{"id":40,"date":"2017-07-23T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/23\/strathos-map-using-hex-kit\/"},"modified":"2020-05-30T11:03:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T15:03:46","slug":"strathos-map-using-hex-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/23\/strathos-map-using-hex-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Strathos map using Hex Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The new DCC campaign (campaign in the loose sense of the term) now has a map!<\/p>\n<p>I made it using<a href=\"http:\/\/hex-kit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Hex Kit<\/a>. After spending about a year looking at various map creation tools like Hexographer, Campaign Cartographer, and others, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/coneofnegativeenergy.com\/hexkit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hex Kit<\/a> and it makes the most sense for me and what I want to do.<\/p>\n<p>I can easily make a map, I can make it abstract, I can add to it later, I can make it in layers, I can add labels and Fog of War, it&#8217;s super cost effective, and it looks good! This image was exported as a .png, then I added a filter to make it look grittier, and turned it into a jpeg. Normally, it would be more brighter without the filter.<\/p>\n<p>The village is where the player&#8217;s Zero level characters are from. The Telescope Tower is the location of their first adventure (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotfp.com\/RPG\/products\/tower-of-the-stargazer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tower of the Stargazer<\/a> by Lamentations of the Flame Princess, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/ruinerofworlds.blogspot.com\/2017\/04\/dcc-tower-of-stargazer-play-report.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">play report here<\/a>), and the Portal is the location of their next adventure (Portal Under the Stars by Goodman Games, in case you&#8217;re wondering).<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-cWsdeBgNTE4\/WXTBYwIIkaI\/AAAAAAAACYo\/6TM6FQaRVP89XaJnhSsxKaoNjY1GTvxEACLcBGAs\/s1600\/Strathos%2B1%2BDisplay%2BSunscreen.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"900\" data-original-width=\"1245\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-cWsdeBgNTE4\/WXTBYwIIkaI\/AAAAAAAACYo\/6TM6FQaRVP89XaJnhSsxKaoNjY1GTvxEACLcBGAs\/s320\/Strathos%2B1%2BDisplay%2BSunscreen.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new DCC campaign (campaign in the loose sense of the term) now has a map! I made it using Hex Kit. After spending about a year looking at various map creation tools like Hexographer, Campaign Cartographer, and others, I found Hex Kit and it makes the most sense for me and what I want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/23\/strathos-map-using-hex-kit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strathos map using Hex Kit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[341,283],"tags":[402,403,407],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-games","tag-hex-kit","tag-maps","tag-strathos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpgpunk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}