In the Heart of the Unknown | Procedural Hex Crawling Engine

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In the Heart of the Unknown – A Procedural Hex Crawling Engine

‘In the Heart of the Unknown’ contains procedural Encounter, Terrain and Weather Engines for Wilderness Hex Crawling.

It is in a similar vein as ‘In the Heart of the Sea’, which is a procedural High Seas ‘Hex Crawl’.

Basically, in In the Heart of the Unknown there are three ‘game engines’ in the form of Hex Flowers. One engine drives navigation and encounters. The other two are related to terrain and weather conditions.

Each time you enter a new HEX, you procedurally determine what is in the new HEX starting from the last HEX result. So, Hex Flowers are sort of like a random table but with a memory.

Please see below for a preview. A PDF version can be downloaded here: image_preview  ItHotU

ItHotU - cover.png

More on Hex Flowers
You can read more about this Hex Flowers here

Some Hex Flower Examples here

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InHotS the cover imageMe on DriveThru; at the moment I’m mainly pimping my procedural:
:: High Seas ‘Hex Crawl’ – In the Heart of the Sea,
:: Wilderness Hex Crawl – In the Heart of the Unknown,
:: Dungeon/network generator – In the Heart of the Delve & Dangerous

9 thoughts on “In the Heart of the Unknown | Procedural Hex Crawling Engine”

      1. Goblin's Henchman Post author

        Good question. I thought a little about Hex size, and decided it was unimportant – or rather, anyone using this will have an idea of the density of encounters they like, and so will tailor this to fit their need …

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    1. Steve

      I can’t seem to find any information regarding those 50% squares. Does this mean that the terrain is 50/50 e.g. forested hills, or does this mean there is a 50% chance of forests, and 50% chance of hills?

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      1. Goblin's Henchman Post author

        Hi Steve – good question.
        These are intended to be transitional hexes.
        I intended them to be 50% chance of forests, and 50% chance of hills, but the other option of some hilly forest work too!
        :O)

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