OD&D Basilisk Hills Hexcrawl Kickstarter

thirdkingdom

Hero
Publisher
I'm planning on launching a Kickstarter in about a month to compile and expand on the seven hexes in the Basilisk Hills cluster from the Populated Hexes series. There will be three options to back: the compiled existing seven hexes (about 150 pages), almost one hundred new, broadly filled out hexes (another 150 pages), or the existing compiled along with the new, to create a hexcrawl location about the size of Puerto Rico.

Pre-launch page is here: Coming soon: Basilisk Hills Hexcrawl Region
 

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aco175

Legend
I clicked on the description and all it said was coming soon and click here to be notified. Is there a version for 5e or just OD&D?
 


thirdkingdom

Hero
Publisher
Sorry about that. This is my first time doing the Kickstarter preview page (acting on Morrus's advice) and I'm still getting used to the interface. For a couple of years now I've been producing a series of hexes in the Populated Hexes series, written for Necrotic Gnome's Old School Essentials. Each hex in the series is about 25-30 pages of content, with about half being a 6-mile hex broken down into smaller 1.2 mile hexes and populated with features and lairs. The rest of the books is supplemental stuff to expand OSR-style games -- the Appendices add more race as class options, rules to create magical items and spells, creating constructs, etc.

Here's a sample page from one of the books:

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The hexes are designed to be used either by themselves, but they're produced in "clusters" of seven hexes -- a central hex and the six surrounding hexes -- so they can be used individually as single hex encounter locations or as mini-sandbox locations. As part of the Kickstarter I will be compiling the seven hexes of the Basilisk Hills cluster into a single book/pdf, but I've also got nearly one hundred additional hexes that detail the surrounding terrain in broad strokes. Those will look like this:
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thirdkingdom

Hero
Publisher
In preparation for the upcoming Basilisk Hills Compiled Kickstarter I've put one of the hexes that will be included in the book on sale for 75% off (a mere 74 cents!):

 

thundershot

Adventurer
Man, if these were 5E I’d be all over them! I don’t have time to convert things anymore, but I enjoy me some hexes! I love old school adventures with new age rules. (Running Isle of Dread 5E right now)
 

thirdkingdom

Hero
Publisher
Man, if these were 5E I’d be all over them! I don’t have time to convert things anymore, but I enjoy me some hexes! I love old school adventures with new age rules. (Running Isle of Dread 5E right now)

I've thought about adapting them to 5e, but I don't have the system mastery of 5e to do it. Additionally, there's a bunch of supplemental stuff in the hexes that would be pointless to adapt to 5e (OSE uses race-as-class, so a fair amount of the supplemental stuff is new classes, spells, etc).
 


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