Sunday 31 December 2023

Hexplore 2024

Over at Monsters & Mazes, a challenge was issued: Play a solo game of sandbox hex crawling, where one actual day equals one in-game day.

I will be using Wilderness Hexplore Revised by Jed McClure to generate the map and its features, but flavoured as a swords & sorcery setting with a bit of eldritch horror from Carcosa by Geoffrey McKinney.

For game rules, I will add a little extra challenge by concurrently writing my own heartbreaker based on OSE and Chaos Reigns. The catch is that I want to try out combat with hit dice only, no hit points, to make resolution quick, simple and dangerous.

The community is mostly centred around /r/hexplore24, so you can meet everyone there!


The Graveyard

 
Characters:
Retainers, allies and pets:
  • 5 Ragwretches, torn apart by owlbears
  • 9 Amazons from Eklo, killed in skirmishes with Feather-and-Claw cultists
  • Úlfi the small but vicious dog, skewered by a Feather-and-Claw cultist's javelin