"hex crawl" meaning in English

See hex crawl in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: hex crawls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} hex crawl (plural hex crawls)
  1. (roleplaying games) A style of role-playing game in which players navigate an outdoor setting detailed on a hexagonal grid map, encountering monsters and hazards and visiting settlements and locales. Usually populated using tables for randomizing encounters, events, and weather. Categories (topical): Role-playing games Synonyms: hex-crawl, hexcrawl Related terms: dungeon crawl
    Sense id: en-hex_crawl-en-noun-wf9S-a50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Undetermined quotations with omitted translation

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for hex crawl meaning in English (2.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hex crawls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hex crawl (plural hex crawls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Undetermined quotations with omitted translation",
          "parents": [
            "Quotations with omitted translation",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Role-playing games",
          "orig": "en:Role-playing games",
          "parents": [
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The RPG Handbook ~ Getting Started, Thistle Games, 2013, page 151: “A Hex-crawl offers one of the simplest approaches to forming open-ended campaign worlds.”"
        },
        {
          "text": "Matthew Beilman (2020 July 20) “Dungeons & Dragons: A Guide to Hexcrawls”, in CBR.com: “Hexcrawls are also known as wilderness adventures, hearkening back to the days when the entire game could be boiled down to either murder-hobos in dungeons or murder-hobos in the bush, but really any expansive and unexplored landmass could qualify for a hexcrawl today.”"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Coleman Gailloreto (2021 March 28) “Star Trek-Style Tabletop RPGs For Fans Of Peaceful Space Exploration”, in Screen Rant",
          "text": "Stars Without Number is an extremely detailed space opera sci-fi RPG heavily influenced by the \"Old School Revival\" game design movement, with extensive rules for creating characters with technical, social, combat, and psychic abilities, designing custom spaceships, and exploring new, unfamiliar star systems in a twist on \"hex crawl\" gameplay."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A style of role-playing game in which players navigate an outdoor setting detailed on a hexagonal grid map, encountering monsters and hazards and visiting settlements and locales. Usually populated using tables for randomizing encounters, events, and weather."
      ],
      "id": "en-hex_crawl-en-noun-wf9S-a50",
      "links": [
        [
          "roleplaying game",
          "roleplaying game"
        ],
        [
          "role-playing game",
          "role-playing game"
        ],
        [
          "hexagon",
          "hexagon"
        ],
        [
          "grid",
          "grid"
        ],
        [
          "monster",
          "monster"
        ],
        [
          "settlement",
          "settlement"
        ],
        [
          "locale",
          "locale"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "roleplaying games",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(roleplaying games) A style of role-playing game in which players navigate an outdoor setting detailed on a hexagonal grid map, encountering monsters and hazards and visiting settlements and locales. Usually populated using tables for randomizing encounters, events, and weather."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "dungeon crawl"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hex-crawl"
        },
        {
          "word": "hexcrawl"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hex crawl"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hex crawls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hex crawl (plural hex crawls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "dungeon crawl"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Undetermined quotations with omitted translation",
        "Undetermined terms with quotations",
        "en:Role-playing games"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The RPG Handbook ~ Getting Started, Thistle Games, 2013, page 151: “A Hex-crawl offers one of the simplest approaches to forming open-ended campaign worlds.”"
        },
        {
          "text": "Matthew Beilman (2020 July 20) “Dungeons & Dragons: A Guide to Hexcrawls”, in CBR.com: “Hexcrawls are also known as wilderness adventures, hearkening back to the days when the entire game could be boiled down to either murder-hobos in dungeons or murder-hobos in the bush, but really any expansive and unexplored landmass could qualify for a hexcrawl today.”"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Coleman Gailloreto (2021 March 28) “Star Trek-Style Tabletop RPGs For Fans Of Peaceful Space Exploration”, in Screen Rant",
          "text": "Stars Without Number is an extremely detailed space opera sci-fi RPG heavily influenced by the \"Old School Revival\" game design movement, with extensive rules for creating characters with technical, social, combat, and psychic abilities, designing custom spaceships, and exploring new, unfamiliar star systems in a twist on \"hex crawl\" gameplay."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A style of role-playing game in which players navigate an outdoor setting detailed on a hexagonal grid map, encountering monsters and hazards and visiting settlements and locales. Usually populated using tables for randomizing encounters, events, and weather."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "roleplaying game",
          "roleplaying game"
        ],
        [
          "role-playing game",
          "role-playing game"
        ],
        [
          "hexagon",
          "hexagon"
        ],
        [
          "grid",
          "grid"
        ],
        [
          "monster",
          "monster"
        ],
        [
          "settlement",
          "settlement"
        ],
        [
          "locale",
          "locale"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "roleplaying games",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(roleplaying games) A style of role-playing game in which players navigate an outdoor setting detailed on a hexagonal grid map, encountering monsters and hazards and visiting settlements and locales. Usually populated using tables for randomizing encounters, events, and weather."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hex-crawl"
    },
    {
      "word": "hexcrawl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hex crawl"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.