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Stuart :progress_pride:

West Yorkshire people, which of these two hex layouts (of wards) would you prefer? Option 1 where each local authority is separate or Option 2 where they are joined into a combined West Yorkshire? Option 2 requires (to me) a less nice arrangement within each local authority.
#WestYorkshire #hexmaps

The wards of the five local authorities in West Yorkshire as distinct, separate, blocks
The wards of the five local authorities in West Yorkshire coloured differently for each local authority but combined into one contiguous West Yorkshire block.
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Christer Enfors

When drawing #HexMaps for a #TTRPG, do you draw them by hand or use hexmapping software?

Here are two examples of what I mean; I'm drawing my world Uldorion both by hand (on a tablet), and using the hexmapping software called Worldgrapher. Both have their advantages. I prefer the look of the hand drawn one (why else would I make it?), but the Worldographer one has advantages such as being able to zoom in and create subhexes, mark locations and extensive notes, etc. Which do you prefer?

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Stuart :progress_pride:

My index of UK geography hex maps now includes boundaries (if they are in the original HexJSON) in the SVG and GeoJSON outputs. For example, here's the current UK constituencies as an SVG hex map
hexmap.uk/layouts/files/uk-con

I've added some basic default styling for the hexes and boundary lines. My hope is that it is pretty easy to re-use and people can fairly easily remove boundaries if they don't want them.

#hexmaps#SVG#HexJSON
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Game Stamps

I made this map with the Cartographers edition of Game Stamps, combining the Basic Set with the more recent Campaign Expansion.

I used a stencil to create the hexes, blending colors like Mermaid Lagoon and Fossilized Amber. I love stenciling the hexes as a first step, creating the broad outline of a map and then stamping more detailed terrain later.

#gamestamps#mapmaking#hexmap
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Steffi ✨🌒🌕🌘✨

So I was just thinking. are a thing and a lot of them are 1” which I think is a common measure for which made me wonder… has anyone ever sewn a hex map or used a quilt for one?

(Probably not or at least almost no one but it could work…)

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Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲

So...
✅ Converted my campaign hex-generation spreadsheet to table-driven format

✅ Created new encounter tables for terrains that current games are running in

✅ Set up local server to run the hex-describe server/software

✅ Converted my table dev environment to use my local setup

🏃‍♂️Working on my "TODO" items

... and still doing Dungeon23 as well! 4th level is almost fully drawn.

#hexdescribe#hexmaps#ttrpg
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Michael / Chgowiz 🎲🎲

It's been two weeks and almost 17k of lines added to a text file, but I finally am at a point where my Etinerra campaign specific hex-describe file is functional enough to be useful.

Lots of little bits on my TODO list, but I can use this as it is now and be way quicker about game-prep for newly-trodden lands.

Between a diversion into Medieval Demographics tables, and flattening the AD&D treasure/npc party/monster content...

So worth it

A screenshot of a webpage for running Hex Describe. The page shows a setup for using the Etinerra campaign random tables that the author of the picture has created. The text on the page says: Hex Describe This tool generates mini-setting books: a hundred pages or more of descriptions for a map based on random tables. The following links automatically load a map and pick a matching table: Smale mini-setting; Alpine mini-setting; Apocalypse mini-setting; Traveller subsector. You can write the hex map descriptions yourself, but it's often quicker to generate one using Text Mapper and modify it until you're happy, then copy and paste the map into the text area below, pick an appropriate random table and submit it. For a quick demonstration, the following links will Ioad map data from Text Mapper into the text area below: random Smale data; random Alpine data; random Apocalypse data; random Traveller daa. Finally, you can also explore the rules of the various tables interactively, and use the tables with no map. The data used to generate the hex descriptions says: 0101 forest-hex 0201 plains-hex 0301 plains-hex road 0401 hills-hex 0501 wildmountains-hex
The image is a screenshot of text generated by the hex-describe tool using the Etinerra campaign tables. There is far too much text to detect using a tool, unfortunately. It's unable to read accurately from the image. The text describes two hexes. One has a major encounter of a strange woods that has a unique divine energy. It also has a minor encounter of a false treasure rumor. The second hex has a major encounter of a treasury ruins with a valuable treasure hidden within, inhabited by a mage named Arie.. A large spider lurks outside and there's a dungeon with 3 levels. The hex also has a minor encounter of a valuable commodity.
#ttrpg#hexdescribe#dnd
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