Background Inkwell Ideas was at GenCon for the first time at GenCon 2011!  The primary reason for going was to promote & sell Hexographer, Dungeonographer and the Coat of Arms Design Studio programs.  While thinking of a free give-away, I …

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Dungeonographer has reached its 1.0 milestone!  The last feature to add before marking Dungeonographer 1.0 was the “blue shift” function. If you have a classic line-art style map, when you choose File | Resize and Export as PNG Image (or …

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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. …

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I’ve finished a sample font file of DungeonMorphs.  This covers two dice’s designs, including rotating them 90, 180, and 270 degrees; flipping them; and rotating and flipping.  So each design has 8 permutations. 2 dice x 6 sided x 8 …

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While playing Munchkin a couple of weeks ago, a player got a “half-breed” card which lets him combine any two races.  Then it hit me: why does D&D (and Pathfinder, etc.) only list half-elf and half-orc as possible half-breeds? Why …

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Finally the full set of designs for the DungeonMorph Dice cavern set.  If you’d like to be updated on the status of these (when they are available for ordering outside of the earlier Kickstater process) sign up for the mailing …

DungeonMorph Dice Caverns Set Designs Read more »

Below is the complete set of designs which make up the DungeonMorph Dice “Dungeon set 2.” See the same caveats and notes in the prior DungeonMorph designs post. Kill Zones/Traps Libraries/Wizard Studies/Etc. Prisons/Cells Tombs Very Unusual (aka Unusual II)

As mentioned a few days ago, while the designs have been final for a couple of weeks, they weren’t yet in an easy to post format due to the file format, size and line thicknesses required.  However, I do need …

DungeonMorph Dice Dungeon Set 1 Designs Read more »

First, I’m throwing “(D&D Any)” to the front of this post’s title so people can easily see where it applies.  I think something like that (borrowed from several message boards) is helpful sometimes. A couple of days ago I had …

(D&D Any) Simple Hit Location Subsystem? Read more »

Another task related to the DungeonMorph Dice project is to get the process/format correct to create the battlemat PDFs based on those same designs.  Linked from this post is one design.  I’m creating the designs in my Dungeonographer software program, …

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