It's the most wonderful time of the year, so in the spirit of the spooky season let's make some Halloween hexcrawls!
The rules are simple, in the next month create a system-agnostic hexcrawl that has:
- 20 keyed hexes (that's a 4×5 grid)
- At least 1 town/settlement with NPCs
- Dungeons! (pick A or B)
- A - 5 dungeons (3 6-room, 1 12-room, and 1 24-room)
- B - As many dungeons as you like of any size, so long as there are 54 rooms total
- A bestiary with 9 original monsters, 3 of which are unique (only one of them exists in the world)
- An encounter list with at least 1d20 entries
- Hand-drawn maps, done on paper then scanned or photographed
The setting, time period, and exact flavor of danger/monster is up to you but if you'd like a starting point, go ahead and roll:
Time (d8): 1-3 medieval, 4 1800s, 5 1900-1920s, 6 1950-1960s, 7 1980s, 8 present day
Monster/Danger (d14)
- Skeletons/things keep coming back
- Ghosts/hauntings
- Pumpkins/nature is pissed
- Cult stuff/horrors from Beyond again
- Witch stuff/probably completely justified
- Vampires/plague
- Werewolves/curses
- Extremely unethical scientific research/absolutely not peer-reviewed
- UFOs/oh goodie lost time
- Cryptids/urban legends and hyperlocal folklore
- Slasher flick/attrition
- Cursed doll/who made this thing?
- Demons/possession
- Roll again 1d3+1 times
The jam starts at midnight on October 1st and ends at midnight on November 3rd. If it looks like you won't be done by the deadline, don't worry, just upload what you have as an ashcan. Ashcans are delightful.
No fash or bigots. Be excellent to each other and have fun, I believe in you!