Role playing game software and accessories
A year and a half ago I reviewed several random dungeon generators. Several months back, I updated those reviews with one or two new generators which were created/found since my initial reviews, updated at least one review, and unfortunately had …
A character needs to be more than just a few scores and abilities and possessions. There are so many ways to make your character more memorable and most of them don’t take much time. Below is a list of 101 …
101 Questions to Help Create Character Backgrounds and Personalities Read more »
I’m pleased to announce the beginning of an open beta of Dungeonographer, a map-making program. The free version is on the Dungeonographer website which is linked below. I’ve posted about the project a couple of times over the past few …
Last week I posted my own hex map of a late 1800s United States of America. Yesterday, “MAK” posted a large hex map of ~1200AD Europe to the Hexographer forum. It is beautiful! The post in the Hexographer forum has …
Gold is an illustration of how obsessive we (gamers) can be, especially in a slightly different reality where there are professional RPG leagues with championships. It is a well-acted, strongly written, authentic and earnest work that deserves the many accolades …
Critical Hit for Gold! “the web series that does double damage” Read more »
To test the latest beta of Hexographer I thought it would be a good exercise to base in on a real map. I planned (and still do plan) to add in railroads using Hexographer’s new railroad icons, but that will …
Giant Hex Map of the United States, circa late 1800s Read more »
This is the 10th post in a series of map icons, with one key difference from the prior posts: these icons are already in the new beta version of Hexographer! (Free and Pro.) Previous posts with new icons couldn’t be …
Grazing Land, Grassland Hills and Poor Grassland Icons Read more »
My Random Inn Generator already did a hopefully decent job of generating floorplans and menus. But in the past couple of days, I’ve made some major upgrades to the Random Inn/Tavern Generator. I’ve added a random rumor generator and a …
Random Inn Generator Updated with Rumors and Staff/Patron Generators Read more »
When you’re creating a world for your game or novel, it helps to have a bunch of facts about our world at your fingertips. This serves two purposes: You get the dimensions of things on our world as a guide …
51 Facts About Our World To Remember When You’re Building Your World Read more »
This is the 9th post in a series of map icons. Because each icon is just a 250×250 pixel transparent PNG you should be able to use them with many map software programs or with general image editors. As mentioned …
Snowfield, Broken Lands and Underdark Broken Lands Map Icons Read more »