Our sidequest series titled “Encampment Encounters” resumes again!  These encounters are things that could happen when the party decides to take a rest. Tags: Dinner, Food, Critters, Setup: Some critters got into a PC’s pack while they were crossing a …

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Continuing with our new series of Travel Encounters blog posts… Here is our second installment: Remote Religious Tower Clergy, Rest, Secrets, Rookery A isolated sect of priests live and worship in a remote tower. They recently had a prisoner escape. …

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Now that we’ve got a few dungeon oddities finished, we’ll premiere the first of another series of posts we plan for this year.  These “Travel Encounters” are designed to be short encounters that take place on a journey.  You should …

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Our 4th in a series of weird things to find in a dungeon/cavern/ruins. Each is an unusual event or has strange effects on any encounter there. Warrior-King Spirit Undead, Gift, Challenge, Sidequest The translucent figure of a warrior sits in …

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Together with writer Andrew Shields and as always cartographer Keith Curtis and Inkwell Ideas chief Joe Wetzel, we’ve just released a new system neutral Space Fantasy mini-setting/hex crawl! Get it by either supporting our Patreon (and then viewing this post) …

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Here is the third in our series of weird things to find in a dungeon/cavern/ruins. Each can have strange effects on any encounter there. Arcane Portal Energy, Prison, Teleport Runes and magical energy cover a doorway. Possible effects: (Roll a …

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Continuing with our New Year’s Resolution to post a new resource every day for a year… since our first post was kicking off a new series it makes sense to do a couple more of this set before we start …

Dungeon Oddities: *NOT* A Vampire’s Coffin Read more »

New Year’s Resolution: Post a new resource every day for a year.  That’s the goal anyway, we’ll see how close we get.  Maybe it will be every weekday.  Or maybe we’ll do some reposts.  But here goes! We’re beginning with …

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It is near the end of another month, and nearly time for Inkwell Ideas to release our latest map icon pack: Pirates & Ports. Each month through our Patreon we release 100+ map icons (which you may use in maps …

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Looking for a slew of real world pulp adventure story seeds or quest objects? We’ve collected 100 possibilities for your consideration. Most focus on the classic pulp era (1900s to the 1950s) but many originated further back before they went …

100 Archeological, Spiritual, & Historical Mysteries & Artifacts Read more »