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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 8648820" data-attributes="member: 6696971">The problem with 5e hexcrawling is:* It doesn’t have a robust and integrated hexcrawling system/set of procedures. I listed a chunk of them upthread but not even close to the whole engine. 5e has the most bare bones possible. You have to invent a large swathe of procedures and then integrate them with the rest of the engine (which is fraught due to several confounds).* To go along with those procedures all of the other integrated engine tech isn’t there to support/facilitate it; Daytime and Nighttime Wandering Monster procedures/tables that integrate with real logistical challenges around moving/light/encumbrance/info gathering, xp paradigm that is integrated with that exploration challenge environment.5e spells are at-will, ubiquitous, and crazy powerful. Encumbrance is a nothingburger. Info gathering capability is potent.[HR][/HR]The confounds and lack of game engine tech (constituent parts and their integration) are a huge thing to overcome.Which is why you don’t see virtually any talk of this kind of play in 5e. You see a lot of GM-directed AP play + ignoring of things like encumbrance/light and logistical challenges (because 5e groups have so many means to just obviate Wilderness Crawl logistic challenges) + GM conception and extrapolation of setting/fiction/conversation inputs and milestone xp to pace GM story beats (rather than to incentivize Gamism).Which is fine.Totally cool. It’s just not Gamism it’s GM-directed High Concept Simulationism sometimes with a veneer of Process Simulationism. That play is what is wildly popular.</blockquote>

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