Hexcrawl - Unsorted Resources

[bryce0lynch]

On Hexploration, a closer look

It's been out for a while, I figured I'd talk about what's inside. This is an screen resolution example of a hex from the Hexplore serie...

hackslashmaster.blogspot.com

Hex Mapping and Resources

I have begun creating a hex map of Alnwich and the surrounding land. I am largely following the advice of The Welsh Piper and The Alexandr...

abovetheflatline.blogspot.com

Into the Wild... erlands

This is the system I'm using for hex crawling in the Wilderlands. It is primarily based on this Unearthed Arcana article , but it also d...

inplacesdeep.blogspot.com

[Review] Times That Fry Men's Souls

Times That Fry Men's Souls is a campaign setting written by Seann McAnally / Nerd Glows On . The weird historical setting lends it to...

eldritchfields.blogspot.com

Hexcrawl Dungeon

Hexcrawl Dungeon

www.therpgsite.com

Wilderness rules, a wishlist

I'm looking for a good set of wilderness travel rules. The setting of Signs in the Wilderness is a wide, poorly-explored country, where se...

signsinthewilderness.blogspot.com

Hexcrawling In Fassulia And Beyond

So I'm playtesting Lungfungus's Fassulia and it's going well so far, but I'd like to talk about some things I do with hexcrawls (or rather ...

wizzzargh.blogspot.com

North-West Marches - Travel Rules

Credit Eric J Fitch Hex generation For each newly viewed hex, roll on the following table twice and combine the results. If y...

meanderingbanter.blogspot.com

The Bone Marshes: A Hex-Mapping Adventure About Getting Lost

A tabletop RPG adventure packed with mapping and navigation challenges.

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Approximating the area of a hexagon

I needed to figure out how many square miles are in a hexagon. Turns out, nobody wants to give a straight answer when all you know about the hexagon is the distance face-to-face, which is what we a…

1d30.wordpress.com

Hex Describe

CONE OF NEGATIVE ENERGY

Campaign Wiki LinksToWisdom: HomePage

Hexcrawl

As part of my essay on game structures in roleplaying games, I specifically discussed the basic structure of the hexcrawl:(1) Draw a hexmap. In general, the terrain of each hex is given as a v

thealexandrian.net

A Set of Unified Wilderness Travel Procedures

OSR RPG blog with a focus on mechanically reinforcing immersion and thematic elements of story.

melancholiesandmirth.blogspot.com

Almost-Encounters: Sights, Sounds and Leavings

Regularly, when I roll for random encounters underground or outdoors in a game, I allow for the possibility that some kind of clue to an enc...

rolesrules.blogspot.com

A Marked-Up Map

I'm much too kind to show the influence map the Band of Iron left behind in the northern lands. Let's just say that purple worm example in...

rolesrules.blogspot.com

Old School Fantasy Hexcrawl Resources

Ever since Troy's article about running red box D&D for his kids at the end of January, I've been immersing myself in the OSR (Old School Renaissance). It's been a ton of fun, and one aspect in particular has been some of the most fun I've had as a GM in years. Even though I started gaming with...

gnomestew.com

The Hexenbracken

The Kraal

The Colossal Wastes of Zhaar

[BLOG] Shallow and deep wilderness sandboxes

Difficulties concerning this area of play notwithstanding , most of us manage to create and run rewarding wilderness adventures. The OD&D...

beyondfomalhaut.blogspot.com

note the melan comments - towards the tower. vision distance and the importance of abstraction to immersion

Travel Times for Old-School Hex-Crawling

Here’s the handy-dandy chart I’m using to calculate travel times for “province-level” hex-crawls in my Panzoasia Campaign. It’s keyed for a scale of “1 Hex = 1 League”, which I prefer because it co…

engineoforacles.wordpress.com

Travel through the Wilderness, references

Looking for sources to run a wilderness game? Here are some great blog posts I've been reading lately (some from better authors than m...

signsinthewilderness.blogspot.com

Rules for hex crawls? | Dungeons & Dragons / Fantasy D20 Spotlight

What are your favourite sources for hex crawl rules and mechanics? Heck, what are your favourite rules and mechanics for hex crawls? The last time I interacted with the idea was the 5e adventure path that took place in the jungle continent, had a ruined city full of animal-themed temples, and a...

forum.rpg.net

[BLOG] Let me use Huberic of Haghill

Accidental genius or random content mill? Opinions vary about Judges Guild, but there is a truth to both descriptions. Here was a pioneer ...

beyondfomalhaut.blogspot.com

Reactions to OD&D – Hex-Clearing Procedures

Not to be confused with hexcrawling, hex-clearing is the process by which monsters and other hostile forces were cleared out of a hex in preparation for a stronghold to be constructed. Clearing a he

thealexandrian.net

[BLOG] Shallow and deep wilderness sandboxes

Difficulties concerning this area of play notwithstanding , most of us manage to create and run rewarding wilderness adventures. The OD&D...

beyondfomalhaut.blogspot.com

Travel and hex-crawling, part two

Read part one here : https://daimon-games.blogspot.com/2019/10/travel-and-hex-crawling-part-one.html In this new post, we start by looki...

