Role playing game software and accessories
This month is Drawtober: 31 drawing prompts related to the Shadowdark RPG, 1 a day, each day throughout the month. But I’m borrowing the daily drawing prompts for a series of (usually short) writing prompts. Today’s prompt is “Contagion”. Contagion …
Writober! Contagion! Shadowdark Post-a-Day In October Read more »
Every convention, the Inkwell Ideas team finds games to play in the evening—in addition to our regular home games. Over the past year, we’ve been paying attention to what other players do well and what we can easily change to …
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 …
How to Plan and Run a Kickstarter/Crowdfunding Project in 2026 Read more »
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 …
We’ve wrapped up most of our work for the Hexploration Decks and Tiles. (We’re just finalizing the box art and working with the printers on some layout issues.) But we want to preview more of the great stuff in these …
[Note: These rules/guidance/ideas come from our Hexploration Decks, currently out to backers to review before printing. These are most of the final 5 Reference cards from the ‘Into the Wilderness’ deck. Because they are cards of 200-225 words each, you …
Hexploration Guidance from the Hexploration Decks Read more »
When crafting our Sidequest Decks: 5 Challenge Quests (each card is a mini-adventure, main map on one side, quest outline on the other side) we needed ideas for puzzles and riddles, as most cards contain at least one of these …
Inkwell Ideas is presently running a Kickstarter campaign featuring four distinct Sidequest Decks and four accompanying NPC Portraits Decks, each tied to a unique theme. Here we’re diving into the details of what to expect and how to use a …
As you may be aware, Inkwell Ideas is presently running a Kickstarter campaign featuring four distinct Sidequest Decks and four accompanying NPC Portraits Decks, each tied to a unique theme. For this discussion, we’ll delve into the structure of the …
[Editor’s note: This post comes from Andrew Shields, the writer of most of our NPC Portraits Deck cards for our current Fantasy Sidequest & NPC Decks Kickstarter. Thanks Andrew!] Useful NPCs are a collaboration between the GM and the players. …