{"id":4400,"date":"2018-08-29T07:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T11:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2018-08-20T10:59:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:59:11","slug":"hexplore-borderlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenfootpole.org\/ironspike\/?p=4400","title":{"rendered":"Hexplore: Borderlands"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nCourtney Campbell
\nSelf Published
\nOSR<\/p>\n

Discover the hidden wilderness game in Dungeons and Dragons! It will bring the actual experience of discovery to your players faces. They will be excited to explore a strange fantasy world!<\/p>\n

This eighteen page hex toolkit is something new under the sun. Maybe? I bought it expecting something like Wilderlands. I got something ELSE hex related: a domain play product. Those things are rare as fuck, henc this review of a non-adventure<\/p>\n

Pre-1e D&D is a masterpiece of design. You can see how it evolved. Ear worms for people listening at doors. ESP to stop those fucking prisoners from betraying you. Resource play. The spell ist, in particular, doctates the play style. (along with gold=xp.) High level adventures don\u2019t typically work because they are not SUPPOSED to work. By the time you\u2019re high level you should be moving on to other things \u2026 doman play.<\/p>\n

The first page of the product does a great job explaining its role in the world. Early D&D had a high-level play style where you went in to a hex, with your retainers, men-at-arms, etc, and cleared it of creatures. You set up some points of lights, got some settlers, and taxed the fuckers. TaDa! High level play.<\/p>\n

This thing supports that play style. It\u2019s a one-hex overview. That one hex is broken down in to some nini-hexes with features in them. There\u2019s a couple of medium adventuring locations, a demi-human tribe, three lairs, four landmarks,, rumors, and a wandering monster table. Everything has a kind of relation to the description style from Wilderlands. This landmark is the house of an albino woodsman with mongolisn and is a superior warrior. This one is an abandoned herb garden, or a ruined tower, or a talking bird. The lairs are a sunken ship, hill caves and a basalt obelisk. The medium sites are a towerful of bards, a bandit camp, and a volcano with a lost world inside. All have nice little pictures meant to be inspiring. The Medium sites have some floorplans with a true minimal key. \u201c9. Thone. Table.\u201d or \u201c12. Bodies on floor. 2d12 zombies.\u201d The lairs just have a big \u201cnotes\u201d section for you to jot things down on.<\/p>\n

Nothing here is really put together, or interrelated. That\u2019s all up to the DM. There may be a sentence or two of description of the general area\/lair\/etc description, but then it\u2019s just he minimal key and picture to inspire you to create something. Sit down for an hour, think, jot notes, and have a big hex for people to clear \u2026 up to and including ye old 110 bandits. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s an interesting concept. There\u2019s no scale to the maps, so I assume it standard hex sizes. Would it kill ya to put that on the map Courtney? Anyway, I\u2019m not sure how to evaluate it. It\u2019s trying to be useful to a style of play doesn\u2019t really have many supplements for it, so its hard for me to judge \u2026 and I LUV judging things. It\u2019s a toolkit, not an adventure. It\u2019s a toolkit for something that I don\u2019t think has any other examples. If you take Wilderlands as your guide, then this supports the DM well. You, the DM, will need to flesh this out just as you would a Wilderlands hex. Riff on thing much more than a standard adventure.<\/p>\n

This is $4 at DriveThru.https:\/\/www.drivethrurpg.com\/product\/247916\/Hexplore-Borderlands?affiliate_id=1892600<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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