Role playing game software and accessories
Those of you who like Hexographer may know that I’ve been working up a Dungeon mapping equivalent called “Dungeonographer” over the past two months. It was something that I had considered for months, but when I received my 8th request …
Last night when I came home there was a dead snake on the sidewalk with no visible reason why it was dead. As I walked it back to the woods to throw it away I came across a baby bird …
I’m trying to keep making progress on other projects, so today I just have a bunch of additional menu items for the random menus in the Random Inn Generator: Kito’s Spiced Potatoes Spinach Mashed Potatoes Pickled Beats Boiled Leeks Artichoke …
I had never heard of the MMORPG Ryzom before but yesterday I saw an article noting that the game’s source code and artistic assets were “open sourced.” The source code was released under the Free Software Foundation’s GNU Affero General …
Ryzom MMORPG Releases Source Code, Artistic Assets Read more »
I’ve made a pretty significant upgrade to my random inn generator project. It now offers randomly generated menus! About two weeks ago here I asked for suggestions based on the medieval themed menus I was able to find on-line. A …
Random Inn Generator (w/floorplans) Gets Random Menus Read more »
Several months back I put together a Javascript based Magic Item Shop Random Inventory Generator (for Fantasy OGL) because I hadn’t seen anything exactly like that and I thought it would be useful. As I moved on to other projects …
Magic Item Shop Random Inventory Generator Moved & Improved Read more »
Hopefully it isn’t too late to look back at 2009. At Inkwell Ideas, the specialty is to give others tools and ideas useful for RPGs. Although December was a little slow (working on the largest Inkwell Ideas project, Hexographer, as …
If you’re not familiar with Hexographer, it is a software tool that allows users to quickly create wilderness hex maps in the style of late 80’s and early 90’s TSR products. (See the sample to the side here.) It also …
More New Features for Hexographer, The Hex Map Software Read more »
This tool is perfect for creating a coat of arms for your character, NPCs, countries or other organizations in your game. (I hope it is anyway.) The software now has a much nicer and smoother default shield shape, a more …
The RPG Inspiration site has a slew of random generators for names and other things. Names are broken down by race (elf, dwarf, orc, etc.) or by sex and culture for modern names (Chinese male, Spanish female, western male, etc.). …
RPG Resources of the Day: Random Generators for Names and More Read more »