Hexcrawling for Ethyria pt 1

As my game is small currently I’m going for sandbox style with lots of mission tables and adventure threads in my villages but now I need some more for exploration in the wilderness also handy for stuff you see on the way. It’s nice when players see something on the way and mark it for later or start a sidequest. 

I recommend before hexpolartion starts set missions for players as a group and individuals.

Comunity
Family
Religion 

For Example

I will be giving a community mission from a local leader as a group

One player has family of explorers many who vanished or reported details without a closer look so lots of opportunity here. Family have a exploration and scholarly focus as those the family religion.

Another character has missing family members also and from family with a ship and sailors who worship sea god. So exploration goals fit in this well. His family are also jerks and some might betray him.

Currently, my guys have 75% of a dungeon to explore and a cave they saw and plan to see on the way home. When they return I will get them to explore the western regions of Ethyria possibly with a ship.

Also see this
helped me understand decades of reading greek stuff and the 6000 islands of greece, most unoccupied. Theros book has good island generators.
https://greekreporter.com/2024/07/07/greek-island-groups/

3x d100 tables coming

d12 Common Fetchquest Items

1 Weapon
2 Armour
3 Artwork
4 Animal

5 Person

6 Map

7 Clothing

8 Text

6 City or town

7 Sea or underwater

8 Coastline or Island

9 Swamp or marsh

10 Ruin or haunted house

11 Fort or dungeon

3 Farmhouse

4 Old mill

5 Haunted house

6 Old fort

7 Temple 

8 Dungeon 

9 Abandoned village

10 Manor house estate

11 Labyrythian Palace

12 City of Ancients

d12 Ancient Monuments
1 Menhir or dolmen
2 Cave tomb
3 Hill tomb
4 Hiil fort
5 Cyclopean walls
6 Stone circle

7 Stone altar

8 Cliff carvings

9 Cliff tombs

10 Stone head

11 Stone statue

12 Underworld entrance

d12 Mythic Remains
1 Gigantic petrified bones of giants
2 Huge strange footprints or handprints
3 Crater with burned ash mounds
4 Great charred gouge in the earth
5 Crack in the earth with hallucinogenic gas
6 Hill or rocks with worn remains of petrified creature
7 Cliff with petrified marine creatures
8 Gigantic weapon or armour, corroded or petrified 
9 Giant skull-shaped rock
10 Giant ruined steps or sections of road
11 Ancient text on walls
12 Vast cavern with giant remains inside

d12 Ruin Occupants
1 Human barbarians, partly fortified and repaired
2 Human cultists hiding from civilisation
3 Cyclopsian humanoids (one-eyed orcs)
4 Lion folk clan
5 Lizard folk clan

6 Minotaur or possibly a clan

7 Stymphalian birds or harpies

8 Giant, cyclops or possibly a clan

9 Kallikantzaros gobloin clan

10 Giant guardian serpent or a dragon

11 Medusa or gorgon

12 Chimera

d12 Island Encounters
1 Hermits
2 Human settlers
3 Giant guardian snake
4 Satyrs 

5 Centaurs

6 Nymph or dryad

7 Giant goats or sheep

8 Giant boar or auroch

9 Carnivorous apes

10 Giant or cyclops

11 Sirens or harpies

12 Giant guardian serpent or a dragond12 Island Hexploration
1 Shipwreck
2 Monolith or ancient monolith

3 Burial mound

4 Clif cave

5 Wonster bones or mythic remains

6 Caves

7 Ruins

8 Human remains

9 Pool or lake

10 Patch of woodland

11 Bog or marsh 

12 Semi divine beings home

d12 Mountain Encounters
1 Wolves
2 Giant goats
3 Giant eagle
4 Cyclopsian humanoids (one-eyed orcs) 

5 Centaur

6 Pegasai or Griffons

7 Peryton or manticoere

8 Harpies

9 Sphynx

10 Giant 

11Chimera

12 Dragon

d12 Mountain Hexploration
1 Waterfall
2 Volcanic vent

3 Barbarian village

4 Mine

5 Caves

6 Ruin

7 Tricky climb

8 Monument

9 Rock or mud slide prone area

10 Griffon nest

11 Non-human camp

12 Minerals visible