My guide to creating hex maps for Hexcrawl25 and beyond is up on Itch! It’s free for this month so no reason not to give it a look!
Hex-stocking procedures (beta)
Today I dropped some beta procedures for stocking hexes
I streamed a quick and dirty demo:
Got a lot of work done today!
To the manor born!
My noodling around settlement populations yesterday–
–was not wholly in vain! It lead me to this one-pager–
–that I spent last evening and this morning throwing together. I’ve dropped it over on Patreon (follow me to download it, no subscription required) or Itch (set as a free demo). Let me know what you think!
Can the Steading of the Hill Giant work within the hex stocking rules?
Yesterday, I went through the classic adventure, Steading of the Hill Giant Chief , and went down the roster of inhabitants to figure out their point totals in my hex stocking system… (read more at the devlog)
To the Manor Born
I realize now that I forgot to share this here:
I’ve added it as a demo file to the Itch page. I also created a product for it on DTRPG.
Spreading out communities from hubs to extents
I’ve been working through, as well as trying to figure out how to communicate, seeding a region with a hub community (ala a settlement) and then determining how that community spreads out from there: where it can spread to, how far it can spread, etc. (read more at the devlog)
This past weekend, and into this week, I’ve been going through and populating a hex region, from scratch.
I’m at the part of the process at which I’m fleshing out the sites and habitations that I generated. I decided to zoom into this area first:
Yesterday, on stream, I went through what I had so far and we managed to get another location roughed out: