Comment on “Worldbuilding 5c: Hamlet”

I won’t go into the details, but the players in my campaign have just been awarded a teeny tiny land grant. Five acres, undeveloped. They are excited to begin making improvements By calling on the 500 GP of credit one of the characters got from the background generator.

Since we will not play again for a couple weeks (after spring break) I’m busily expanding My conception of the island they are on. I already broke it into 2 mile hexes near the beginning of the campaign, and over the last two days I followed your 2019 series “Mapping Hammers/Food/Coin/References “on The Higher Path to place benefits on the island at the 6 and 2 mile levels.

First time I have done a 2 mile map in this way, actually. I remember thinking the system was pretty good when I was just reading about it, but it was so much fun to *do* that I think you are going to make a cartographer of me yet. I finally understand what you mean when you say that this stage of your mapping (at the six or 2 mile level) feels like paint by numbers.

In the 2019 series, you gave a bonus coin to a 6 mile hex with a river from the 20 mile map. In today’s post you are giving a hammer instead. Will there be a variant situation which gets a coin instead of the hammer, just as you have now introduced the variant type six which gets double hammer instead of food and hammer? Or This represent a change in thinking away from coins for rivers?