Keep on Keeping on! These last two videos have been the most practical and helpful when creating an open world hex crawl.

This series has been supremely f*cking helpful, eminently useful, and generally valuable. Thanks to the whole team!!!

Thanks for the videos Jim. They really help make the seeds of an idea gameable. Since you asked what we’re working on, I’m building a map that’s an inland sea shrouded by giant versions of mangroves and swamp cypress. Things to encounter include a sunken city from a lost empire, a tribe of marine kobold, treetop elves whose oldest remember the flooding, and an immeasurably large dead tree where the only full sunlight breaches the canopy. Oh, and can’t forget the aboleth!

@reactionarydm

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds awesome!

@WebDM

2 жыл бұрын

Badass!

Thank you for recommending Worlds Without Number, I've been browsing through the random tables and they're great for ideas!

@moiseman

2 жыл бұрын

I particularly love the dynamic faction system

So I've never made a hex map myself, but my players are in a forest that shifts itself around as a defensive mechanism so I have a chart that consists of 4d8 tables: AM, NOON, PM, Locations. So there's about 25 encounters because some tables influence others but its been super fun running through it. My party consists of all first time players so its a nice way of "railroading" a hex map to get through a sandbox with first time players in a narratively satisfying way because, hey, the forest is moving. A lot of the encounters set up adventure hooks elsewhere in the sandbox so the world is really about to open up as they hit lvl 5, very excited

I have been going through and defining my old homebrew world since the late 90s, I am actually using book 3 from the OD&D as well and playing my adpted version of the Man-to-Man rules from Chainmail for combat which is a lot changing the monsters in OD&D to fit

Thanks!! It's always interesting to see other people's creative process.

Really enjoy these livestreams, Jim! Worldbuild-y stuff all the better!

Now you need to rename this series Hexbox, Hexbox 360, and Hexbox Series Hex.

Some of the best advice I’ve received for my sandbox games

For soem reason I really love hex maps and generating them. Thanks for these videos!

Just for anyone attempting to do this method, in Worldographer/Hexographer 2's paid version you can subdivide hexes as a built in feature

"Hexographer?" "Yes, it's a perfectly cromulent map maker."

Super great video. I'd love to see demonstrations of how the mechanics of a hex crawl could work in action. Dungeon crawl too.

Jim and Emma, partners in becoming liches.

I use the Welsh piper's hex map guide for my west marches style game!

@Gradin15

2 жыл бұрын

Is there a place to find that info? I am getting errors when I try to open it.

And another day passes that I miss web dm

I'm not working on a sandbox right now, but I have these on while thinking about and taking notes for the dungeon I'm working on. I don't know how big it will be when I'm done, but the phrase "massive complex" springs to mind.

YES...... Barony of Mandoom is flipping awesome!!!...hahaha... I may still that.

I love this video format! I would be very happy about a video where you used WWN if it needed a bit of editing. I do think it would work as is though.

Hey Emma! Is there an online resource that has the original D&D hex feature tables that Jim is using to populate this map?

I noticed the Welsh Piper site is down. Is there another place to find the info?

So is each small hex 1 mile or 5 miles? In the previous video I thought the big hexes were 5 miles and small were 1, but now it seems the big are 25 and small 5.

@asdasd-ty9se

Жыл бұрын

Yes ;)

Dang it! I missed another one!

Three major settlements on the same peninsula? Combine the three into a megalopolis but that might throw off the rest of the features on the map. There'd be more farms to supply the city to start with. Or it could be something like the situation in Tripoli a long time ago where three powers hold the one city. In this setting, two parts could be controlled by local Humans and an overseas power or perhaps the elves. The third part might be the last bastion of these "undead fishy folk". Either would be a solution of sorts but could pull the attention of the group away from the hex crawl and into urban intrigue.

“…my partner in life & business & crime-NOT CRIME, sorry about that”. Someone dig up this man's garden.😂

I was listening to this series while driving and heard the mention of some links being shared. I expected them to hit the description. Anyone have them handy?

Thanks.

The Light is MINE!!!

missed opportunity to have Man-pig Barony:)

anyone know where i can find or make more classic D&D key style symbols or swap symbols

Darn, barely missed it

How would you go about adapting an existing map, say from a module, into a hex crawl type experience? Also how would you convey the map to players (only locally filling in the blank spaces as they go or large geographical overview order or something else/in between?)

Jim Davis references using a table to populate points of interest using od&d books. Does anyone know where these tables are? I looked couldn't find anything.

@geoffdewitt6845

2 жыл бұрын

Google Original D&D. I think it might be public domain now?

@nsideddice

2 жыл бұрын

@@geoffdewitt6845 I mean more specifical which book or section. I tried googling it and couldn't find it.

@geoffdewitt6845

2 жыл бұрын

@@nsideddice ​ Sure thing! I believe Mr. Davis specifically cited Vol III of original Dungeons & Dragons (Underworld & Wilderness Adventures), which can be found here: www.drivethrurpg.com/product/28306/ODD-Dungeons--Dragons-Original-Edition-0e as part of the boxed set in pdf. I suspect he's citing these pages: 18 - 20.

So here’s the deal, Jim admitted to crime, with Emma of all people. It’s time we finally come after them.

What was the website that has those random tables?

Do you think maybe Pruitt could make a guest appearance at some point on your channel?

When Jim started describing what makes a Sandbox fun in the first 5 min., I was momentarily, slightly concerned that he has a child. Just for a second tho

@WebDM

2 жыл бұрын

He does. Is that concerning?

@Poisonfrogg

2 жыл бұрын

@@WebDM No. Not actually. It was an attempt at a joke where in Jim's sandbox analogy he jumped to firecrackers and chainsaws as things you play with in a sandbox. Maybe it was a poor attempt at a joke, sorry.

41:30 Barbagora is masculine?

Totally Off Topic, but -- have you seen a channel called "What Lurks Beneath"? The host looks just like you, as if he's an alternate version who got into Bigfoot sightings instead of RPGs.

The banter between Jim and Pruitt was what made WebDM great. Sorry Jim you end up feeling like a DND encyclopedia. Just too dry for me.

@apotheosis21

2 жыл бұрын

Boo

@daviddobarganes9115

2 жыл бұрын

I agree that this video in particular is a bit low energy. Maybe I dont follow the news as much as I should, but are we getting anymore guests or regulars?

@tedm3081

2 жыл бұрын

Livestreams always have a diff vibe, I usually don't bothee watching them cause they feel slow/low energy

@shehathnoname

2 жыл бұрын

@@daviddobarganes9115 did you skip the intro?