We’ve finished shipping all the rewards from our Hexploration Decks & Tiles crowdfunding… if you missed them they are now available in our store–don’t forget to use the coupon code at the top of the store pages. In case you haven’t …

Two New Hexploration Decks Coming! Read more »

Time to show off another new feature coming up in the new major Worldographer update!  The existing generator to place an empire or nation on the map is arbitrarily limited to have just 5 cities or towns. In the next …

Worldographer New Upcoming Feature: Revised Empire/Nation Generator Read more »

When crafting our Sidequest Decks: 5 Challenge Quests (each card is a mini-adventure, main map on one side, quest outline on the other side) we needed ideas for puzzles and riddles, as most cards contain at least one of these …

A Great Resource For Puzzles In Your RPGs Read more »

A few folks have asked for a video explaining DungeonMorphs and before you knew it, it was almost half an hour!  They started as a Kickstarter for 5 dice with Dungeon designs on them in 2011–and it was one of …

All About DungeonMorphs Read more »

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 …

A New Web-Based Village Map Generator Read more »

We bring back our Hexplorations series by revisiting our “Tombs” entry made a couple of years ago.  That post had a multi-column chart covering the size, age, & purpose of a tomb.  Here we get into some more detail. Most …

Hexplorations: Tombs Redux Read more »

Although we’ve been making a blog post every day so far this year, we have dropped off from making Worldographer videos for a while.  That’s changed with this comprehensive (54 minutes) look at the basics of Worldographer. While it doesn’t …

Worldographer Basics Video Posted Read more »

We’re continuing to shake out the bugs in the recently released settlement building functionality of Worldographer.  You can always get the latest version at http://worldographer.com/download/ The latest fixes centered on the configuration the data used to generate a new city …

Worldographer Cities & Villages Update Read more »

Just like 2017, 2018 was another year Inkwell Ideas grew by focusing on making tools that help you make your games better! And as 2017’s biggest achievement was getting Worldographer (Hexographer 2) released, 2018’s biggest achievement was getting the City/Village …

Inkwell Ideas 2018 Year In Review Read more »

This month Inkwell Ideas has a few posts previewing products that we will be debuting at GenCon this year (Exhibition Hall booth 560).  We’ve already previewed our Sidequest Decks: Horror Fantasy & 5e Creature Decks: Prehistoric Creatures and soon we’ll …

New at GenCon: Sidequest Decks: Arcane Academy Read more »