We at Inkwell Ideas have run Kickstarters since 2011, doing about three each year. And while few of our projects cross $100,000, all but 1 or 2 early project have funded.  I’m also regularly posting advice and learning on Reddit’s …

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Each month we create a set of 100+ map icons through our Patreon based on a theme our supporters select. This month’s winning theme was “Steampunk”. Support us/get them via Patreon! (On the last day of the month we make …

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Time for our first map icons preview for the month. This month’s theme is “Steampunk”. We’ve done that with an airships focus, so this time we’re doing trains and naval ships. We’re making 100+ icons split between four different subsets …

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Hopefully we at Inkwell Ideas, after creating our map making programs Worldographer, Hexographer, and our HexLands web app know something about this topic.  We may not always apply it in our generators (plus, see #3) but we know it! Without …

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Each month we create a set of 100+ map icons through our Patreon based on a theme our supporters select. This month’s winning theme was “Tiefling”–designed to be a culture that is related to demons or more often devils. Support …

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Each month we create a set of 100+ map icons through our Patreon based on a theme our supporters select. This month’s winning theme was “Tieflings”. Support us/get them via Patreon! (On the last day of the month we make …

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Each month we create a set of 100+ map icons through our Patreon based on a theme our supporters select. This month’s winning theme was “Modern Military”–designed to be reminiscent of 1970’s science fiction. Support us/get them via Patreon! (On …

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“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 …

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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 …

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