Spell Research: A Hexflower

As part of an RPG Discord group's writing prompt, I wrote a hexflower for spell research. It's a draft, but if there's any interest, I'll turn it into something a little more formal and post it on Itch.io or DrivethruRPG.

Here's the link to the Google Doc, for now: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m-EiGPc3etQd7-xIu7qCll10Fd9pJx-6juqWyyLLGOM/edit?usp=sharing

Here's the raw images, as a teaser:

Spell Research Hexflower

OSR Spell Research Navigation Hex

d20 Spell Research Navigation Hex

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