A Hex a Week: Week 8

This week, I've been focusing in on a stretch of countryside on the road to the more populated coast. For the next few weeks, I think I'll look North into the Pyrenees proper and leave these foothills and lowlands I've been detailing for next month.

A Hex a Week: Week 6/7

Lately, I've been a bit burnt out after rushing to finish a project, so I took a break from this blog for a week. As for the project, you may have noticed there's now an itch.io link in my sidebar, where you can find Pythion of the Mad Oracle, my submission to the Jennell Jaquays Memorial Game Jam. It was a lot of fun to write, but combined with my weekly games it meant a lot of RPG time for a couple weeks there, so I've been resting since.

This week, I've focused in on the area around a fabled wizard's coveted tower, with some nearby Germans to pantomime through a language barrier at.

A Hex a Week: Week 5

Another short one this week. I've been quite busy working on something that I'm not quite ready to put up yet, but that will see the light of day in due time. This week's hex lies along an old Roman road, and is home to plenty of desolate and forgotten landmarks. It's a lonely place, even as bandits remain a constant threat.

A Hex a Week: Week 4

This past week, I've focused in on an area deeply scarred by war. It'll probably be clear that I've been reading Don Rodriguez lately by the name of this hex and some of its contents. I've been trying to get a bit less sketchy with my doodles, still a long way to go on that, but progress is being made.

A Hex a Week: Week 3

I ended up putting this project on hold for the holidays, now that we're actually into 2024 I've picked back up with the first actual week of the new year. This week I've focused in on the nearby forests, filled with abandoned ruins and ancient megalithic sites.

A Hex a Week: Week 2

This week was pretty busy for me so I only managed to complete three pages. This Hex is just North of the one from last week, and is home to the summer pastures of the village from that Hex, currently inaccessible due to a Giant that calls them his own.

A Hex a Week: Week 1

With 2023 coming to a close, I've decided to start a new project in the vein of Dungeon23, to make up for never finishing my megadungeon, the Pythion of the Mad Oracle. In 2024 and the last bits of this year, I plan to work up a wilderness setting at a pace of one hex per week. Generally, I will try to write and draw a page related to the week's hex each day, but busy weeks will mean sparse hexes sometimes, and inspired weeks will result in the opposite.

The setting I'll be working on is going to be the Spanish Pyrenees, sometime in the Early Modern period but with plenty of anachronisms making it impossible to really place between the late 16th and early 19th centuries. I'm going for a tone inspired by Spanish Picaresques and, probably to a greater extent, their derivative works, so the Appendix N for this project includes things like Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, the Saragossa Manuscript directed by Wojciech Has, and Puss in Boots, to name the three that are having the biggest influence on me.

Here are the pages of the first week's Hex: