Planning a Kickstarter project?  Looking for ideas to create higher level rewards or stretch goals or other bonuses?  Here is a list of things to consider adding on to your core project: Bonus material: Add an extra chapter, adventure, music …

25 Kickstarter Add-On/Bonus/Stretch Reward Ideas Read more »

It seems that doing a “State of the Company” address is getting popular.  Mongoose Publishing has done it for a while, Evil Hat has also (along with quarterly updates), and I saw Adamant Entertainment and Rite Publishing did one within …

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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 …

Gen Con Wrap-Up (An Exhibitor Perspective) Read more »

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 …

Best Games to get an Overview of RPG Design Issues? Read more »

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 …

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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 …

Random Omens Charts Read more »

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 …

Random Inn Rumors Read more »

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 …

Not Every Rumor Should Relate to the Adventure; Not Every Detail Should Lead to an Encounter Read more »