Hex-Crawl Tracker

Explore a hex map one hex at a time. Set terrain and features as you discover them, place your party, move in any of six directions, hide the unexplored with fog of war and keep a travel log. It saves on your device, works offline and prints.

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What is a hex-crawl?

A hex-crawl divides the land into hexagons, each about a day's travel or one scene of exploration. You move from hex to hex, and each new hex asks the same questions: what is the terrain, is anything here, and does something happen? It is a favourite format for solo play because the map gives you structure and the dice give you surprises, and you only ever read one hex at a time.

How to use it in solo play

  1. Pick a map size. A small map of about seven by six hexes is plenty for a first journey. Open Map size to change it.
  2. Place your party. Select a hex, set its terrain, and press I am here. You can start in a town, a camp or a crossroads, and add a feature such as a settlement.
  3. Step into the unknown. Use the move buttons. Each new hex asks for its terrain. Choose it yourself, or press Roll terrain, which keeps the land the same about half the time and otherwise picks any terrain.
  4. Ask what is here. Check the weather, ask the oracle whether anything is nearby, and roll an encounter or a random event when the scene needs one. Add a feature and a note so you remember it.
  5. Use fog of war. Turn it on to see terrain only for hexes you have explored, so the map shows what your hero knows.
  6. Keep the story. Add the travel log to your Campaign Notebook journal, then write what happened. The travel and journeys guide has questions for each leg.

Hex-crawl or point-crawl?

Use a hex-crawl when the ground between places matters: wilderness, borderlands, a sandbox to wander. Use a point-crawl when only the named places and the routes between them matter. You can combine them by tracking a region here and the towns on it there.

Saving, printing and backup

Nothing is uploaded. The map lives in your browser on this device, and it never sends you a notification. Download a backup file now and then, and restore it on another device with Restore from file. Print gives a clean black-and-white map where terrain is shown by letters, or choose Save as PDF.

This tracker is system-neutral: a hex is whatever distance your game says, and it uses no rules from any published game.

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