As we announced a few days ago, Inkwell Ideas is starting up a Patreon campaign to fund additional icons and continued development for all of our software.  To show you what you’ll get, we will be releasing a few new …

Inkwell Ideas Patreon Campaign: Dungeonographer Sample Icons Read more »

A lot of changes and improvements are coming to Inkwell Ideas!  More details will be coming soon.  Today we’re announcing our Patreon campaign. This will help us to continue to make improvements to our software programs (Hexographer, Dungeonographer, Cityographer and …

Inkwell Ideas’ Patreon Campaign Begins! We’re Making Coat of Arms Symbols, Map Icons Read more »

Yesterday Newbie DM posted a review of Inkwell Ideas’ Encounter Decks 3. Here are a couple of snippets: “…they cram a lot into a regular poker sized card, perhaps too much, but in essence you are getting a solid framework …

Newbie DM Gives Our “Encounter Decks” a Great Review Read more »

If you’ve been following RPG small publishers and individual contributors, you have probably seen Patreon mentioned.  If you haven’t, here is the short description: Patreon is similar to Kickstarter, but projects are smaller or incremental and backers don’t pay unless …

Using Patreon for New Art/Icon Sets Survey Read more »

(Get samples on the linked pages below!) Inkwell Ideas is pleased to announce the release of its “NPC Portraits Deck: Fantasy” cards.  These were soft-launched a couple of weeks ago, but now we’re sure they are correct and we are …

“NPC Portraits Deck: Fantasy” Released & “Encounter Decks” Re-released Read more »

Judging our first #GeomorphMapContest was hard! My thanks to Matt Jackson who I solicited for advice on the entries.  We’ve got 5 runner-ups and 1 winner.  First the runner-ups, in no particular order: And our winner is: We almost didn’t …

Initial Geomorph Contest Winners! Read more »

There is just a little over a day left for pledging to our RPG Card Decks Kickstarter! The updates page has many sample cards. Two years ago we created several RPG Card Decks.  This project will expand the lineup with …

A Little Over A Day Left for the RPG Card Decks Kickstarter Read more »

Our “Monster Stand-Ins” Paper Minis PDF is the deal of the day on RPGNow/DriveThruRPG NOW through tomorrow (Sunday) around 10am US central time. You’ll be able to pick it up for 60% off!  It has art for over 350 monsters …

Now Monster Stand-Ins (Paper Minis) are the DriveThruRPG/RPGNow Deal of the Day Read more »

Several low-level area of effect spells can be made into great magical candles in much the same way that many low level spells that affect one person make good potions.  However, the ranges, areas of effect and durations need some …

Magic Candles for Low Level, Non-Instant Area Effect Spells Read more »

Below are thumbnails (click for larger versions) of our first eight official entries in our initial  geomorph design contest!  See the full rules in this post. A couple of quick updates first: You may enter up to three designs in …

Early Geomorph Design Contest Entries; Rules Update Read more »