hex crawl

== English == === Alternative forms === hex-crawl, hexcrawl === Noun === hex crawl (plural hex crawls) (roleplaying games) 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[1], 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[2]: “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.” Coleman Gailloreto (28 March 2021), “Star Trek-Style Tabletop RPGs For Fans Of Peaceful Space Exploration”, in Screen Rant‎[3]: ==== Related terms ==== dungeon crawl