Let's Key a Hex | DnD Hexcrawl Campaign

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@anon_laughing_man 4 ай бұрын

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

@Earthmote 4 ай бұрын

Yeah it can, especially if you're adding more than one point per hex. But the tables keep it fresh!

@vinimagus Ай бұрын

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

@Earthmote Ай бұрын

Thank you kindly!

@aidoneus2844 4 ай бұрын

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!

@Earthmote 4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yes, I have Notion stuff on the backlog, not sure when I'll get to it though!

@viniciusjp 3 ай бұрын

Amazing and no basic video! Congrats

@viniciusjp 3 ай бұрын

Can you make the complete hex with the rumors and randon encounters?

@Earthmote 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Earthmote 3 ай бұрын

I could try to do one eventually. I need to fill in some of the hexes around it so I have more ideas for where the rumors can originate and point to.

@BDTMack 3 ай бұрын

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.

@Earthmote 3 ай бұрын

Glad it helped! I wanted to use the free resources cause then anyone can follow along or try out their own with those same resources easily enough.

@WannaBeRockStar800 4 ай бұрын

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.

@Earthmote 4 ай бұрын

Awesome, glad it was helpful! Best of luck on building out your hexes

@turtlecheese8 4 ай бұрын

Right around the time I was making my own sandbox!

@Earthmote 4 ай бұрын

Best of luck!

@aidendon4127 3 ай бұрын

Fascinating stuff. Thanks!

@kevinm3428 4 ай бұрын

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.

@Earthmote 4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@teaball8927 4 ай бұрын

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!

@Earthmote 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@Tysto 4 ай бұрын

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.

@Earthmote 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like a good way of doing it

@ryanroyce 3 ай бұрын

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.

@Earthmote 3 ай бұрын

Great idea! I had originally named them the mirror lakes because they mirror another reality (the demi plane those beings now exist in). But I like it when there are multiple meanings & interpretations to the same thing.

4 ай бұрын

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

@nathanaelthomas9243 4 ай бұрын

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

@Earthmote 4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@drew_and_dragons 4 ай бұрын

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!

@Earthmote 4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Best of luck with your games

@Clovis_the_Cat 3 ай бұрын

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

@Earthmote 3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@dreamsalongthepath7377 4 ай бұрын

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.

@Earthmote 4 ай бұрын

Sounds cool, best of luck with it!

@Paraboxify 2 ай бұрын

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 ;^^

@willn7591 4 ай бұрын

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!

@Earthmote 4 ай бұрын

Thanks, I’m glad you found it helpful! Yes, I have been making a template in the background. In hopes of sharing it or selling it for a couple of dollars. It takes some time to get it right though and I don’t have a timeline on when that would be ready to go.

@juliusliubertas8508 4 ай бұрын

@@Earthmote second to that. I would love video showcasing that Notion structure you have got. It is super useful to steal ideas on how people organize their prep data.

@Marcus-ki1en 4 ай бұрын

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

@kadmii 4 ай бұрын

what do you use for creating the regional map? I really appreciate you walking through the resources you use and showcasing how you use them and how you convert what you roll into ideas.

@Earthmote 4 ай бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad its helpful! I made the map with Hex Kit: cone.itch.io/hex-kit And I used the pixel assets from Zeshio. I used pixel tilesets 1 & 2, and the demo tiles which are different. Demo tiles can be found under the Tileset #1 page: zeshio.itch.io/

@ruolbu 4 ай бұрын

I'm confused, many people in the comments there claim that this set of tiles has issues when used in Hex Kit specifically. Did you run into any of these issues, if so, how did you fix them? And did you buy/download the hex tiles recently or a long time ago?

@nicholasaadland8550 4 ай бұрын

This is such amazing work! Thanks so great!. What did you make the map with?

@Earthmote 4 ай бұрын

Glad its useful! I made the map with Hex Kit: cone.itch.io/hex-kit And I used the pixel assets from Zeshio. I used pixel tilesets 1 & 2, and the demo tiles which are different. Demo tiles can be found under the Tileset #1 page: zeshio.itch.io/

@zacclay6478 3 ай бұрын

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."

@blackshard641 4 ай бұрын

So, would you say that Notion is your preferred Hextech?

@Earthmote 4 ай бұрын

Yes, I use notion and love it! Works well for me. There are lots of good tools though.

@viniciusjp 3 ай бұрын

Do you use subhex in your prep?

@Earthmote 3 ай бұрын

I do not, I just use the 6 mile hex level usually. I haven't felt the need to get that granular. But I think plenty of people use them!

@citc617 Ай бұрын

Hey do you have a template you use for notion? It looks very well organized.

@Earthmote Ай бұрын

I’ve been meaning to put a shareable one together! Just been busy lately.

@paulorodrigosilvadecampos4278 2 ай бұрын

Please, make that Keying the Dungeon vídeo!

@Earthmote 2 ай бұрын

I did one! I designed the premise of the dungeon here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqHIhZitq6-qmtk And I keyed out parts of the dungeon here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2aXgXmbrcimg6s

@paulorodrigosilvadecampos4278 2 ай бұрын

@@Earthmote thanks man. You’re one of the best out there.