Here are two more-representative hexes. Each has an adventure and a wonder.   

Here is a sample page from the hex crawl booklet I am building for the Westmarch campaign. The upper left quadrant has the name and terain t...

I've been going through all my 6-mile hexes and assigning each a wandering monster table, an adventure and a wonder. The one-mile hexes ...

In the Westmarch sandbox, I've decided each hex will have a short encounter table with only four monsters plus a Faction entry (based o...

  In the Westmarch sandbox I’m building, each hex will have a unique, very short encounter table. There will be four listings for monsters, ...

I made this. It scratches the itches I need scratched for sandbox info. Here are links to the .doc file and the .pdf.  

 This article originally appeared on February 23, 2018. When someone plays D for the first time, they don't know what they don't kno...

There are two other parts to balancing encounters the old school way that we need to talk about. They are allowing the several players agenc...

  This article originally appeared on July 19th, 2017. Traffic Jam, Level 3A For those of you who are players of modern games, you will ...

We are taught as beginning Referees to construct random encounter tables on a bell curve. After all, mundane encounters (with men and common...