Top 5 2008 Essays @Inkwell Ideas
A day has already passed into the new year so before it gets too much further allow me to highlight a few of my favorite essays here from the past year. One of my most popular essays (and in this …
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Coat of Arms Visual Designer Updated Again
The Coat of Arms Visual Designer has gained many new features lately. If you are not familiar with the designer, it allows anyone to quickly create a free coat of arms in minutes. You may want a coat of arms …
Making Critical Hits More Interesting
An essay on another blog a few weeks back reminded me that I always wanted to revise critical hits to make them more interesting. When considering ways to do this, I remembered how much I loved the old Battletech critical …
A-to-Z Semi-Monthly RPG Blog/Discussion List Issue 3
A We kick off this A-to-Z list of interesting blogs and discussions with an intelligent entry about Fantasy Armour. Oh, and one caveat: There are a lot of interesting discussion out there. These are just a 26 (or so) of …
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Flavoring a Game World with Religion
This month’s RPG Blog Carnival topic is religion, which is something I’ve thought about before. I won’t rehash those articles. One describes designing religions for game worlds and another walks through a couple of examples. Instead, the focus here is …
A-to-Z Guide to RPG Blogs, Forums and More
A After reflecting on the prior (and inaugural) A-TO-Z index, it needs to be more than a list of press releases, which accounted for most of the content. So the focus will be more on pointing to other blogs and …
A-to-Z Issue 1: RPG News, Product Announcements and Related Banter
A A is for the A-TO-Z list itself. We’re beginning a new thing here: an alphabetical list of news, reflections and banter, posted regularly. There will be one blurb for each letter of the alphabet. It will mostly be RPG …
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Coat of Arms Visual Designer Update
My Coat of Arms Visual Designer project is improving steadily. In the past few weeks I’ve added support to quarter the shield, do counterchanging of ordinaries, add and customize a name or motto on the design, save the design as …
How Much Borrowing Is Too Much?
Recently in a game session, our characters encountered a room with a magical energy pattern drawn on the floor. As anyone who is familiar with Roger Zelazny’s Amber books knows, sure enough once a character stepped on the pattern he …
A New PC Joining the Party Should Be What Level?
A new PC joining the party is a fairly common occurrence. Maybe a new player is joining the group or perhaps a character has died and that character’s player wants a new character. Often, there is a question of what …
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