Inkwell Ideas is pleased to announce the release of Cityographer 1.0!  The project has been in open beta for about a year. With the addition of one final feature and several fixes it has reached the 1.0 milestone. You can …

Cityographer 1.0 Released (City Map & Details Generator & Editor) Read more »

These great ideas come from amishbreakfast on reddit, with my comments added: If you roll a die and it goes off the table, it’s a natural zero. This encourages players to roll on the table because dropping dice breaks up …

4 House Rules for Every RPG Read more »

This post shows a map for a 2-level guildhouse.  The main floor features a large meeting room, a bar operated by the guild, a storage room, and a couple of smaller meeting rooms. The upper floor has offices and two …

Monday Maps: Guildhouse Read more »

If you like Hexographer’s easy to use interface, but prefer maps in the 1E World of Greyhawk boxed set style, we’ve just released a new icon set that fills this niche perfectly. This page has more details including samples, a …

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We here at Inkwell Ideas have been doing a lot with Labyrinth Lord lately.  But it was cool to see someone else did the work of creating the Labyrinth Lord Known World map (as well as another Labyrinth Lord product’s …

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Just released an update to Cityographer to make a few key improvements/fixes. (There are free and pro versions, look for the “Downloads” page.)  Here is the list of changes: You can now set a city center that doesn’t match where …

Cityographer Updated Read more »

Thanks to artist/cartographer Robert Altbauer, we have just released a new set of battlemat icons that addresses the needs of Science Fiction settings.  These were made for the map software Dungeonographer, but they are any tool that imports transparent PNGs …

Science Fiction Battlemat Icons Released Read more »

M Harold Page put together a detailed review of Hexographer for Black Gate magazine.  Here is a snippet: Assuming that the resulting maps look good enough to be inspiring, the basic requirement of a cartographical creativity aid is that it …

Hexographer Reviewed by BlackGate Magazine Read more »

Antony Brotherton, David Winterbottom, Matt Jackson, Keith Curtis, Tim Ballew, Shane Knysh, Brutus Motor, AJ Stone and I collaborated on two decks of Random Encounter Generation cards last year. Antony posted a retrospective/review of the finished cards and raves about …

Random Encounter Generator Decks in Use! Read more »

Just yesterday we posted a new Cityographer add-on (but good for any mapping tool or image editor that accepts PNG images) featuring 150 new fantasy buildings plus a bunch of other graphics. Whether you’re creating an elegant city of elves, …

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