Role playing game software and accessories
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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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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I’ve updated my reviews of the random dungeon generators available on the internet because two of them were updated since I reviewed them. The full review (including links to the generators) is Random Dungeon Generators Reviewed. First, “The Demonweb” random …
Background The first gem of seeing was created several hundred years ago by Vizier Montlebahn of Barvonia when Barvonia’s nobility was infiltrated by a group of Rakshasas. The gem of seeing allowed the king of Barvonia to sort out the …
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Background The first efficient quivers were a gift of a nature god to her followers and the magical quivers once bore her name. However, the name of the god may no longer be spoken and now these quivers are known …
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The “Random Dungeon Generators Reviewed” article I wrote almost a weekend ago received some great feedback. I’ve updated the article with the changes. Below is a summary of the differences: Another impressive dungeon generator (the one from Wizards of the …
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 …