Role playing game software and accessories
Inkwell Ideas is prototyping a new (to us) technology for making a web-based map that you can then import into our Worldographer for further editing. It uses roughly the same algorithm as Worldographer’s existing city/village map generator, but making this …
We’ve upgraded our inn & tavern generator over the past week. A few days ago, we switched out the 60 or so simple black & white portraits in the Staff & Patrons Generator with full color art–and more than doubled …
70 New Portraits Added to our Inn/Tavern Generator Read more »
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 »
Just fixed a couple of issues with this cool tool: When exporting to the Hexographer format, the areas that didn’t have terrain (are supposed to be nothing) didn’t match up properly (covering up part of the terrain, and not covering …
Recently there have been a few questions about how to edit a map created with Dungeonographer’s built-in random map generator. So this article describes the reason and process. To allow rooms to be shown or hidden, rooms and even corridor …
Has your party ever found its way to a library, scholar’s office or wizard’s study and you needed some book titles fast? Here are some charts to help you out! Just roll a d6 (1-2=1, 3-4=2, 5-6=3) and a few …
Not all “Gold Pieces” are alike. They vary by nation or kingdom or perhaps locality. In fact, U.S. Continental currency was issued by banks at one point. They will also vary over time as kings and governments change. Of course, …
A few days ago I posted an update to the Cityographer Kickstarter page with a bunch of new screenshots. These show off most of the step-by-step process to create a random city. There will also be a button that lets …
I’ve got a second city street generation algorithm looking good. It creates a more randomly laid out city. (Still have lots of work to do: another algorithm, adding random rivers, a possible harbor, city walls, and a bunch more.) But …
Cityographer Sample Maps from 2nd Streetgen Algorithm Read more »
We’ve been planning our next Kickstarter project over the past couple of weeks, and now we can announce it! Here’s the description from the Kickstarter page: Random city generator and editor for role-playing games of multiple genres & systems. Runs …
Cityographer: A Random City Generator & Mapping Tool Kickstarter Begins Read more »