Help Me Design My GenCon Swag
First of all, Inkwell Ideas will have a booth at GenCon in the Entrepreneur’s Avenue area! As you’d expect, we’ll have Hexographer, Dungeonographer and the Coat of Arms Design Studio for sale. And we’ll be running demos of each. We also are *hoping* the DungeonMorph Dice are ready by then, but that’s a little touch-and-go. The DungeonMorph Cards will also likely be ready.
On to my main point: I love convention swag, especially if it is unique and related to the company and its products. As such, I’ve decided to do free 2-sided laminated 11″x17″ maps. (Quantities will of course be limited, but I expect to make at least several hundred.)
One side will have a generic inn battlemat (1″ = 5′ square) created in Dungeonographer. What GM doesn’t need an inn floorplan on a spur-of-the-moment? Now you’ll be set. And you’ll know where to go to quickly create other inn maps. (Or dungeons, caves, etc.)
But I’m a little stuck for what kind of generic Hexographer map to put on the other side. It is a bit harder to do a generic area/overland map. My leading idea is to create an island, perhaps one inspired by the classic Isle of Dread. An island should be easy to drop in a campaign, and one does occasionally need them. Maybe a peninsula would be better because it could be half an island or a peninsula… As you can see, I’m unsure about this map’s subject. If you have a better idea or can refine this idea please post a comment!
Perhaps go with an island, but one with a layout that could easily have one side ‘cut’ off to make it a peninsula.
So, perhaps have one narrow end that rises up to a cliff with a manor on it, or it rises up to the hinterlands with a road/path that goes past a manor house and continues on inland.
I love the island idea – easy to drop into an existing campaign, and what GM doesn’t want an island to set up lost temples, forgotten dungeons, and anything else that doesn’t fit into his mainland setting?
Sorry I missed the swag. The cards are great and already got the link for the download on the fonts. Looking forward to the dice!
WOW, how cool is that, wish I had seen your booth, must have passed it. I love your programs and your blog here, will be checking it out a lot I have a feeling, great stuff. Yea GC is the best, I dream of one of my games making it print, but wonder how the con would be as a seller and not a gamer?