HexploreIt II - The Forests of Adrimon - Full Reference guide

Devlog

• Ancient Crystals
  September 10, 2024 by Kosterix#houserule

  Gray area, I'd houserule that you have the ancient crystal harvesting available from card 4 onward. The game is quite experimental, so it's not that important whatever someone decides. Ancient Crystal... Continue reading
• Refined Attempt to Harvest
  September 08, 2024 by Kosterix

  (the placard Elowen's grove and rb.29 were at odds with each other and retries after failed attempts to harvest were not explained well. I reworded this as follows) Attempt to Harvest an Essence Vine... Continue reading
• LOWERED PRICE
  September 05, 2024 by Kosterix#discount

  Temporarily set price to $1... Continue reading
• Forests of Adrimon completed
  August 23, 2024 by Kosterix#Forests of Adrimon, #Hexplore It, #Roguelite, #Tutorial, #Reference Guide

  Fixed a few typos, documents are complete. Video playthrough is on youtube... Continue reading
• Keepers
  August 21, 2024 by Kosterix#Keepers

  Spent a few hours on Keepers. There are 6 Keeper destination cards (that start on hexes on A-E and on K). Keepers A-D are actually the Keepers from the expansion text. The issue was however what can y... Continue reading
• That time when you are convinced you're 90% done...
  August 19, 2024 by Kosterix#Polishing

  ... and realize there's the other 90% ahead of you. I'm restructuring / polishing the save sheet instructions to properly account for all player counts. Will soon post updates. The save sheet works fo... Continue reading
• Beta Release
  August 15, 2024 by Kosterix#Released Roguelite Campaign Tutorial materials

  Version 1.4.7 is live! Contains sheet for exp. items, blessings, and fey wylds; sheet for map configurations; sheet for annotating hex tiles with thematic names; complete campaign save sheet; epub ver... Continue reading
• Current state of the project
  August 14, 2024 by Kosterix#version 1.4.4

  Important: if you use the mozilla epub extension, set the reading style to full page, there's something off in the app and it will not render the pages properly in multi-page (the default). Click in t... Continue reading

  
• Descendants Perk v2.
  August 11, 2024 by Kosterix#Adrimon, #Reference, #Finished, #Beta

  v1.4.2 Status: the Reference guide is finished. That was quite a job, over four months of extremely hard cross-referencing of social media posts, hunting future rules and hours of back and forth discu... Continue reading

  
• New adaptive difficulty and more Missions
  August 06, 2024 by Kosterix

  After a week of hard thinking I made up a new formula for adaptive difficulty. I posted it on the discord, maybe if they figure it out it will be adopted. No need to wait for that though, it's here. I... Continue reading

  
• 2024-7-29
  July 30, 2024 by Kosterix#Adrimon, #Scam, #Hexplore It

  The best advice I can give is to avoid all Hexplore It products altogether. They might be playable one day, but not before 2033, and not after the Herculean effort of backporting and for once properly... Continue reading
• update 2024-7-30
  July 30, 2024 by Kosterix

  added mechanics: Descendants: chance to generate a dual-class hero for true solo; Imbuing: Elowen will purify a DR you hand over to imbue any relic you wield; published blessings / extra elowen stock... Continue reading

  
• Base game gameplay Not in Base game
  July 22, 2024 by Kosterix#Forests, #Adrimon, #Hexplore It

  My research led me to discover various game mechanisms not mentioned in the rulebook, but present in the Expansion. Therefore I extracted these pages for you benefit, you may print them out (or not, t... Continue reading
• project status 2024-7-18
  July 18, 2024 by Kosterix#roguelite, #campaign, #tutorial

  Still merging two versions into one. Added Blessed mechanics, and contemplating about whether or not to add the Fey Wyldlands. Setup instructions are more tight now. to showcase I uploaded a new sampl... Continue reading
• Semi Final Thoughts on the product
  June 29, 2024 by Kosterix

  Semi Final thoughts on the product When I bought the game The Forests of Adrimon in 2019 directly from the company, the reviews on bgg were very positive. However it proved impossible for me to set it... Continue reading
• Make Sentinels Great Again
  June 23, 2024 by Kosterix#Adrimon, #Sentinel, #achievements, #adventure

  Background and motivation: According to lore, the Mindwiped build Sentinels in their cities. When they spawn, they should start from a city that had time to build such a construct. Sentinels as physic... Continue reading
• About Sentinels...
  June 18, 2024 by Kosterix#Sentinels

  So, they were thrown in by creator to spice things up. The idea was they would hinder heroes in forging relics. The rb description tells how players should feel (rb.36): "Magical constructs built by t... Continue reading
• Thematic Circumstance table for base FoA
  June 17, 2024 by Kosterix#tiered event table, #base game

  3.4 Circumstance table (context-sensitive) It’s assumed you have the tables laid out on the Circumstance bar, numbered from 1 to 8. When you must draw a Circumstance card: If you haven’t already d... Continue reading
• Estimate (based on 2024-6-15)
  June 15, 2024 by Kosterix

  It seems I was a little optimistic. Not nearly done by a long shot - the reference guide takes much more time. Mostly because gathering the info from the scattered information in the rb/sb is time con... Continue reading
• Devlog
  June 13, 2024 by Kosterix#roguelike, #roguelite, #scoring, #replayable, #progressing

  not meant for printing , it won't help you in playing the game. For versioning and background info. 2022 - 0.0 Bought HexploreIt: The Forests of Adrimon (FoA) for €115 (inc shipping) from the Mariuc... Continue reading

  
• update
  June 09, 2024 by Kosterix#Circumstance Events

  To have more meaningful events (what HI calls circumstances) There is an optional table in the base game (sb). The rudimentary, poorly thought through table (unmarked expansion only entries thanks guy... Continue reading
• Dev log
  June 06, 2024 by Kosterix#FoA, #true solo, #solo, #adventure, #game, #unlocks, #achievements, #tutorial

  Dev log 2022 - v0.0 Bought HexploreIt: The Forests of Adrimon (FoA) for €115 (inc shipping) from the Mariucci website after the game got good reviews. 2023 - v0.1 Tried several times to set it up, b... Continue reading