TL, DR: We’ve created an app to let you check some boxes in a tree of various class abilities, ancestry traits, talents/feats, spells, and magic items… then it makes a PDF of them as cards on pages. Print, cut, and …

New Free Tool/Desktop App to Make RPG Cards from Markdown Read more »

Creating puzzles or riddles for a tabletop RPG is a tricky balancing act. You need something challenging enough to feel rewarding, but not so difficult that the group spends an entire session stuck on a single obstacle—or so easy that …

10 Puzzle Ideas for your Tabletop Role-playing Game Read more »

And now for something completely different… I’ve been secretly enjoying holiday romance movies.  Yes, they are formulaic, which means a set of generator tables are a great fit as a gaming aid to create your own story!  Get it free …

Tropes: Holiday Romance Solo/Co-op Story Writing Bookmark Game Read more »

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 …

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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 »