Welcome to Hexcrawls - Map-based Exploration in Roleplaying Games!
Hexcrawling is a method of exploring a map in roleplaying games, often associated with the OSR style of games mostly used in the fantasy genre. It often involves procedures, random tables, and dice to determine what happens during travel from one location to another.
https://bearded-devil.com/2019/04/09/how-i-run-a-citycrawl-campaign/
I never understood the warning against town adventures. Except that the characters are likely to get apprehended by the constaburlary. That can be fun too!
a good video on it https://www.youtube.com/live/iKcvykeSoWk?feature=share
You should write a full blog on it
I wonder about incorporating AI to just generate the town and role play the NPC's
Indeed, that sounds like something worth sharing. Although, writing a blog post would be a bit weird for me, as I don't have a blog and it would be a single article. I think I'm going to do what I do best : publish an open-source project based on that idea. That way, it will serve as an example about how to implement this technique, and those who can't do it themselves at least will have a generalist version that may work for them. I can't publish my Traveller app as is because it's full of copyrighted content, but I'll extract something from it that will allow users to fill their own tables for generated content.