Role playing game software and accessories
While searching for interesting visualizations for role-playing games, I found what turned out to be psychologist Robert Plutchik’s diagram of emotions, and thought it is a great way to help determine how an NPC’s attitude to players may shift over …
This is my second post listing a bunch of random inn rumors. These will be added to the Random Inn Generator shortly. (Once I build up enough so the same few don’t pop up over and over.) When they are …
Last night when I came home there was a dead snake on the sidewalk with no visible reason why it was dead. As I walked it back to the woods to throw it away I came across a baby bird …
One of the (many) remaining tasks for my Random Inn Generator project is to add a randomly chosen set of (normal) rumors. I’ve seen a couple of similar lists lately, but I need to create some that aren’t copyrighted by …
A few days ago I saw a great article on the Kobold Quarterly website that listed 50 rumors that have nothing to do with whatever adventure the PCs are pursuing. Roleplaying Tips had a similar article a while back. When …
Several people who like Hexographer have asked for something similar that helps make dungeon/building maps. So I’ve been starting on a new project called “Dungeonographer.” A few overview points: I expect it to be ready for at least alpha testing …
Troll and Flame has had a couple of posts discussing Geomorph Cube Dungeons, which reminded me of my favorite weird dungeon geometry: a Möbius Loop. I believe this came from Dungeon magazine issue #26 (or thereabouts). At some point in …
Hopefully it isn’t too late to look back at 2009. At Inkwell Ideas, the specialty is to give others tools and ideas useful for RPGs. Although December was a little slow (working on the largest Inkwell Ideas project, Hexographer, as …
When I was putting together my potion description charts I had a fun (for game masters anyway) idea. Many of these potions could be locked away for years or even hundreds of years… so could these potions expire over time? …
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Adding some extra descriptions to your game can help make things interesting for your players. For example, when PCs discover a potion, initially it isn’t a Potion of Healing or Potion of Invisibility. It is a potion that is a …