Hex Power Flower – Weather

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EDIT: For more on Hex Flower design, please see my  image_preview  ‘Hex Flower Cookbook‘

:: My ‘In the Heart of the X’ weather HF

Here’s my simple weather HF:

ItHotS - weather

Examples in use to generate 7 days of weather:

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You can find the PDF here: image_preview  Weather Hex Flower

I’ve used this weather HF in some of my one-page exploration tools:

InHotS the cover image            ItHotU - cover
Part of Weather & Sea Travel              &  Wilderness Exploration

:: This is an interesting monochromatic take on the HF

It was posted on the For Glory #1, The Hexanomicon Kickstarter by Ariel Churi ; which of course must be filled with great stuff if this didn’t make the final cut …
;O)

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I’ll defo be watching for any future KS! I like the latency of the 8, 9 option, and the instructions are super clear. If you have a problem with DCC D7’s, use can use a D6+D8, which will do the more or less the same job (it will have a slightly flatter bell curve)!

:: Fun weather HF online widget (https://dvdagames.github.io/react-hex-flower-engine)

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 ::  4 Hex Flowers for the 4 Seasons

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It is an idea I toyed with for a while, but Korbi has done it and brought the concept into full technicolor reality! And nice it is too! In that way a more generic weather HF is replaced with 4HFs, each tuned to a temperate climate season. There are just too many creative people out there!
:O)

If I were tempted to tweak it (why tinker you might rightly ask!), I might use a D6+D8 Navigation Hex like below and rotate the HFs to have the dominant weather on the bottom of the HF (rather than the right and bottom).

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:O)

Background

If you’ve got no idea what this post is about, the below links give some context:imagined journeyHere’s a link to the original posting about using the 19 Hex Power Flower as a Hex Crawl Engine:
HPF – What the Hex’s Next?8hfThis is a link to more kinds of 19 Hex Power Flowers (with some being quite silly/fun):
Hex Power Flower (HPF)3hfThis is a link to the ‘theory’ (or at least rational) behind this idea:
2D6 + 19-Hex Power Flower

Edit: As some have asked, I made a template Hex Flower. Please let me know if it is useful (and/or needs changes)

Setting specific example 

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11 thoughts on “Hex Power Flower – Weather”

  1. IC VanWyhe

    Do d6 + d8 instead of the d7s. Adjust the numbers for which direction to move to account for the new distribution (https://anydice.com/program/174d)… or don’t. Whatever works for you.

    I ran across someone do a similar hex based weather table on some blog a few years back, but I seem to have lost the link in a reformat.

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    1. Peter Cobcroft

      Weather always seems to be assumed at temperate latitudes and spring or autumn. Either there should be zones in hexes for latitude and season, or separate flowers. Or possibly just symbols and different legends. On a side note, only some areas of the earth have four seasons, just like some areas of the earth have longer periods of light and dark.

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      1. Goblin's Henchman Post author

        In ‘ItHotS’, I originally had a temperature HF. These temperatures were phrased in terms of a relative scale to the current season, i.e. “unseasonably” hot/cold etc. So unseasonably hot for winter was probably still colder than unseasonably cold for summer. I dropped it to fit the whole thing on one page (and for simplicity).

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      2. Peter Cobcroft

        Currently looking at climate on wikipedia – the Köppen categorisations are pretty interesting. There’s good example cities listed for each type as well, so it might be an idea to have “here’s the range if you want the area to be like [suchandsuch city/country]” – that said though, it’s not really relevant to sea travel.

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  4. Laramie Wall

    Henchman. I feel like you normally do a stellar job. But this time, this is hall of fame material. This is the most elegant, quick, consistent, weather generator I’ve ever seen. Everything else either can have unrealistic swings due to easy randomization, or requires calculus and proficiency with an abacus. Well done.

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  6. kelaos

    I’ve been using this in my weekly game for _years_ now (specifically Korbi’s weather hex flower) and I love how it feels.

    I’ve been tempted to make the d6+d8 swap you suggested and make my own seasonal flowers, but haven’t gotten to it yet. The other ideas you’ve proposed here and elsewhere are quite intriguing, I haven’t used them yet for map generations etc but they sound like they’d be great for that.

    I come back to this post frequently, it’s a fantastic resource thanks for making it!

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