Yesterday we posted a list of song titles to use in place of Old School Essentials Wizard spells.  Today we switch to Shadowdark’s Arcane spell list.  Of course there is a lot of overlap, but nearly half are new/different. As …

What if Shadowdark Spell Names were Classic Rock Song Titles? Read more »

As you’ve hopefully seen, we’re launching our next Kickstarter soon for two books of monsters based on classic rock/pop/metal/etc song titles and band names.  One book will have stats for Shadowdark and the other book will have stats for Old …

What if Classic Magic User Spell Names Were Rock Song Titles? Read more »

Inkwell Ideas runs a Patreon for new map icons every month… Each month we make 100+ total icons usually in 4 styles: isometric world/kingdom, classic world/kingdom, settlement, & battlemat based on a theme picked by our patrons. Support us/get them …

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Our markdown-based TTRPG creator just had a new release (1.1) with a slew of new updates: More SRDs: Portions of Shadowdark & Old-School Essentials were added. More coming! Import Data: Have your own markdown files?  Add them to the tool.  …

Markdown-based TTRPG Card Creator Updated – More SRDs & Print Options Read more »

TL, DR: We’ve created an app to let you check some boxes in a tree of various class abilities, ancestry traits, talents/feats, spells, and magic items… then it makes a PDF of them as cards on pages. Print, cut, and …

New Free Tool/Desktop App to Make RPG Cards from Markdown Read more »

Last month we participated in a fun TTRPG Bookmark game jam.  Through it we made a Holiday Romance Movie Generator Bookmark. The experience and result proved that the bookmark format is very useful and a lot of fun! So what …

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Creating puzzles or riddles for a tabletop RPG is a tricky balancing act. You need something challenging enough to feel rewarding, but not so difficult that the group spends an entire session stuck on a single obstacle—or so easy that …

10 Puzzle Ideas for your Tabletop Role-playing Game Read more »

Each month we create a set of 100+ map icons through our Patreon based on a theme our supporters select. This month’s winning theme was “Space Age”–designed to be reminiscent of 1970’s science fiction. Support us/get them via Patreon! (On …

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And now for something completely different… I’ve been secretly enjoying holiday romance movies.  Yes, they are formulaic, which means a set of generator tables are a great fit as a gaming aid to create your own story!  Get it free …

Tropes: Holiday Romance Solo/Co-op Story Writing Bookmark Game Read more »

And here’s our third and final map icons preview for the month. This month’s theme is “Fading Earth”–inspired by the Dying Earth & New Sun books. Normally we do 100+ icons split between four different subsets for our monthly Patreon …

Fading Earth Settlement (City/Village) Map Icons Preview Read more »