Role playing game software and accessories
Several people who like Hexographer have asked for something similar that helps make dungeon/building maps. So I’ve been starting on a new project called “Dungeonographer.” A few overview points: I expect it to be ready for at least alpha testing …
Troll and Flame has had a couple of posts discussing Geomorph Cube Dungeons, which reminded me of my favorite weird dungeon geometry: a Möbius Loop. I believe this came from Dungeon magazine issue #26 (or thereabouts). At some point in …
I plan to add menus to my Random Inn/Tavern Generator. (Currently it does floorplans and inn/tavern names.) Going out to the standard equipment lists, I can find costs for Ale, Bread, Cheese, generic Meat, common and fine wine. But what …
Occasionally I learn of things through some of the RPG discussion message boards in the “general discussion” areas that I’m surprised I didn’t see in the dedicated “Publishers Ads” message board sections. Currently I check the “Ads” or “Open Promo” …
As I’m working on my maps I often find myself looking for the right font. After a while you get tired of Papyrus and Old English–the two most common fantasy-ish fonts (for lack of a better term.) Over the past …
Free Font Resource with many Gothic and Calligraphic Fonts Read more »
Late last year I started putting together a number of random charts to create names that are reminiscent of the names of cultures in the real word. The goal is to make it easy to create names that seem to …
Random Name Generator for Indian Names/Locations 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 …
Over the past few days, I’ve put together some charts for randomly creating city names that sound like English/United Kingdom cities and Chinese sounding city names. Today I added a set of charts for creating names based on Native American …
Random Location Names that Resemble Native American Language Read more »
Yesterday I put together some charts for randomly creating city names that sound like English/United Kingdom cities. Today I’ve put together another collection of charts to randomly create Chinese sounding city names. In each case I’ve also noted a very …
For one (maybe two) of my other projects, I’m putting together some charts to randomly generate city names that are reminiscent of cities of varying cultures. The first charts I’ve done are English/United Kingdom city names. I’ve split up a …
Random City Names Based on English/United Kingdom Cities Read more »