Role playing game software and accessories
Often, when a party gets to back into a reasonable sized town, they want to look for a wizard’s shop (or similar) to see if there are any magic items they can trade or purchase. Determining the shop’s inventory can …
Announcing the Magic Item Shop Random Inventory Generator 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 …
“Terrain Wizard” feature makes the Hexographer mapping software even faster to use Read more »
A timeline or history of your world can add a great deal of depth that can have as much impact on your storylines as you like. Timeline facts will often even suggest new story ideas. “Building a history provides you …
New Worldbuilding Article Posted: Creating Timelines Read more »
This month’s RPG blog carnival topic is “The Future of Roleplaying” and it is hosted by Roleplaying Pro. Naturally, I wrote an essay on April 29th (just before this blog carnival started) titled “A Roleplaying Resurgence is on the Horizon.” …
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 …
Hexographer Hex Mapping Software Gets More Customization Options Read more »
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 …
Mirroring the Roleplaying City Map Generator Application Read more »
Rules Background Many ioun stone types have been invented over time. A long list is at d20source.com. However, most of these have only been printed in 1st and 2nd edition D&D sourcebooks. Below are several new ioun stones updated to …
Wondrous Items Histories and Variants: Ioun Stones Read more »
The list below covers a number of rule subsets that get forgotten in RPGs. These groups of rules get overlooked or game masters feel they may bog down a game or for some other reason they are not enforced. But …
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 …
Hexographer (free hex mapping program) Gets More Updates Read more »
The popularity of the “retro-clone” RPG games (those that attempt to emulate the orginal D&D game or the Basic/Expert/Master/etc. D&D boxed sets or even 1st edition AD&D) makes me think that the RPG hobby isn’t dieing, but instead it is …
A Role-Playing Game Resurgence is on the Horizon Read more »
