Free GM Resource: HexLands Web App

I haven't done a Free GM Resource in a while, and I almost missed this one (despite several emails on the subject) where Joe Wetzel of Inkwell Ideas put up a free hexmap creator/editor for people to use, presumably to promote his recently finished Kickstarter for his hexmaps (printed and digital).

Now I've been wanting to get some physical hexmap resources for myself and I have a very specific idea in mind for doing so, which means that the Kickstarter was on my radar and completely of no use to me so why bother checking it out? 

I'm taking a moment to weed through my backlog of emails (filtering by the word "unsubscribe" is a periodic requirement for me) and I have one from Joe that I hadn't noticed. It wasn't to me, but to his previous Kickstarter backers and I saw "But the good news is now we've updated the free HexLands web app", so now I have to check it out, but definitely will not be using it, nor checking out the Kickstarter....

...oh wait, this is kind of cool. I like the addition of overlays.

It couldn't hurt to check out the Kickstarter....oh wait, it ended last Thursday....but you can still make a late pledge, and I'll be damned, the overlays are part of the project.

Well it still isn't compatible with what I have in mind, but for s***s & giggles let's see what he's wanting for the various reward levels. Of course he has it sliced and diced every which way.....and he has just the hex tiles and .PNGs only for a price I cannot turn down. This will save me HOURS of work for what I'm wanting to do.....

.....got me again Joe. Good on ya!

For everybody else, check out not only the HexLands web app, but all the other freebie generators (this new freebie is listed with the other yet) he has at InkWell Ideas. A bit more of a twofer for you.

.....and again, here is the better-late-than-never Kickstarter.