hex crawl
A style of role-playing game in which players navigate an outdoor setting detailed on…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.
Meaning
1 sensesA 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.”