Role playing game software and accessories
Wilderness/Area/World Map software Hexographer has been updated with several new terrain types based on user requests. The new terrain choices are: dead forest wetlands, evergreen wetlands, forest wetlands, jungle wetlands, mixed (coniferous & deciduous) forest, heavy mixed forest, mixed forest …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …