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hex crawl

hex crawl noun: 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.

Noun

hex crawl (plural hex crawls)

  1. (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, 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: “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...

Forms of hex crawl

pluralhex crawls
alternative formhex-crawl
alternative formhexcrawl

Questions about hex crawl

What does hex crawl mean?
Hex crawl means 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.
What part of speech is hex crawl?
Hex crawl is a noun.
What is the plural of hex crawl?
The plural of hex crawl is hex crawls.

Words near hex crawl in the dictionary

  1. Hewson
  2. hewwo
  3. hex
  4. hex bar
  5. hex bars
  6. hex crawl
  7. hex crawls
  8. hex edit
  9. hex edited
  10. hex editing
  11. hex editor

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