Hexcrawl Horrors: Random Wilderness Encounters for OSR Adventures
A downloadable zine
Hexcrawl Horrors is a collection of ten D100 wilderness encounter tables for OSR RPGs organised by terrain type.
Created using the monsters of Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game, it's ideal for use in any OSR-style tabletop RPG with minimal conversion of stats. If you don't own BFRPG, just download the two Basic Fantasy Field Guides (bestiaries) for free.
When your players are hexcrawling across an unknown land in a sandbox campaign and you want the option of rolling up almost any type of monster appropriate to the terrain, just look up the relevant table and roll. Animals and humanoids are most common in natural environments, with magical creatures and monstrous beasts making rarer appearances except in the more dangerous types of terrain.
This zine includes the following encounter tables:
- Plains
- Forests
- Hills
- Swamps
- Mountains
- Deserts
- Jungles
- Wastelands
- Caves
- Tombs
And as a bonus it includes a system for generating three types of travelling merchants and determining what they have for sale.
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The download includes two PDFs: one with the pages in spreads and one without. If you want to view it digitally I recommend using the spreads.
Development log
- Bug Fix41 days ago
- Fixed Printing Issue42 days ago
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This is awesome!! Very well thought out. I love how the monsters are listed in order of Hit Dice, I love the easy to reference page numbers, I love the extra encounters. Thank you so much for making it.
Oh wow thanks mate! I appreciate the kind words, it started as a basic tool I was using just for myself but I thought if I'm going to release it I should make it as easy to use as possible. I'm a big fan of your Youtube channel actually, your design style influenced the halftone print look :)
Wow, thank you for the kind words! I've actually been making encounter lists for myself (I've been trying to make some specific to Sword & Sorcery for OD&D) and this really has some great ideas on laying that information out. So you've influenced and helped me, as well! :D