Creative Project: Hexcrawl25

So those plugged into the ttrpg scene may remember Dungeon23 in which participating people built up a megadungeon over 2023 by adding a room a day to a map, along with details about what was in the room, etc, and posted about it with Dungeon23 as a hashtag. Others modifying it to make City23 where you would do much the same but building up a city map over 2023 instead. And last year apparently Lore24 was a thing in which people participating in the project would write up one bit of lore (a bit of history, an item, prominent figures, whatever) each day for their game world, with Lore24 as a hashtag. Well, this year the thing would look to be any of the above with the number incremented to 25 or #Hexcrawl25 in which you take a hexflower* of 25 regional hexes on a hex map, which are each subdivided into smaller sub-hexes so you have 319 total zoomed in hexes, and over the course of 2025 go from blank map to a reasonably decent sized area one could explore. If you go with the recommended 24 mile wide regional hexes then you end up with a sort-of-circular (kinda sorta hex shaped) region 120 miles across. Or if you want something you can compare that too, a little bit smaller than the square miles of Maryland. Or for folks in Europe an area larger than Albania but smaller then Belgium (* a hex flower is what you call the collection of one or more rings of hexes around a central hexagon, presumably because it looks a bit like flower petals around the center of a flower. In this case a central hexagon surrounded by two rings of hexagons)

Anyway, even though the year is almost 15% of the way along, I've decided to start in on this, although because reasons (oh look! Over there! Is that a convenient distraction!) instead of simply printing a blank map or making use of any of a number of preexisting hex mapping programs I spent a chunk of last week working out how to make a hex map in Inkscape, with large and small sized hexes meshed together. Anyway... Not a whole world, just a nice sized region.

( World building notes within for those who are interested )