Our 10 New Year’s Freebies to kick off 2024 continues with freebie #2: Our Infinite Gems & Jewelry PDF of random tables for making more interesting loot! Get it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/95727465 And our prior deal is still active–see the link …

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Our Patreon map icon theme for November is “Desert”. Here we’re previewing the Classic & Isometric World/Kingdom icons that will be released at the end of the month. For each monthly theme we make 100+ total icons in 4 styles: …

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We’re continuing our monthly map icons previews with our ‘Gritty Future’ Classic & Isometric World/Kingdom icons. Each month we make 100+ total icons in 4 styles: isometric world/kingdom, classic world/kingdom, settlement, & battlemat based on a theme picked by our …

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Inkwell Ideas is prototyping a new (to us) technology for making a web-based map that you can then import into our Worldographer for further editing. It uses roughly the same algorithm as Worldographer’s existing city/village map generator, but making this …

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If you’re still on the fence about backing our Kickstarter or you’ve been waiting to get around to it, here’s your “round tuit”: Yesterday we did an update with a bunch of NPC Portrait thumbnails, so today I wanted to …

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As you likely know, each month Inkwell Ideas makes 100+ total icons in 4 styles: isometric world/kingdom, classic world/kingdom, settlement, & battlemat based on a theme picked by our patrons. Support us/get them via Patreon! (On the last day of …

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Yesterday we shared a video tutorial on utilizing Sidequest Decks for a Hex Crawl specifically focusing on our Desert Outpost Sidequest Deck, a part of our newly launched Fantasy & NPC Sidequest Decks Kickstarter campaign. For those who prefer written …

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[Editor’s note: This post comes from Andrew Shields, the writer of most of our NPC Portraits Deck cards for our current Fantasy Sidequest & NPC Decks Kickstarter.  Thanks Andrew!] Useful NPCs are a collaboration between the GM and the players. …

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Inkwell Ideas’s new Kickstarter to make four new Sidequest Decks and four new NPC Portraits Decks has launched! The Kickstarter intends to make one new Sidequest Deck and one new NPC Portraits Deck for each of four themes: Tavern Quests/Staff …

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Below is another village sample using our new map icons artist/cartographer Keith Curtis has worked up for us this month. We’re making a new set of 100+ village building icons spanning several different village types (shingled buildings, thatch buildings, elf …

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