Outdoor Survival Remix
A downloadable hexmap
This is a remixed version of the board game map that was recommended by Gary Gygax & Dave Arneson in OD&D. These maps were made in R & QGIS and are designed to mimic the geography of the original map while having slightly more realistic hydrology. See here for more details.
There are three versions: classic presents terrain features in the same locations as the 1972 game. Remixed shuffles around the terrain while keeping the same ratio of mountains, open, forest, desert, wetland, & major rivers. Island re-imagines the map (again with the same amount of each terrain type) as a cluster of islands.
Just for fun I also included a printable workbook pdf with lines to write an entry for each hex (classic version only).
Feel free to use them for whatever you want. If you use the maps in a published work (especially the remixed version), credit is appreciated but not required.
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Development log
- Island version added17 hours ago
- Remixed map added2 days ago
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One idea: on the islands map, instead of deleted castles and settlements because they are submerged, keep that as lairs and such for Nixies, Pixies, Aquamancers, etc. Perhaps even keeping some of the detail of the now submerged terrain with deeper and shallow places, and sea valleys, etc.
These are amazing, idraluna.
Thanks for sharing all this fun work to support out hobby.
I am by no means slightly able to code, but I was wondering if it would be possible to create a set of alternate maps based on the statistical distribution of the hex tiles?
Good idea! Yeah, it wouldn’t be too tough to make a map with the same number of hexes in each terrain type, but located differently.
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