Silveraxe Hex crawl map: Lo-fi Version

 

I'm prepping to run "In the Shadow of Tower Silveraxe" for my online group.

Let me be straight with you: I love the map that's included in the book. The colors and elevation lines are neat and super unique. Somehow though, it just didn't jive with how we roll on Owlbear Rodeo.

So, I made this decidedly "lo-fi" version using the Lumbia Brush Set from K.M. Alexander's site, and Dungeon Scrawl.

Sharing since I think those brushes are pretty cool and the map has a scribbly-but-fun look.

VFDB: Village Generator Fun

 One of my favorite and most visited blogs is d4 Caltrops. It's chock full of amazing d100 tables full of some of the most creative and cool ideas I've ever seen about just about any topic you can imagine. It's also where you can find the amazing OSE Encounter Tables and Wilderness Hexes resources, which are my two most recommended online resources and have been central to all of my prep sessions for the last few years. If you haven't yet seen this blog or those resources in particular you need to check them out! I'm always happy to let folks know about them and express thanks to the author!

Anyways, inspired by a recent post on that blog, I took an hour to muck around online at perchance.org to try my hand at making some simple generators based on my VFDB campaign tools. It's a simple and free site that lets you input lists and have randomly generated results rolled automatically. It presents the output in a nice and tidy way and can be useful depending on how many rolls you need to make to accomplish your task. 

So, I'd like to share my VFDB Village Generator that rolls a village with a unique 'tourist trap' that it's known for and some names and traits for some of the locals you might encounter. It's based off these tables in the VFDB book and online rules: 

 

Now, through the magic of the internet, you can save yourself the wrist-wringing effort of rolling all of those d20's and have all the work done for you at the click of a button!