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  I’ve become interested, once again, in Hot Springs Island (which remains one of the greatest published products I own ). Who knows when I’ll get to run any form of D&D again, so I’ll just have some lonely fun for now.

This is part of a series, which starts right here. When I first read through Hot Springs Island, I saw the random encounter tables and I immediately wanted to change them.

This is part of a series, which starts right here. Gary Gygax made a big deal about timekeeping. Here's what he said in original Dungeon Master's Guide (1979):

Running a hex crawl can be a challenge, especially if it's your first time. I recently finished a six session campaign of Hot Springs Islands, and I learned a lot.

  Overview Hot Springs Island has big aspirations. I'm not just talking about the 270 locations, 87 NPCs and 300 new treasures. The scope of the story is big. Multi-planar, in fact.