From the “in case you’re missing it elsewhere” department: Bruce Heard (editor for many TSR Mystara products, writer of Dragon Magazine’s “Voyage of the Prince Ark” series) has written a couple of short stories for his new “World of Calidar” …

Bruce Heard’s New Stories in Calidar Read more »

Continuing a series of mini-battlemats… (Taverns were up last week and inns were posted a while back.) We have 7 medieval homes as battlemats.  A medieval home was a simple building with usually just a common room for cooking, eating …

7 Medieval Home Battlemats Read more »

As I wrap up the Pathfinder Creature Decks (we’re in final edits) it is time to pick the next set of decks back up.  Labyrinth Lord/1E was next and much of the work was already done for all creatures that …

Friday Foes: Drow & Drider for LL Read more »

While searching for interesting visualizations for role-playing games, I found what turned out to be psychologist Robert Plutchik’s diagram of emotions, and thought it is a great way to help determine how an NPC’s attitude to players may shift over …

Wheel of Emotions Read more »

I made these up in the Coat of Arms Design Studio just because… feel free to use them as is or use it (free version too) to edit these into something you like.  Each small image links to the larger …

10 Free/Public Domain Coats of Arms Read more »

Matt Jackson created these very cool looking wooden rune tokens.  Basically cut a thick branch into discs, then use a woodburner to draw runes on them.  Here is his link with full details. I vaguely remember burning designs on wood …

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I recently put together a few tavern maps.  Feel free to use them for your game!  The Dungeonographer (.dgo) files allow you to edit them in Dungeonographer (including the free version), just right-click and “save-as.”  The thumbnail pictures themselves link …

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Many of you will remember the name Bruce Heard from his great work on the TSR Mystara product line, the Gazetteer series, the D&D Rules Compendium, and the “Voyage of the Princess Ark” Dragon magazine articles. After spending the past …

Bruce Heard’s “World of Calidar” Read more »

I’m happy to say I’ve been getting some of the features knocked out.  If you download the latest version, you’ll get copy/paste functionality, map item labels, and a basic export notes function. (The downloads on the linked page allow you …

Cityographer (City Generator & Map Software) Update: Copy/Paste, Map Item Labels, Export & Fantasy Map Items Read more »

I found the following articles from Raging Swan very useful and insightful.  Most come from Swan-in-chief Creighton Broadhurst. In case you missed it, below are several articles of advice to publishers and freelancers in the RPG hobby: Freelance Advice: 7 …

Raging Swan’s Publisher and Freelancer Advice Read more »