D&D General Hexcrawl25, anyone else doing the challenge?

[Charlaquin]

I remember hearing about it but don't remember seeing any completed examples.

Oh, gotcha. I think there was a thread around here where people were sharing their progress. And I’m sure a lot of people did so on Twitter and other social media as well. I’d be surprised if there were many people sharing their completed dungeons, since the challenge was never really intended to produce a product for publication, but for personal use.

 

[darjr]

I remember hearing about it but don't remember seeing any completed examples.

D&D General - #Dungeon23

There is a new design challenge, kind of like nanowrimo, called #dungeon23. Design a megadungeon for 2023, one room a day. I think this blog post and twitter post was the initial start of it. https://seanmccoy.substack.com/p/dungeon23 Here are some recommendations from the blog post. Don’t...

www.enworld.org

 

[Distracted DM]

Maybe I could use this as an excuse to map the new age of my setting! Just started a Birthright-inspired game in it, and I need an excuse to get going anyway

 

[SJB]

Roles, Rules and Rolls decided to do a hex crawl for Dungeon23. It eventually ran to 277 entries and was very impressive, not least inasmuch that he kept going for the whole year. It’s not a challenge for the faint of heart.

2023 Year Start: Hex Crawl 23 #1,The Village of Alakran

So yeah, let me revive the old blog a little with this #dungeon23 madness. But it's a hex crawl! In fact, the campaign environment for my on...

rolesrules.blogspot.com

 

[Gradine]

Just got a book about drawing fantasy maps and art supplies for Christmas; this seems like it will be a fun challenge!!

 

[Charlaquin]

After some thought, I’ve decided not to commit to the year-long project, but I do really like the hex populating resources maatlock shared here, and I do think I’m going to experiment with generating a smaller-scale map with them.

 

[overgeeked]

Here are some other handy resources.

Spoiler

Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator

Watabou's Procgen Arcana

Hexcrawl Resources

Hex-based Campaign Design (Part 1) | The Welsh Piper

How to make a Fantasy Sandbox

In Praise of the 6 Mile Hex

Distance to the Horizon Calculator

Hexcrawl

If Your Torches Burn for only One Hour your NPCs will be More Important

Just Three Hexes - Campaign Starters

Lazily GMing a sandbox campaign | Tabletop Roleplaying Open

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I remember hearing about it but don't remember seeing any completed examples.

There are a few out there. Apparently we're going to some Dungeon23 megadungeons for sale on Kickstarter in the near future.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Here are some other handy resources.

Spoiler

Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator

Watabou's Procgen Arcana

Hexcrawl Resources

Hex-based Campaign Design (Part 1) | The Welsh Piper

How to make a Fantasy Sandbox

In Praise of the 6 Mile Hex

Distance to the Horizon Calculator

Hexcrawl

If Your Torches Burn for only One Hour your NPCs will be More Important

Just Three Hexes - Campaign Starters

Lazily GMing a sandbox campaign | Tabletop Roleplaying Open

The Gygax 75 method is pretty decent. It's simple, but it's a good way to get a functional setting up and running very quickly for sandbox play.

 

[Orius]

Here are some other handy resources.

Spoiler

Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator

Watabou's Procgen Arcana

Hexcrawl Resources

Hex-based Campaign Design (Part 1) | The Welsh Piper

How to make a Fantasy Sandbox

In Praise of the 6 Mile Hex

Distance to the Horizon Calculator

Hexcrawl

If Your Torches Burn for only One Hour your NPCs will be More Important

Just Three Hexes - Campaign Starters

Lazily GMing a sandbox campaign | Tabletop Roleplaying Open

That's a good chunk of my bookmarks right there.

Here's some more:

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A Wilderness Template and More On Hexes

Back in December of 2009 (am I really that infrequent?) I posted about the 6 mile hex being the ideal hex for wilderness adventuring hex cr...

steamtunnel.blogspot.com

Mapping with Hexes

Hex Paper - one of the signature items of the RPG hobby. Originating in the board and counter games of Avalon Hill, hexes formed the basis f...

batintheattic.blogspot.com

Free Online Graph Paper / Hexagonal

incompetech.com

May the Hex Be With You | The Welsh Piper

What hex maps are, and why they’re Good

welshpiper.com

Wilderness Hexplore (Revised) — Jed McClure

This is a repost of my original post on the NY Redbox forum from August 2011, when I published Wilderness Hexplore for the first time.

web.archive.org

It looks like an interesting idea, but I've got some ideas in my head about how I want to set up wilderness exploration and there's no way I'll have them all worked out by Wednesday. Right now, I'm puttering around on dungeon stuff.