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 …

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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.).  …

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I love adding a 3-D element to my games.  A few years back we often used Dwarven Forge’s “polystone” pieces for 3-D dungeons.  I’ve also bought some of Fat Dragon Games’ foldup dungeon models.  But Wizards of the Coast published …

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If you haven’t seen the Hexographer software before, it lets you easily create hex maps. The icons scale nicely; a random terrain generator is included as well as a terrain wizard that lets you just sketch a little bit of …

Hexographer’s Random Terrain Generator Revised Read more »

If you haven’t seen or tried the Hexographer hex-map creation/editing software, it is a web-based program that lets you quickly and easily make maps in the style of the D&D known world maps from the 1980’s and early 1990’s. A …

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There have been several updates to my Hexographer software since I last wrote a blog entry about it: Users can change the orientation of the hexes on the map.  In other words, until now the hexes have always been stacked …

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A few months back I saw the Roleplaying City Map Generator mentioned on a forum, but the website hosting the application seemed to have disappeared.  Fortunately someone found a copy of the website (and the application) using the internet wayback …

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The Hexographer software (a free web-based hex mapping program) has received a couple of updates: The user can change the color of the cosmic icons (planets, asteroids, etc.) as they are placed. (So for example not all the planets have …

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