Let's Key a Hex | DnD Hexcrawl Campaign

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[gstaff]

Appreciate you showing how to use World w/o Number and your own ideas to make the areas make sense for your ideas. Excellent resource

[anon_laughing_man]

Super fun and cool video. Filling hexes can get repetative for any DM after a while. The random choices are fuel for the imagination.

[aidoneus]

Extremely practical and helpful advice. I would be interested in a tutorial on using Notion for this, and if you could provide a blank template with the various categories set up, that would be unbelievably useful!

[WannaBeRockStar]

This has been the most helpful video on creating hexes that I’ve come across. I’ve been feeling very overwhelmed and lost trying to create my first crawl. I was having trouble learning where to start and how to develop it. Using this video, I created my first hex last night and it all came together so wonderfully. It made me excited to continue. I now have an outline on how to create a hex from beginning to end and make it interesting.

[ryanroyce]

A thought that came to me for the mercury-sap of the trees is that if a portion of that sap compound got into the local water table and then flowed to the lakes, that could be a source of their name: a very thin film of that compound could give the water a mirror-like reflective quality.

[teaball]

Still rather new to DnD, and even more recently discovered hexcrawls! Very excited to introduce my players to the style (they are all new to the game as well). So very much appreciate the walkthrough of your keying process and the resoure links!

[BDTMack]

Excellent video, Randall! It's super helpful to see your process in building a hex and the resources you showcased were awesome! Especially seeing as they are available for free.

[kevinm]

Excellent video! I only run hex crawl campaigns, and these are great suggestions on populating hexes. Judges Guild campaign setting Wilderlands of High Fantasy is a huge sandbox and I recommend it highly.

[Tysto]

I created two big lists of major & minor points of interest. Then i can roll for what's in the hex (if i didn’t already put something there) & put its index on the map. So i have a master map that’s clean & a copy with numbers scattered across it where the PCs have explored.

Justo lo que necesitaba para mi juego en solitario, muy buen video, ojalá puedas hacer otros con la misma temática

[Clovis_the_Cat]

Your videos are so helpful for running sandbox type games and I like your system of organization for notes. This channel is such an underrated gem

[vinimagus]

Randall, you're a solo TTRPG genius! Well done! 😊 Great video!

[turtlecheese]

Right around the time I was making my own sandbox!

[nathanaelthomas]

Thanks for the video! I found the information very practical and useful.

[drew_and_dragons]

Love the content! working to make similar stuff, so this is great to see how you are doing it. thanks again for all you do and keep up the great work!

[dreamsalongthepath]

Thanks for the resources! I’m not running a hex campaign, but I’m using hexes for an exploration quest (just on a smaller scale of 1 mile hexes.) I will definitely be using those more in the future.

[willn]

Have you thought of making the notes you use for your campaign into a Notion template and sharing it?
When I saw your database I was both amazed at how organized everything was and intimidated by the vastness of it. I think having a template to go off of would save a lot of time and anxiety.

I love your videos and thanks for inspiring and teaching me to make my first sandbox campaign!

[Marcus-kien]

Hmm, the Land O Lakes. Might there be Butter there? Hahaha. (Sorry, Dad Joke)

[zacclay]

I'm having trouble figuring out how to handle subhexing. If you have multiple points of interest within a hex, how do you handle players deciding to go to one versus the other, and how that subdivides the 6 miles that a hex represents? Sure, each hex is 6 miles, but what if they get stopped at mile 1, and then change direction for two more miles, then change direction again... How do you handle that subdivision?

Do you just eschew anything granular WITHIN your hexes and allow them free access? Do you just say, "You're in the hex, so you can freely go to any location WITHIN the hex without additional travel. If you wish to go to a location within a DIFFERENT hex, you must travel 6 miles."

[Paraboxify]

You make great videos that I am learning a lot from. Point of order: I am someone who watches your videos on headphones. When you bump something, I think your desk, your microphone picks it up and in my headphones it sounds like something going bump in _my_ house (this is because lower frequency audio is harder to localize from the brain, a product of psychoaucoustics). I'd appreciate it if you could fix that problem somehow, as I would like to stay relaxed watching these videos and not inadvertently get startled by you ;^^