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 »

This is the 8th 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 …

Ancient Soldier and Mounted Knight Map Icons Read more »

This is the 7th 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 …

Infantry and Catapult Map Icons Read more »

Despite going off on tangents like the Random Dungeon Generator project or writing here, progress on Dungeonographer (dungeon mapping software) continues.  A video clip demo has been posted to the Dungeonographer site.  Keep in mind the software is still pre-alpha, …

Dungeonographer Preview: Update and a Video Clip Read more »

Despite going off on tangents like the Random Dungeon Generator project or writing here, progress on Dungeonographer (dungeon mapping software) continues.  A video clip demo has been posted to the Dungeonographer site.  Keep in mind the software is still pre-alpha, …

Dungeonographer Preview: Update and a Video Clip Read more »

This is the 6th 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 …

Shellfish and Submerged Battlefield Map Icons Read more »

This is the 5th post in a series of map icons.  Because each is just a 250×250 pixel transparent PNG you may be able to use them with many map software programs  or with general image editors.  As mentioned in …

Monster Lair and Waystation Map Icons Read more »

It has been a pretty big week here.  There was an update about Dungeonographer (dungeon mapping software) on Tuesday.  Yesterday a whole new wilderness icon set done by Kevin Chenevert/RedKobold was posted. Now there is a new tile-based random dungeon …

Debuting a New Tile-Based Random Dungeon Generator Read more »

Kevin Chenevert at www.RedKobold.com has put together a number of new wilderness map icons for Hexographer.  Importing icons is a “Pro” feature in Hexographer.  But because like all Hexographer icons they are simply transparent PNG images, you can use them …

New Set of Wilderness Map Icons Read more »