daimon-games.blogspot.com

In the Heart of the Unknown | Procedural Hex Crawling Engine

In the Heart of the Unknown – A Procedural Hex Crawling Engine ‘In the Heart of the Unknown’ contains procedural Encounter, Terrain and Weather Engines for Wilderness Hex Crawling…

goblinshenchman.wordpress.com

Hex Flower Game Engines | an overview and some thoughts

Background: For about the past year I’ve been blogging on-and-off about Hex Flower Game Engines (they are like a random table but with a memory). For example here and here. Download I decided…

goblinshenchman.wordpress.com

Hexcrawl Addendum – Sketchy Hexcrawls

As described in The Art of the Key, the first published module for D&D was Palace of the Vampire Queen. It used a very simplistic, tabular key:A year later, Judges Guild would release Wilderla

thealexandrian.net

Hex Crawling 101? - Dragonsfoot

Best hex template? | Original D&D Discussion

What templates do you use in your hexcrawls? For me, the numbered grid is a must. Some space left to make notes is also welcome. Few examples: http://quicklyquietlycarefully.blogspot.com

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Hex-Based Exploration

Hex-Based Exploration

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[The Heretic]

Silly question: I've always assumed that the distance covered by a hex as calculated from one flat side to the other. I have an adventure path that states that the distance was from one corner to the opposite corner. But but but...that just seems wrong to me. Am I alone in this?

 

[bryce0lynch]

You are not alone.

Mechanically, the purpose of the scale is to compute travel distances? So are characters entering from one corner or from one side? IE: this corner statement may be academically correct but irrelevant because its not how its used? Or is it? idk ...

 

[The Heretic]

I thought about this some more when I was trying to sleep last night. Consider:
The usual scale used for graph paper is one square = 10 feet
A ten foot square room is usually drawn with all the borders shaded in as walls
Therefore the traditional use of the square is from one side to the other = 10 feet. If it was one corner to the opposite corner, ten foot square rooms would have to be drawn differently.
The hex is just like the square, except that it has six sides instead of four. Therefore it should be computed the same.

This was a Pathfinder adventure path where I saw this. So you can blame it on evil, bad Paizo ickiness.

 

[DangerousPuhson]

Hexes vs squares, corners vs. sides.... it's all just semantics. The DM decides how long something will take, and it takes that long... period. Even uniformity goes out the window, considering not all hexes are the same. Cross a hex, 1 day. Cross two hexes, 2 days. Cross a hex filled with jagged cliffs and thick brambles? Two days, or one and a half, or whatever you want. Ask a villager how far to the next town... "Oh about three days of walking". I'll never see a party complain saying "well technically we are crossing from the SE corner to the NE side, so it should only take 0.85 days"... no, the DM says something and it is what it is. Done. What they want to do will take 1 day. Ruling made, let's move on to the actual game please.

I will never understand why people let the game bog them down so much. You're the DM - the world is as you say it is.

 

[squeen]

For me...get called out months or years later due to inconsistencies. (Predicated upon a long-running campaign.)
Just makes it easier, I believe, if you have a system that works for you and is well documented.

 

[DangerousPuhson]

Here's how I see it:

Take an easy to remember rule, let's say 1 hex = 1 day travel.

Going from a corner to a side? Takes a day - the terrain isn't so easily navigable.
Going from a side to an adjacent side? Takes a day - there's some big-ass ravine to go all the way around.
Going from a corner to an opposite corner? Takes a day - it's a lot of unimpeded walking in a straight line.

The world is not conveniently broken up into hexes. To me in this scenario, the hex doesn't represent shape or distance, so much as it represents TIME. It's a day to do it, no matter how wide the hex or whether you start from a corner or whatever. A hex could be a five-mile stretch of thorn bushes and irregular terrain, and a hex could be a fifty mile stretch of open, well-maintained road - in both cases, they take a day to cross. In both cases, they are a single hex on a map.

The shape and distance of the hex is irrelevant - your party isn't going to whip out a measuring tape and check for hex consistency across the borders. They're not going to peek at the DM map. The borders of the hex are representative of a time measurement - 1 day's journey. If you were to directly translate this into distance hexes, sure you'd get some weirdly oblong hexes, but that's why you're using them to measure time and not distance.

But the hex only represents a unit of time, not distance, simply because I decided that it did. It could represent anything - units of supply, measurement in walking miles, days of water required, etc. point is, the lines of the hex are metrics we can set ourselves, and so long as we maintain the baseline metric of what a hex even "is", then consistency is easy to maintain.

 

[The Heretic]

(drat, where'd I put that glue trap...)

Hexes vs squares, corners vs. sides.... it's all just semantics...I will never understand why people let the game bog them down so much. You're the DM - the world is as you say it is.

Lol. I agree with you. I am more aghast that anyone would do the measure from corner to corner. That just seems barbaric.

 

[grodog]

Some recent hex design work I've done in Greyhawk, using our Black Blade hex pads: https://grodog.blogspot.com/2020/02/renovating-the-monastery-in-greyhawk-part-1.html

Allan.

 

[squeen]

@grodog : I was going to say how cool your blown-up Verbobonc-Dyvers regional maps are, but embellishing on topdichvu's elegant prose would just be gliding the Lilly.

Seriously, I think that is the most interesting region on the Greyhawk map because of the ToEE history. (I had integrated the B2 map a bit to the south, on a road through Gnarley for my home campaign.) Very cool. It will be fun to watch your work unfold. Someday, when we figure out how to get city-products right, Verbobonc and Dyvers need a fan treatment.

Sounds like a lost Crosby/Hope movie: "Road through Gnarley"

Happy New Year all.

 

[Osrnoob]

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