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Big Hexyland Modular Fantasy World $5.00
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Big Hexyland Modular Fantasy World
Publisher: Blue Boxer Rebellion
by Alastair M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 08/26/2015 04:33:38

This is one of those products you see and then just have to buy straightaway - or it was in my case! From its bright, lively colours, through the excellent detail provided for each map, including evocative name-labels like Hardscrabble Vale, The Iron Sea, Skygard, Dreadmoon and many more, the juxtaposition of beautifully-drawn terrain features, the novel use of larger-scale hexagons for different land areas, and the provision of node-maps showing how to get from place to place, with notes on who-lives-where-doing-what-to-whom-and-why, to its intended 3D-look design layout, with mountain-peaks and other uplands extending beyond the hex boundaries, this just seemed a real delight. And so it's proven in reality!

A "normal"-setting home-inkjet printout will get you clear, fully legible text pages, though rather pale hex artwork, which latter is best realised using a suitably high-quality print setting on good matt photo paper or card with such a printer. The final maps could be mounted to thicker card hexagons (so the protruding-edge terrain can overlap the adjacent hexes still), and maybe even varnished, or laminated, to give them extra durability.

The descriptive node maps should give enough snippets of information to get the creative juices working for most GMs, if necessary. Some of the creatures referred to would have benefited from a little more detail, such as the pterripus (Midwaste & Jade Coast maps) and the ivory-bearing megaphant (Plainsea - presumably a form of huge elephant). Although the pterripus - a type of flying horse - did feature in Blue Boxer's prototype rulebook for the "Dungeonteller Fantasy RPG", still available in August 2015 on the publisher's blog as a free PDF, it didn't make the cut into the published rules or monster volumes unfortunately.

Maybe some cutting outlines - just a skywash blue background shading, say - could have helped novice papercrafters work out better where to cut the irregular map edges in places. Those with a little more experience won't need them though, and it's scarcely a real fault in this overall stunningly gorgeous set.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Big Hexyland Modular Fantasy World
Publisher: Blue Boxer Rebellion
by Dillard R. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/18/2015 22:35:46

I have had this product for some time. I love it. Great originality. Very evocative. I like the story lines presented with each map. This product is well worth the price. However, with the creation of Big Hexyland2 I am wondering if it would be possible to use some of those features on this product. Layers would be great as an update. Being able to print these maps for players while hiding certain aspects from them would be great. The lack of these layers is the main reason I gave this three stars.



Rating:
[3 of 5 Stars!]
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Big Hexyland Modular Fantasy World
Publisher: Blue Boxer Rebellion
by Christopher N. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/12/2014 07:57:40

Big Hexyland is a set of nine hex-shaped, vector image maps which can be arranged any way you like to form a fantasy campaign map. Since the maps are vector images, they scale very well. In fact, you could take these maps to a print shop and have them printed on a large format printer with no loss in quality. Each map has a companion "node map" identifying each regions important locations and travel times. There are plenty of plot hooks and adventure ideas on each map, giving idea-starved GMs a great tool for generating plot elements or story arcs. If I have one complaint, it's that I wish I could edit the text in the hex maps and the node maps to truly customize the world. But this is a minor quibble and in no way detracts from the product. In fact, I'll probably just use them as is. I hope to see more Big Hexyland maps from Blue Boxer Rebellion in the future.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Big Hexyland Modular Fantasy World
Publisher: Blue Boxer Rebellion
by Aaron H. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 06/05/2014 21:27:30

When I first saw this as a new release, I thought to myself, "That thing looks frickin' cool!" So I went ahead and spent the mere $5 the generous publisher was asking for and opened it immediately. After opening it, I realized, "Yeah, this thing IS frickin' cool!"

But why is it so cool? Well, for one thing, creating a full fantasy world map (or rather a continent/country) can be a lot of work and very taxing on the imagination. Especially if you don't have the time to flesh it out. Plus, you have to make it somewhat realistic or at least put interesting environmental features. These megahexes not only do all the work for you, you can ultimately mix and match them as you please (with a little fudging the borders, no big deal though) to create whatever fantasy world you want!

The only thing that would make this better is Big Hexyland Modular Fantasy World, Volume II with even more hexes to choose from.

This is definitely the perfect starting point for creating your own fantasy world; even if you only use it as a reference!



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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