hex crawl
noun1
- 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.
- 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.”
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