“Rock and Roar”–our next crowdfunding project has just launched!  Check it out, get more samples, and watch the super-fun spoof video on the Kickstarter page. The project is an OSR bestiary with creature concepts based on classic rock/pop/metal & more …

Rock & Roar Lauches! Shadowdark and OSE Bestiaries Based On Classic Rock/Pop/Metal & More Read more »

Yesterday we posted a list of song titles to use in place of Old School Essentials Wizard spells.  Today we switch to Shadowdark’s Arcane spell list.  Of course there is a lot of overlap, but nearly half are new/different. As …

What if Shadowdark Spell Names were Classic Rock Song Titles? Read more »

As you’ve hopefully seen, we’re launching our next Kickstarter soon for two books of monsters based on classic rock/pop/metal/etc song titles and band names.  One book will have stats for Shadowdark and the other book will have stats for Old …

What if Classic Magic User Spell Names Were Rock Song Titles? Read more »

Just for fun, but also tying in to our upcoming classic/pop rock songs as D&D-esque monsters, we made a fantasy map of locations based on the same types of songs! This idea has been bouncing around for months, ever since …

Fantasy Map of Classic/Pop Rock Locations! Read more »

Inkwell Ideas runs a Patreon for new map icons every month… Each month we make 100+ total icons usually in 4 styles: isometric world/kingdom, classic world/kingdom, settlement, & battlemat based on a theme picked by our patrons. Support us/get them …

Ring Lord Fantasy Expanded Map Icons Preview Read more »

Our markdown-based TTRPG creator just had a new release (1.1) with a slew of new updates: More SRDs: Portions of Shadowdark & Old-School Essentials were added. More coming! Import Data: Have your own markdown files?  Add them to the tool.  …

Markdown-based TTRPG Card Creator Updated – More SRDs & Print Options Read more »

In the next few weeks we’re launching a new Kickstarter project with a gnarly concept:  An old school RPG bestiary where each creature is inspired by a rock song title or band name! To be reminded about it when it …

Rock & Roar OSR Classic Rock Monsters Bestiary Coming Soon! Read more »

TL, DR: We’ve created an app to let you check some boxes in a tree of various class abilities, ancestry traits, talents/feats, spells, and magic items… then it makes a PDF of them as cards on pages. Print, cut, and …

New Free Tool/Desktop App to Make RPG Cards from Markdown Read more »

Last month we participated in a fun TTRPG Bookmark game jam.  Through it we made a Holiday Romance Movie Generator Bookmark. The experience and result proved that the bookmark format is very useful and a lot of fun! So what …

Fantasy NPC Generator Bookmark Read more »

Creating puzzles or riddles for a tabletop RPG is a tricky balancing act. You need something challenging enough to feel rewarding, but not so difficult that the group spends an entire session stuck on a single obstacle—or so easy that …

10 Puzzle Ideas for your Tabletop Role-playing Game Read more »