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Coat of Arms Design Studio Updated

The Coat of Arms Design Studio was recently updated with two new major Pro version features. If you’re not familiar with the program, it is another tool from Inkwell Ideas that allows you to create a coat of arms in an easy, visual process.  It has hundreds of built-in graphics for creatures, symbols and ordinaries.  [...]

April 5, 2012 ·  · No Comments
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Mantling, Helms, and Supporters Added to the Coat of Arms Design Studio

My Coat of Arms Design Studio software (which has a free version, naturally) has gained about 50 new charges. Charges are creatures or symbols placed on the shield in a coat of arms.  The paid/pro version has also been given a bunch of extra functionality which allows you to add supporters (the creatures that hold [...]

February 4, 2011 ·  · One Comment
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136 Public Domain Region or City Map Icons

While searching for new and different styles of map icons, I came across a bunch at the open clip art web site. One set that really stood out (especially because there were many in the same style) were created by “nicubunu.” He hosts a complete set in that style including colored and black and white [...]

November 16, 2010 ·  · One Comment
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Pathfinder: Break My Class Building/Multiclassing Rules

I’m looking for help in finding how/where this breaks and I think the best way to do that is to get more eyes on it. The purpose of this is to give a different way to multi-class  which overcomes the issue of multiclassed characters not being as strong (depthwise) as single class characters.  For example [...]

October 20, 2010 ·  · One Comment
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Unusual Medieval Fantasy Tavern Menu Items?

I plan to add menus to my Random Inn/Tavern Generator. (Currently it does floorplans and inn/tavern names.) Going out to the standard equipment lists, I can find costs for Ale, Bread, Cheese, generic Meat, common and fine wine. But what are some more unusual items you might want to see on a Fantasy themed tavern [...]

April 21, 2010 ·  · 8 Comments
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Where Do You Get Your Gaming News?

Occasionally I learn of things through some of the RPG discussion message boards in the “general discussion” areas that I’m surprised I didn’t see in the dedicated “Publishers Ads” message board sections. Currently I check the “Ads” or “Open Promo” or “Publishers and Press Releases” sections of EnWorld, RPG.net, and The RPG Site. Sometimes I [...]

April 20, 2010 ·  · 4 Comments
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Free Font Resource with many Gothic and Calligraphic Fonts

As I’m working on my maps I often find myself looking for the right font.  After a while you get tired of Papyrus and Old English–the two most common fantasy-ish fonts (for lack of a better term.)  Over the past couple of weeks I focused on finding more that have a fantasy look to them.  [...]

February 25, 2010 ·  · 5 Comments
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By Any Other Name…

Just for fun I thought I would come up with names for new/alternative role-playing games in the style of the “Dungeons and Dragons” name.  I think names that also use alliteration and are two words joined by “and” just sound like RPG games.  Because of games like “Tunnels and Trolls,” “Castles and Crusades” and “Swords [...]

August 22, 2009 ·  · 2 Comments
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RPG Blog Readership Survey Launches

You can now take the RPG Blog Readership Survey by following this link: http://www.kwiksurveys.com/online-survey.php?surveyID=NLJOJ_6cc605e2 The survey is designed to be useful for all blog writers, not just for this blog or the blog writers/owners who helped create questions.  I’ll be posting updates on the results regularly so everyone can benefit (other blog writers as well [...]

August 10, 2009 ·  · No Comments
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RPG Resources of the Day: Two Sites with Hundreds of Real Historical City Maps

Yesterday’s post of 101 Fantasy City/Town/Village maps made me think about real historical city maps.  I was going to links to many of them (not 101 of them because doing upwards of 101 links in one or even two or three sittings is tedious), but I ended up finding two exceptional websites that include historical [...]

July 9, 2009 ·  · 3 Comments
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