From the product’s description: Create the coins of your Kingdoms!  In the real world and in a realistic fantasy world, not all gold pieces are the same.  Some are bigger than others; some kingdoms won’t honor another kingdom’s currency; others …

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We’re well into finishing our work on the DungeonMorphs 2 Kickstarter.  A few files need to be converted and samples ordered and a few freelancers are doing their parts.  And of course, Q-Workshop is working on the dice.  (They have …

New Survey on Inkwell Ideas Next Possible Projects Read more »

About a week ago as I was falling asleep I somehow thought up a mini-game centered on how to start your next RPG campaign. Short description: A player declares a genre and each player gets six cards (two verbs and …

Adventure Hooks: Mini-game to Create your Next Adventure Beginning Read more »

Occasionally (between answering questions here and our support email and working on other projects) I check the web for mentions of Hexographer.  Below are links to cool uses, reviews, sample maps, etc., from the past month or so: Breeyark has …

Hexographer in the News, January 2015 Read more »

Mythoard is a new (January will be the second edition) monthly subscription box for RPG enthusiasts.  What is a subscription box?  It is sort of a collated, quality grab-bag centered around a specific interest–in this case role-playing games.  The subscription …

Mythoard RPG Subscription Box taking January Orders Read more »

As you probably know, we at Inkwell Ideas love random charts.  (Some prior examples: Spicing Up the Empty/Mundane Room, Random Charts for “Spell Accents”, Coin Description Generator (Random Table), Random Unusual Weather Table, Random Magic Fountain/Pool Effects Chart, Hexmap Alphabetical …

Describing the Door Read more »

We had a question about this Hexographer feature and thought a blog post describing it and screenshots would help.  A “child map” (aka submap) is a map of a smaller region created from a map of a larger region.  Perhaps …

Making Child Maps (Submaps) in Hexographer Read more »

Found this very imaginative table/list and wanted to share it!  Some favorites: 9.       The dungeons are the remnants of an ancient civilization that was much more technologically advanced than the current civilization. These ancients constructed a series of shelters and …

100 Dungeon Concepts – Mines of Khunmar Read more »

The art of the empty room is a curious line to walk.  On the one hand you want to keep things interesting… otherwise the players will meta-game that the room with no/little description has nothing worth discovering.  On the other …

Spicing Up the Empty/Mundane Room: A Random Table Read more »

Our recently created mini-websites of creatures for Dungeon World & Fate have been very well received, so we created another mini-website with 0e/1e (Labyrinth Lord) stats. The art and stats come from our recently completed Creature & Encounter Decks Kickstarter. …

0e/1e (Labyrinth Lord) Creature Stats Mini-Website Launched Read more »