Upcoming features update before the next year of Hexroll

Season's Greetings, Brave Adventurers

I hope you are having a lovely holiday season.

It's time for a quick update on some recent and upcoming additions to Hexroll, but first, I'd like to thank each and every one of you for supporting the generator and the vision throughout the year. This means so much to me!

During 2022, Hexroll was used to generate over 20,000 custom-made sandboxes, and this is not including the many who used one of the 600,000 auto-generated ones. I hope this translated to many hours of amazing game-time.

Features update:

Built-in note-taking (locally stored)

I'm used to taking notes using a physical notebook, but I recently wanted to start experimenting with keeping notes integrated inside the sandbox.

Hexroll will soon have the ability to add custom notes to hexes, dungeon areas, NPCs and monsters. Notes will be stored locally in the browser profile, with the option to export or import them as a json file. 

Dungeon Doors - traps and more

We now have random door traps and random secret doors details added. The door traps were.. ahmm.. painfully missing until now.

Strongholds, Huts & Farms - more places to find NPCs (and quests)

Adding to settlements, we will soon have more places of residence where you can find interesting NPCs to interact with, or quests to pursue.

All of the above is expected to be rolled-out before Dec 31.

Clickable Settlement Maps

I'm nearly done replicating Watabou's city rendering logic, which was the only way I could reliably get well defined district coordinates. Once I feel pleased with the quality of my code, I will replace the current maps renderer and generate the required hyperlinks to the district descriptions.

I expect this to be done very early 2023.

Other minor improvements

I've also added additional monsters, more situational descriptions and fixed some spelling errors and other bugs. Thanks! everyone who contributed or pointed out these to me.

I might have missed a minor thing or two, but in any case,  please continue sharing your thoughts, suggestions and ideas with me. You can do this via comments here, our Trello board at: https://trello.com/b/H0HWhals/hexroll, the feedback button inside any generated sandbox or a direct message here on Patreon, or at https://instagram.com/pendicepaper.

Here's to an amazing 2023! Have a Wonderful Holidays Season and a very Happy New Year! (and enjoy the crawl..)

Ithai