Role playing game software and accessories
Random dungeon generators go way back to the early days of computer games. Text-based dungeon crawls like Hack and Moria randomly created their dungeon levels using ASCII characters, but even they have since been given graphics front-ends. A dungeon generator …
The coat of arms visual designer has moved to a new website at http://www.inkwellideas.com/coat_of_arms/ The new website allows for more interaction and other features. A new version of the Coat of Arms Visual Designer has also just been released. The …
The Coat of Arms Visual Designer Gets a New Home, Updated Read more »
A day has already passed into the new year so before it gets too much further allow me to highlight a few of my favorite essays here from the past year. One of my most popular essays (and in this …
The Coat of Arms Visual Designer has gained many new features lately. If you are not familiar with the designer, it allows anyone to quickly create a free coat of arms in minutes. You may want a coat of arms …
An essay on another blog a few weeks back reminded me that I always wanted to revise critical hits to make them more interesting. When considering ways to do this, I remembered how much I loved the old Battletech critical …
A We kick off this A-to-Z list of interesting blogs and discussions with an intelligent entry about Fantasy Armour. Oh, and one caveat: There are a lot of interesting discussion out there. These are just a 26 (or so) of …
A-to-Z Semi-Monthly RPG Blog/Discussion List Issue 3 Read more »
This month’s RPG Blog Carnival topic is religion, which is something I’ve thought about before. I won’t rehash those articles. One describes designing religions for game worlds and another walks through a couple of examples. Instead, the focus here is …
A After reflecting on the prior (and inaugural) A-TO-Z index, it needs to be more than a list of press releases, which accounted for most of the content. So the focus will be more on pointing to other blogs and …
A A is for the A-TO-Z list itself. We’re beginning a new thing here: an alphabetical list of news, reflections and banter, posted regularly. There will be one blurb for each letter of the alphabet. It will mostly be RPG …
A-to-Z Issue 1: RPG News, Product Announcements and Related Banter Read more »
My Coat of Arms Visual Designer project is improving steadily. In the past few weeks I’ve added support to quarter the shield, do counterchanging of ordinaries, add and customize a name or motto on the design, save the design as …