A hexcrawl that I made, loosely based on Renaissance poetry and Celtic mythology. Basically
this post but a whole setting instead of a set of tables. Unlike the
last hexcrawl I made, this one is designed to be played with just standard D&D rules.
HEXCRAWL OF THE MARCHER LORDS
The continent of Faerie was colonised once before, by a nameless race of men who sailed west across the trackless Atlantic in the time before the Romans came to Britain. Their dykes and dolmens still scar the land. Their degenerate descendants, the Hairy Men, fell to worshipping pagan gods and became little better than beasts. By the time of St. Brendan the Navigator, who first claimed the continent for Christendom, they were too deeply steeped in sin to greet him with anything but sticks and stones.
The Marcher Lords followed in Brendan’s wake. They hold their corner of Faerie in the name of England’s king, though not a man among them is certain of his name. They keep the peace, suppress the Hairy Men, mount pointless campaigns against each other and sponsor doomed military expeditions into the western wilderness. Their peasants labour as thanklessly as they would in any other feudal state. A steady stream of exiles, rogues and outcasts arrive in the eastern harbours, fleeing persecution or seeking fortune.
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| THE FENS |
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| THE MOUNTAINS |
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| THE DOWNS |
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| THE WOODS |
This is excellent! And very useful for the next section of the campaign I'm running. Keep up the good work, and thank you for sharing this!
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