So I was just thinking. #hexie #quilts are a thing and a lot of them are 1” which I think is a common measure for #hexmaps which made me wonder… has anyone ever sewn a hex map or used a quilt for one? #ttrpg

(Probably not or at least almost no one but it could work…)

Add some ye-olde businesses to your towns and villages - via S John Ross's Medieval Demographics and a public-domain random table generator!

#ttrpg #dnd #adnd #odnd #DmTools #HexDescribe #Medieval #Demographics #HexMaps

https://chgowiz-games.blogspot.com/2023/02/domesday-medieval-demographics-for-your.html

So...
✅ Converted my campaign hex-generation spreadsheet to table-driven format

✅ Created new encounter tables for terrains that current games are running in

✅ Set up local server to run the hex-describe server/software

✅ Converted my table dev environment to use my local setup

🏃‍♂️Working on my "TODO" items

... and still doing Dungeon23 as well! 4th level is almost fully drawn.

#hexdescribe #hexmaps #ttrpg #dnd #adnd #dungeon23

It's been two weeks and almost 17k of lines added to a text file, but I finally am at a point where my Etinerra campaign specific hex-describe file is functional enough to be useful.

Lots of little bits on my TODO list, but I can use this as it is now and be way quicker about game-prep for newly-trodden lands.

Between a diversion into Medieval Demographics tables, and flattening the AD&D treasure/npc party/monster content...

So worth it

#ttrpg #hexdescribe #dnd #hexmaps

This morning's project - redoing my encounter tables and putting them into hex-describe.

#ttrpg #hexdescribe #hexmaps #adnd #dnd

Palaces are done! These are rare, but huge ruin complexes with a lot of areas for monsters to be and players to go play in. It would be a major event to go raid these.

Now for a few "smaller" major ruin areas to write up and then I'll have only 1 encounter type left to put in place.

(I'm not thinking about the variations in monster encounter types and encounter %s due to diff terrain types, tyvm! Small moves, Ellie! Small moves!)

#ttrpg #hexdescribe #hexmap #hexmaps #dnd

Getting to the finish line of this table generator. The ruins get a lot of detail since they're a likely destination for players!

#ttrpg #hexdescribe #dnd #hexmaps #hexmap

Next major encounter type of "religious site" is done for my hex-describe tables. Two left to go - ruins/dungeons and "natural effects"...

#hexdescribe #ttrpg #hexmap #hexmaps #hex23

I'm at that point in this little project where the foundations are starting to come together and I'm rolling out stuff into my generator tables faster.

I finished small towns pretty fast - decoding the AD&D sages rules and info into tables is what took me a little bit.

Now on to regular sized towns, revisit some fixes to the villages and hamlets and I'm done with settlements for the time being!

#hexdescribe #ttrpg #dnd #hexmap #hexmaps

I'm sharing my "Medieval Demographics for hex-describe" tool here if you want to look at it.

This is WIP. You'll see me futzing with it, probably.

Make a copy.

I've put instructions and a beginning FAQ in it.

I can't say this enough - this is tuned for my campaign. You should tweak this for your own campaign.

I should make this into a blog post.

#ttrpg #dmtip #tools #dnd #hexdescribe #hex23 #hexmap #hexmaps #randomgeneration

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G8AZf2tBOtGYr5AEKis7_AZYpJ1_T18LFYp_mi_rikY/edit?usp=sharing

Burn all your 2022 Bingo Cards, and let the cliche die.
No more bingo cards. Bingo as a metaphor for the news discourse sucks.

Explore 2023 like a Hexmap and be surprised whenever there is a new discovery.

#2023 #happynewyear #hexmaps #ttrpgs #dungeon23 #hexmap23