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Sounds like a great session! A fun little detail. Is that a rule in LL, or a ruling you made on the spot?

Funny, I just read an article by Keith Baker (the guy who made the Eberron campaign setting), where he uses the exact same example - a bartender watering down his drinks. It's a solid reflection on alignment in the D&D world, answering the question of how evil can exist in a world where paladins...

That works well. Obviously in forests etc line of sight would be much shorter. How do you run content inside of one of the hexes, though? This approach seems well suited to a multi-layered type of wilderness that @Melan posted a link to earlier, where each hex can have a pointcrawl or similar...

Lots of interesting points here. So are you running 6 mile hexes? In other words, when the players are in one hex, they don't see stuff in surrounding hexes? How big is your map? Also, do you have any level scaling in place (like, the further out, the higher level things are)? My last post...

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🍻 A challenge with this concept is that there aren't any settlements (human ones, anyway) where the players can get more information about the local area. So you gotta have a good rumor mill in town, lots of information discoverable "in the wild", and/or players who see the value of...

Really glad I found this thread, lots of good points here. I've been obsessing over the idea of a wilderness exploration for years now, ever since reading about the West Marches campaign, the Alexandrian's excellent hexcrawling procedures, and playing Skyrim with tons of survival mods. The...