Oh no! You're on a bus or train or something on the way to run a fantasy tabletop game and you forgot to prepare anything! And you only have your mobile phone on you! Plus, one of your hands has been incapacitated for some reason?!
Never fear, use this methodology for quickly whipping up a little hex crawl:
Basic Stock pass
Pull a card, that's what's there in an area of the map, pull more than one card and combine if you want
Keep doing this until you are bored /fill the map
History pass
Pull a card, that thing travels across the land doing what you think it would, starting and ending where you think is most appropriate
It leaves behind items, environments, new places, factions, etc
Do this again until you are bored
Present pass
Pull a card, this is an important thing in the area, doing what you think it would, being fought over by who you think it would, it is located where you think is most appropriate
Do this again until you are bored
Loose ends pass
See if you can connect any of the extant elements that exist in interesting ways
Do this until you are bored
Hero pass
Pull a card, this is an important sentient being, it travels across the land doing what you think it would, starting and ending where you think is most appropriate
It leaves behind items, new places, factions, etc
Do this again until you are bored
Shuffle pass
Re do any of above passes as you see fit / are entertained by
Player pass
Put some player characters into the world and see what happens. Maybe they play a hero… or something else?! Pull a random card to determine this if you are brave enough!!!
Conflict
Assume most things are successful in what they attempt, favour the active, roll a dice if not sure, highest roll wins!
I am not sure if Scryfall includes lands in its search. If you want a slightly different experience you can use the Gatherer random card feature - https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Default.aspx . This will include land cards.
ReplyDeleteVery useful, thank you!
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