your 10 foot increments will likely work. Just realize that means they will only be able to move 2 or 3 squares, 4 or 6 on a charge.

So maybe play out a combat scenario with movement based on 5 foot squares, then on 10 foot squares, and see which you like better.
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Unless you use the encumbrance rules, in which case it's more complicated. And then there is the monk.

I find that 10-foot or 5-foot, it doesn't matter much in our case. We use tiles and figurines so figuring movement is easy whatever the way the place is mapped.
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I almost never use minis except when relative position is absolutely necessary so my hexes are usually only relavent to overland movement where they are a mile to 30 miles across.
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