Today’s theme is “Vast.”
This is my opportunity to talk about my megadungeon and
potential hexcrawl campaigns. Because one thing that sets a megadungeon or
hexcrawl apart from any other campaign type is its sheer size. This allows
players to have a large amount of agency even though the campaign can be very
structured. The party can kick down any door they like in the megadungeon and I
have a map key that tells me what’s behind it. The party can explore any hex in
the hexmap and I will have some notes, whether that’s a full dungeon, a city,
or just a unique random encounter table.
The big challenge with such a campaign is the amount of
information that you must generate to make it work. I was fortunate with my
megadungeon campaign, in that I had a working megadungeon from the start in the
form of the Castle of the Mad Archmage. While the map for my hexcrawl doesn’t
have a lot of civilization on it, it does have many other features. It has
terrain that the party must navigate as they explore.
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