Hexploration Decks & Tiles Clears 600% BackerKit Funding for Inkwell Ideas

Mar 5, 2025

An interesting looking hexcrawl accessory is currently entering its stretch run at BackerKit for Inkwell Ideas. The Hexploration Decks & Tiles project features two products designed to make creating and exploring fantasy roleplaying hexcrawls more entertaining. The project is past the 600% funding mark and you can get a printed copy of all of the Hexploration Decks and PDFs, plus get the full set of Hex Minimaps and digital versions for a pledge of $100.00 or grab them in PDF for a pledge of $35.00 through March 12. The PDFs should be available in April with the printed items to arrive in May.

About the project:

Build an unforgettable setting for your next tabletop role-playing game campaign! Four decks of cards have imaginative art, lists of evocative ideas, and simple sandbox/hex crawl guidelines. Hex Minimap Tiles help you build a map! Get & use both together or use the cards with you favorite way to map or use the tiles with other ways to create ideas.

Hexploration Decks brim with ideas to create unique locations for your next tabletop role-playing game setting! The ideas are system neutral, but medieval fantasy focused. There will be four decks, each with 54 poker-sized cards:

Settled Lands – Focuses on cities, towns, villages, castles, and other settled locations of a fantasy world.
Into the Wilderness – Features strange paths, spooky wilderness, isolated shrines, a hermit’s hut, and so on.
The Underrealms – Has ideas for locations in intriguing underground kingdoms.
Otherworldly Domains – Spins fantasy locations like a city on the Plane of Fire, magical floating islands, and improbable architecture to list just a few.

Each deck has three card types:

Location cards provide a picture on one side, and a series of options on the other. Use your own creativity to customize and expand the result to fit your setting. About 40 cards in each deck are Location cards.
Trait cards can modify your locations to make them even more distinctive and interesting. You may have a haunted graveyard… but now it also hosts a criminal element–or maybe it is a base for a warrior tradition. Each trait has multiple prompts to ensure more flavor for your sites. 10 cards in each deck have Traits.
Reference cards provide distilled guidelines and advice for how to get the most out of creating and exploring your map. About four cards are Reference cards.

We’ve also created hex minimap tiles that are just plain fun to play with! And we’ve got Dungeons & Dragons cartographer and long-time Inkwell Ideas collaborator Dyson Logos creating them!

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Jeff McAleer

Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media for fifteen years, Jeff takes on any and all sorts of games but is especially ready to tackle roleplaying games and strategy games. He's been involved with the hobby since he was just a wee grade school lad, over four decades ago.