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About two weeks ago I asked the people on my mailing list for some feedback in a short, two-question survey. (It is also linked from the Hexographer and Dungeonographer websites.) I felt the first question’s results may be useful for …
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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 …
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 …
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Back in college where I was a computer science major there was a brutal class called “Survey of programming languages” (or something like that–it was 10 years ago or so) where you had to learn 8 computer languages (and actually …
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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 …