Role playing game software and accessories
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 »
When I was putting together my potion description charts I had a fun (for game masters anyway) idea. Many of these potions could be locked away for years or even hundreds of years… so could these potions expire over time? …
Fun With Potions: Random Charts for Expired Potions Read more »
Adding some extra descriptions to your game can help make things interesting for your players. For example, when PCs discover a potion, initially it isn’t a Potion of Healing or Potion of Invisibility. It is a potion that is a …
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 …