Brock Savage
Cosmic Barbarian
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I could use a little help fine tuning a hexcrawl.
For a 10x10 hexcrawl I am imagining a core of irradiated desert surrounded by badlands, which is in turn surrounded by mountains, jungle, or ocean making up the borders of the map. Obviously I am not running a reality simulator here because it is on a weird alien planet is this set up even remotely plausible? The only badlands I am personally familiar with are the American Southwest and Death Valley, CA in particular (I lived there for a little bit).
I have come across multiple blogs and forum posts advising GMs to start hexcrawls in the middle of the map. I understand why that is desirable but unless the players teleported to or were born in the location the PCs would leave a trail of explored hexes across the map on their way to the starting hex. Is there something I am missing here?
Also if anyone knows how to use Worldographer aka Hexographer 2 I would appreciate learning how to change the hex number pattern. I want 1st column to start with 0101, 2nd column to start with 0201, and so on. My attempts to Google this have failed me.
For a 10x10 hexcrawl I am imagining a core of irradiated desert surrounded by badlands, which is in turn surrounded by mountains, jungle, or ocean making up the borders of the map. Obviously I am not running a reality simulator here because it is on a weird alien planet is this set up even remotely plausible? The only badlands I am personally familiar with are the American Southwest and Death Valley, CA in particular (I lived there for a little bit).
I have come across multiple blogs and forum posts advising GMs to start hexcrawls in the middle of the map. I understand why that is desirable but unless the players teleported to or were born in the location the PCs would leave a trail of explored hexes across the map on their way to the starting hex. Is there something I am missing here?
Also if anyone knows how to use Worldographer aka Hexographer 2 I would appreciate learning how to change the hex number pattern. I want 1st column to start with 0101, 2nd column to start with 0201, and so on. My attempts to Google this have failed me.