Most fantasy players have heard of hexcrawl systems for sand

What's a hexcrawl?

>>55164738
It's a hexagonal map for exploration type games.
http://www.runagame.net/2014/03/the-hex-crawl.html?m=1

>>55164717
Good to see I'm not the first to consider such systems. I was considering them for a HoMM clone, but yeah, could be useful for tabletop too.

>>55164717
Hexcrawls work because they cover wide open areas, while that pointcrawl system is basically a non-mapping-intensive form of dungeon crawl. They can both be used at different levels of granularity. Any pointcrawl used to represent a wide-open world would... basically look like a hexcrawl map.

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I played a point crawl that masqueraded as a pathcrawl: it was called Zork.
And so many of the old Sierra adventure games.
Look at this map - it's those old adventure games again.