Travel rules
Resources:
https://www.prismaticwasteland.com/blog/hexcrawl-checklist-part-two https://www.paperspencils.com/structuring-encounter-tables-amended-restated/ https://viridianvoid.bearblog.dev/d666-tables-for-triangle-agency/ https://blog.d4caltrops.com/2018/03/wilderness-hexes-version-10.html
Normal Trail Road
Plains 3/4 1 1 Forest 1/2 1 1 Hills 1/2 3/4 1 Mountains 1/2 3/4 3/4
The "HOT AND WET" weather table: Roll 2d6 and read them left to right. Any 1s are Hot and Wet, respectively. Any 6s, opposite. (Relative to the expected weather for the season.)
D6 FIRST SECOND -- ----- ------ 1 hot wet 2-5 normal normal 6 cold dry
2D6 REACTION --- -------- 2 Hostile, reacting as negatively as is plausible 3-5 Negative, unfriendly and unhelpful 6-8 Neutral, reacting predictably or warily 9-11 Positive, potentially cooperative with PCs 12 Friendly, helpful as is plausible to be
D6 RESULT -- ------ 1 Encounter spots players at a distance 2 Players spot encounter at a distance 3-4 Signs / Tracks 6 Lair
Unintelligent d12; Intelligent d30 (d10 + d6/2)
You are...
D6 RESULT -- ------ 1-3 Useful 4-5 Unworthy of being noticed 6 Enemies / a threat
What a wizard might want from you
bag of Teeth foot of a traveler secret never uttered blasting powder toad farts your next 3 dreams the fur of a trout egg of a giant toad heart of troll dragon urine mistletoe picked under a triple full moon black dungeon jelly giant toenails
1 Gobble you up 2 Curious 3 - 6 Demands tribute
2D6 RESULT --- ------ 2 DRAGON 3 - 6 LOCAL 7 RECURRING NPC 8 xStarving dire bear escaped from an abandoned moleman zoo deep underground 9 Flock of bitebats 10 xBejeweled Snails collecting taxes for the Gilded Gastropod 11 UNDERWORLD Creature 12 WIZARD
1 Goliath 2 Firbold 3 Fomorian 4 Ogre 5 Half-Giant 6 Cyclopes 7 Troll 8 Oni 9 Ettin 10 Verbeeg
1 Skeleton 2 Fungoid 3 Grimlock 4 Giant Centipede 5 Slimy Fishman (Kuo-Toa) 6 Stinky Lizardman (Troglodyte) 7 Snat 8 Zombie 9 Goblin 10 Fungoid
Encounter: 1 in 6
Landmark: 1 in 6
Encounters
2d6 Result --- ------ 3 d6 Dino-Rider Halflings (Velociraptor + Bandit) hunting Land Crabs 4 Towering Ant Mounds dripping with honey, moans and growls of bears (Bears Fruit) 5 Giant land crabs following the anual Medusae Migration 6 Tyrannosaurus Rex
Landmarks
Encounter: 2 in 6
Landmark: 1 in 6
2d6 Result --- ------ 3 Fauns guarding a concrete slab 4 Bush brats racing some pixies through the forest 5 Lumbering Honeybear 6 Path is flooded because a dire beaver dammed up the river
Unused:
Giant toad sitting on a giant egg Awakened Shrubs blocking the path Shardik / The Biggest Bear
Landmarks
Encounter: 2 in 6
Landmark: 1 in 6
2d6 Result --- ------ 3 Chupacabra pulling a cart of semi-tame bitebats 4 Hyena Man 5 Drunken Dwarf wrestling a Bear 6 A large goat folly full of huge cyclopean goats tended to by a large firbolg
Unused:
Bloodhawk mating season
Landmarks:
Encounter: 3 in 6
Landmark: 1 in 6
2d6 Result --- ------ 3 Caged rabbit surrounded by d4+1 bloody and butchered corpses 4 Fungoid 5 Giant Centipede 6 Green Knight mostly buried in a thicket
Landmarks
https://osrvault.com/100-roadside-encounters/
Encounter: 4 in 6
Landmark: 1 in 6
3 Hag cart 4 Defiled Shrine 5 Giant Sinkhole, Animals (deer, fox) wearing Paper Crowns deep in Prayer 6 Goblin Trap: "Danjur ahed. Folo othur rod"
Landmarks: