Korianis Hex Fill Procedure

Rise by the will of your warlord, creatures.

Korianis is one of the regions in my never-finished Sunless Realms RPG.

Korianis is a land of feudal kingdoms. Barons, dukes, earls. Knights, oaths, dragons. Once united by an emperor, when Tasozek the Insurmountable extinguished the sun his arcano-lords executed the emperor and all his kings, throwing the great kingdoms into disarray.

Now the land is a patchwork mess of broken kingdoms, monster baronies, forgotten castles and ambitious warlords. Villages are secluded, distant. The wilderness, dangerous and crawling with monsters.

These tables are based on Luke Gearings excellent Wolves Upon the Coast Hex Fill Procedure and Wilderness Hexplore, condensed Judges guild rules wilderness generation rules.

Playtest Update

I used these rules in my last three sessions, on the fly, to stock some hexes. In short, they aren’t as good as gearings hex fills. They don’t do an awfully good job of creating gameable stuff (at least for the kind of game I’m running) and are a bit too strict to allow for the creative flexibility compared to Gearings tables. Maybe it’s just me, but my mind goes completely blank when I roll up a castle with a 4th level fighter leader. What does this mean at the table? Worked for Gary. Doesn’t for me.

Addendum: The major reason for the failing of this rule is because the tables say nothing about how a castle encounter is meant to go. As such, the information they provide is useless. However, the AD&D DMG provides some real guidance on this. A friendly reaction is one where the host is hospitable and friendly, entertaining their guests. A neutral reaction will turn guests away unless they win against some from of non-lethal combat (confiscating armor or weapons on loss), a hostile one is either outright attack or feigning friendliness then attacking when they are drunk! I’m going to talk about this more shortly.

d20	Korianis Hex Fill
1-10	Nothing
11-13	Ruin1
14-15	Lair
16-17	Settlement2
18	Temple / Shrine
19	Castle
20	Weird3

Lair

Place monsters and treasure as you will (perhaps using the one-roll varied treasure hoard generator?)

Temple / Shrine

Temples are places of worship. Shrines are places where religious activities are performed.

d6	Temple Type
1-4	Shrine
5-6	Temple

d6	Temple Alignment
1-3	Lawful Saint
4-5	Chaotic Saint
6	Foreign God

Temples

d6	Temple Size	Population
1-3	Chapel	d100
4-5	Abbey	3d6 x 10 + 25% chance for a level-d6 cleric leader
6	Compound	d10 x 100 + level-d10 cleric leader

Shrines

d6	Shrine Type	Value if Stolen
1-3	Offering	3d6 x 10 gold
4-5	Activity (cleansing, sacrifice, communing, etc)	d10 x 100 gold
6	Restraining Evil	d5 x 500 gold (releases evil if stolen)

Offering shrines have a chance to reward those of matching alignment

d6	Reward for Shrine Offering
1-3	Good Fortune (nothing)
4-5	+1 luck
6	Weird4

Castles

Countless castles dot Korianis from times immemorial. On anything other than a positive reaction, if the characters are spotted by the castle inhabitants (3-in-6 in castles hex), the ruler of the castle will ride out to meet them, demanding the tithe. If it isn’t met, they will either attack or chase intruders out of their domain.

d6	Castle Status	Inhabitants	Stored Treasure5
1-3	Ruined (50% chance monster inhabitant)	As monster lair	As monster lair
4-5	Inhabited	3d6 x 10 guards + ruler + (10%) special ally	3d6 dice
6	Under Construction	d6 x 10 guards + 2d6 x 10 laborers + ruler	d6 dice

d6	Special Lawful Ally	Special Chaotic Ally
1	d6 Griffons	Chimera
2	d6 Earth Elementals	d10 Spectres
3	d8 Dwarfs	d4 Basilisks
4	d4 Wyverns	d4 Giants
5	d10 Treants	d12 Lycanthropes
6	Roc	Dragon

d6	Castle Ruler	Demanded Tithe
1-4	Level-d4+4 fighter	d6 x 100 gold
5	Level-d10+2 fighter	d6 x 500 gold
6	Tyrannical monster!	Magic items / supplies / food

d6	Castle Notes
1-3	Relationship to Nearby Hex
4	Boon or Ally
5	Quest
6	Weird6

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1. Refer to Wilderness Hexplore↩︎

2. Refer to Wolves Hex Fills↩︎

3. Refer to Wolves Hex Fills↩︎

4. Refer to Wolves Hex Fills↩︎

5. Using the one-roll varied treasure hoard generator↩︎

6. Refer to Wolves Hex Fills↩︎

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