Meaning of hex crawl | Babel Free

Definitions

A style of role-playing game in which players navigate an outdoor setting detailed on a hexagonal grid map, encountering monsters and hazards and visiting settlements and locales. Usually populated using tables for randomizing encounters, events, and weather.

Examples

“The RPG Handbook ~ Getting Started, Thistle Games, 2013, page 151: “A Hex-crawl offers one of the simplest approaches to forming open-ended campaign worlds.””

“Matthew Beilman (20 July 2020), “Dungeons & Dragons: A Guide⟳ to Hexcrawls”, in CBR.com: “Hexcrawls are also known as wilderness adventures, hearkening back to the days when the entire game could be boiled down to either murder-hobos in dungeons or murder-hobos in the bush, but really any expansive and unexplored landmass could qualify⟳ for a hexcrawl today.””

“Stars Without Number⟳ is an extremely detailed space opera sci-fi RPG heavily influenced by the "Old School Revival" game design⟳ movement, with extensive rules for creating characters with technical, social, combat, and psychic abilities, designing custom spaceships, and exploring new, unfamiliar star systems in a twist⟳ on "hex crawl" gameplay.”

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