A new volume of mostly “old-school” goodness by some of your favorite blogger/writers has just been posted. Highlights include: New DCC spells. Three new races for Labyrinth Lord. Magic fountain chart. Ghost’s background story generator. Mechanical trap generator. OSR Character …

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Hexographer doesn’t currently have many compass roses or “north arrows” built-in to add to your maps.  In fact there is just one.  In the next few weeks we’ll be rectifying that with some of the following graphics.  All of these …

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Save vs. Dragon has put together this nifty pack of hex map sheets.  The blank maps can be very useful for detailing your game world.  The pack contains blank hex maps with large and small hexes where the small hexes …

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I’ve recently put together the first draft of what I’m referring to as a Spell “Accents” Chart.  It helps describe what the magical effects of a spell look like, smell like, etc.  Of course the term “Spell Descriptions” is already …

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We’ve just finished updating our Monster Stand-Ins product with 100 new creatures! It now includes well over 300 creatures.  Plus, many common creatures (orcs, kobolds, humans, elves, etc.) have multiple poses so there are easily 400 different graphics.  It is …

Monster Stand-Ins (Cardstock Minis) Updated & Free Preview Read more »

A couple of Kickstarters that I feel are worthwhile are in their funding stage.  Please give them a look: Arcane Synthesis – A “blended cross-genre anthology”  of 7 stories set in the Cosmothea universe. It comes from Bob Whitely, who …

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I recently collected several new floor tiles from the open clip art library, which is a great free (as in money and use, essentially public domain) resource.  I then made a number of variations to the graphics from the library …

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As we did last year, I want to take a step back and go over Inkwell Ideas’ 2013 and 2014 plans. But before we get into all of that: Happy new year! Overall, 2013 was financially probably flat or a …

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Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve posted a few new & free icons for Hexographer (importing icons does require the pro version though).  This post has five holiday icons! These are based on icons/art from the open clip art …

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A few things that have caught my interest over the past several days: Of course, the announced release of the next version of D&D is newsworthy. The Tome Show reviewed the last D&D Playtest rules. Dyson’s Dodecahedron released a new …

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