# Hexcrawling 101, Class 04: Player Maps and Translating Hexes into Fiction

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**Category:** Hexcrawls & Sandboxes\
**Tags:** osr, hexcrawl\
**Created:** [April 27, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://forums.hexed.press/t/hexcrawling-101-class-04-player-maps-and-translating-hexes-into-fiction/148 "2022-04-27T18:29:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Todd](https://forums.hexed.press/user_avatar/forums.hexed.press/todd/32/8_2.png) [@Todd](https://forums.hexed.press/u/Todd)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 6:29pm UTC](https://forums.hexed.press/t/hexcrawling-101-class-04-player-maps-and-translating-hexes-into-fiction/148/1 "2022-04-27T18:29:27Z")

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[![](https://forums.hexed.press/uploads/default/original/1X/aba5ed877e87647549188886245ba4e18c728b74.jpeg "Hexcrawling 101, Class 04: Player Maps and Translating Hexes into Fiction") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHxNnULeJ7U)

In this video, we try to tackle the challenges around player-facing maps and generally translating our hexmaps to the game fiction and back again!

👉 [Watch it directly on YouTube](https://youtu.be/VHxNnULeJ7U).

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**Author:** ![Todd](https://forums.hexed.press/user_avatar/forums.hexed.press/todd/32/8_2.png) [@Todd](https://forums.hexed.press/u/Todd)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 8:58pm UTC](https://forums.hexed.press/t/hexcrawling-101-class-04-player-maps-and-translating-hexes-into-fiction/148/2 "2022-04-27T20:58:50Z")

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Friend of the channel, [David McLees](https://www.faultywiregames.com/), shared the hexmap for his campaign setting on the stream. He gave me permission to share these here:

 ![Map_Hex_Road_CityDots_NoNames](https://forums.hexed.press/uploads/default/original/1X/86e29e372d23cb72efe0efe36a2435d0f6e6aa43.jpeg)

 ![Language-Map](https://forums.hexed.press/uploads/default/original/1X/d3d2103ffe17104b53396311ecaaa48aaf053558.jpeg)

David is the author of the excellent sourcebook, [Trade Winds](https://geni.us/5CE8H), which I covered during my [L:ow Fantasy Gaming](https://forums.hexed.press/t/rulebook-read-along-luck-exploits-and-rescues-from-low-fantasy-gaming-rpg/141) stream.

Thanks to David for letting me repost these awesome maps!