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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    The Mounts of Thring Since the horses went out of the world, the question of the best mount for riding upon has been an eternally unresolved question. Today in Thring, the most valiant knights (cynics would say the richest) ride upon the resurrected horses of old, but most are forced to find...
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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    I've started writing up some notes for my Google+ game set in the Shrouded Lands. It's going to start off very simple to begin with because I'm not used to running Basic. The first session will just focus on a dungeoncrawl into the Sundered Citadel of the Verlimes*, which is maybe not the best...
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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    I can't go past this Megadungeon Origins Table from Rolang. I think the Shattered Citadel of the Verlimes has the potential to be something more than just a small ruined castle, so let's add something beneath it - perhaps the real reason why the elves attacked it in the first place? I rolled: a...
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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    Daztur, I'm not sure why, but the latter part of the compilation (everything from page 101 onwards) doesn't seem to register as text, which means it isn't searchable. Do you think you could fix this? It makes it pretty difficult to navigate the Freeholds entries. Sanglorian: I'm a little...
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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    I like it. That sounds like a good efficient way of filling blank hexes and adding more stuff to the hexes that do have something (since, as has been discussed elsewhere, you will almost never fill up a six-mile hex to the point where it's "unrealistically crowded".) I especially dig the idea of...
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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    You know, now I'm thinking about running a Shrouded Lands game as well, over Google+ for FLAILSNAILS players. Maybe basing the PCs in Newhill to start off with? That's got a ready-made dungeon right on the doorstep, and it's fairly close to the Kingswood, Brindlebrook Swamp, the hobgoblins, the...
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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    I don't know if it fits your idea of a standard party, but the nordanbjorn of the Shrouded Lands were taken directly from Bailywolf's class writeup for ACKS: [Sapient Bears+] a Nordligbjörn class for Adventurer Conquer King so if a player ever wants to be a talking bear, you know where to direct...
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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    I guess the point of it being edition-neutral is that people can run it however they like. But yeah, that doesn't sound like the sort of system that I would want to use for it. A lot of the interesting cultural details (for humanoids and for human cultures) don't really mean much if it's easier...
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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    So I decided to use this generator to create two feuding families for the City of Shuttered Windows. I kind of didn't expect how much detail it would provide. I'll post my 'workings out' here in case anyone is interested (it was a lot of fun rolling up all those characters), but then at the...
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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    The Bone Heap (50.03) Far out into the nightmare jungles of the World's Edge, there lies an enormous pile of reeking detritus - offal, feces and bones. This is the ancestral defecating-ground of the hoarlephants, which are among the most vile and terrible of all the World's Edge monsters. The...
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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    I like the no horses thing as well. It kind of fits with the assumption that there will be (potentially, at least) a notable feature in every six-mile hex. With a horse, you could cross something like eight hexes in a single day. Also, the secret conspiracy of mules? Awesome. I really like the...
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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    (I hope that last one isn't too... out there? But I figure that the canon is pretty fluid anyway, if someone is actually going to run this thing then they are free to cut out any elements that they don't like.)
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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    A Vision of the Distant Past Additional information about hex 29.14 Long ago, before the gods went to war and the empire of Bergolast was torn asunder, there was an age of great peace and prosperity for this city. The Windows were not Shuttered but wide open, and travellers arrived in the...
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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    The Tomb of the Nameless (42.02) In the last days before the fall of Hoth Achaar (26.01), there was an orc who had no name, a slave owned by the King of the Mountains. When the Disciples of Othonoi brought madness within the fortress walls, the King suspected that orcs were to blame, but could...
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    Let’s Make a Hexcrawl Setting

    The Song of Dust and Flame (32.32) This southern patch of scrubland is broken up by a sudden sinkhole, fifty feet wide. A narrow spiral of steps is carved into the rock and the glow of fire flickers in the deep. Thickets of wormroot cluster around the edge of the pit. From the dusty interior...
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