Hexplorations: Magic Gates

Our Hexplorations (charts for details of things you may encounter in a hex crawl or simply developing your world) resumes with its 8th installment! It was on hiatus for a couple of weeks as we fulfilled our recent Sidequest Decks Kickstarter–now available on Amazon and our store.

To use this chart simply roll for each column or look at the options for inspiration or use a combination of the two approaches. For example, you may roll 4-1-2-3-6 resulting in an old, but well maintained magic gate made to look like a cavern entrance and covered in tribal symbols.  It opens via a puzzle, and will take you to one of the Lower Planes, perhaps the 9 Hells (which we’re currently making map icons for via our Patreon.) Note: The chart has a “Middle Planes” destination option. This was simply an easy way for us to break up the 18 outer planes commonly used into  three groups (upper, lower and middle) instead of other ways to group them.  A couple upper and lower planes were moved to this group so each has 6 options.

Hopefully these charts and ideas can be the basis of most of the key details to any magic gate the PCs may find in your game. Customize the results to fit your setting as needed and as inspiration strikes!