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Tomb of Annihilation: Running as Hex Crawler w/ Additional Quests Pay What You Want
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
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by Angel R. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 03/09/2018 12:22:43

This is basically a couple of pages that look like a DM's notes for his particular campaign, not something that can be easily customized or dropped in to anybody's campaign. It begins with two pages of why the writer wanted to make this a hex crawler, and then culminates with a numbered list with confusing little blurbs. I can only assume these are the hex encounters, but there's no reference as to which hexes these belong in, or if you should be randomly rolling for what's inside the hexes as you come across them in game. It looks like there are 20 hex blurbs, but they are not listed in order, instead grouped by category, which makes looking through the list all the more confusing. The author has also lifted encounters from other published adventures (Storm King and Princes of the Apocalypse) and simply moved them into Chult, but only the ones that they personally did not encounter in their own personal campaign as a player.

There is a suggestion to add Adventurer's League quests and locations, but no detail on how to incorporate them. There is a list of character bonds at the end that are supposed to help get the characters more involved, but the bonds are not very compelling. The author also advises that you simply ignore the main plot of ToA until someone dies, and instead just run hex exploration.

Overall, it just seems like this is more for one person's personal use and not for the general community to benefit from, not to mention being incomplete. The only good part about this is the base idea: putting something different in each hex as your characters explore.



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Creator Reply:
You are absolutely correct: the majority of the document is me basically complaining about how Tomb of Annihilation could have been so much more. While the middle portion of the document are indeed my own notes, specific to my own map, I was trying to lay out an example. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

I had no intention of indicating that I had the solution to the problem I observed. I had hoped to make this available for people to view for free, more as inspiration than direction (hence my inclusion of the entire document in the long form preview). Also, if you feel that my disclaimer was not clear enough in the incompleteness of the document, I certainly can alter that.

All that being said, if you feel as though this document is not worth any money, I'd be more than happy to try to figure out how to post things for free (I've yet to figure that out). Also, if you feel like you were deceived in the product your were purchasing, I would be more than happy to look into how to reimburse you for the purchase (as I mentioned, I tried to make the long form preview the entire document so that people would know what they were getting). Finally, if you think this item is should be removed from the DMs Guild to protect future customers, I would also be willing to pull it down.
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