Looking for an old blog post

QueenofElflandsSon · Dec 30, 2024

I read a blog post a long time ago about setting up encounters in a hex-crawl.

The basics were that you put a monster in each hex and it had a particular range. Wights in barrows had a range of 0 while particularly mobile monsters had a range of 2 or more.

Each monster also had a d6 table – it might be encountered, or there might be a kind of clue that it had been there.

It was brilliant, but I haven't been able to find it for years.

Is anyone familiar with it?

cbwjm · Dec 30, 2024

I've not heard of it, but based on what you've said, it seems like you've got the basics down. If just wanting to use it in game, I think you've got the basics, anything more and I can't help, sorry.

QueenofElflandsSon · Dec 30, 2024

cbwjm said:
I've not heard of it, but based on what you've said, it seems like you've got the basics down. If just wanting to use it in game, I think you've got the basics, anything more and I can't help, sorry.

There were some specifics – like the categories of the d6 table – that I can't remember and I'd really like to find it again.

HippyCraig · Dec 30, 2024

I didn’t get into this much but it may help not sure if it mentions monsters or not but it reminded me of this

Hex Flower Power

If you like random tables, then you might like this Hex Flower Game Engine idea. Hex Flowers are different to other kinds of random tables because they have an inbuilt ‘memory’, that is…

goblinshenchman.wordpress.com

Jasperak · Dec 30, 2024

I am on the hunt for a specific series of blog posts from 2019 or so that detailed the creation of a hexcrawl/sandbox. The author started with a town in the center hex and built out in rings similar to the flower style. I made a pdf for myself to about three rings and even offered it to the author. The series went to at least five rings and I think maybe even more. I'd love to find this series again.

But while searching for that series, I found this that may be what you are thinking of:

Monster Turf | The Welsh Piper

Sizing territory for your campaign’s beasties

welshpiper.com

or maybe this is the one you are looking for:

Monster Lairs | The Welsh Piper

They gotta live somewhere

welshpiper.com

or possibly this:

Encounter Populations | The Welsh Piper

Settling the wee beasties

welshpiper.com

Joshua Randall · Dec 31, 2024

Although not specifically the post you’re looking for, The Alexandrian has an entire series on hexcrawls.

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

He even specifically covers sighting distances, although not in the same way you described.

Hexcrawl – Part 5: Spot Distances

Go to Part 1This is a useful cheat sheet I created for understanding what characters can see in the wilderness. In practice, sight lines will vary quite a bit (due to hills, forest canopies, and oth

thealexandrian.net

QueenofElflandsSon · Jan 1, 2025

Jasperak said:
I am on the hunt for a specific series of blog posts from 2019 or so that detailed the creation of a hexcrawl/sandbox. The author started with a town in the center hex and built out in rings similar to the flower style. I made a pdf for myself to about three rings and even offered it to the author. The series went to at least five rings and I think maybe even more. I'd love to find this series again.

But while searching for that series, I found this that may be what you are thinking of:

Monster Turf | The Welsh Piper

or maybe this is the one you are looking for:

Monster Lairs | The Welsh Piper

or possibly this:

Encounter Populations | The Welsh Piper

Thank you for this! I think the posts I'm looking for are the Greywulf posts The Welsh Piper is referring to in these posts. Sadly, it looks like those posts are gone, though the Wayback Machine has most of them (sans images). I'm going to keep digging into these. Thank you!

Ben from Periapt Games · Jan 8, 2025

Those old Welsh Piper posts are interesting. I remember reading the blog a few years ago but never got around to doing a deep dive. I should pop it on the reading list.

Looking for an old blog post

QueenofElflandsSon

Villager

cbwjm

Seb-wejem

QueenofElflandsSon

Villager

HippyCraig

Explorer

Hex Flower Power

Jasperak

Adventurer

Monster Turf | The Welsh Piper

Monster Lairs | The Welsh Piper

Encounter Populations | The Welsh Piper

Joshua Randall

Legend

Hexcrawl

Hexcrawl – Part 5: Spot Distances

QueenofElflandsSon

Villager

Ben from Periapt Games

Ideas hewer

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