Role playing game software and accessories
As I’m working on my maps I often find myself looking for the right font. After a while you get tired of Papyrus and Old English–the two most common fantasy-ish fonts (for lack of a better term.) Over the past …
Free Font Resource with many Gothic and Calligraphic Fonts Read more »
Hopefully it isn’t too late to look back at 2009. At Inkwell Ideas, the specialty is to give others tools and ideas useful for RPGs. Although December was a little slow (working on the largest Inkwell Ideas project, Hexographer, as …
Yesterday’s post of 101 Fantasy City/Town/Village maps made me think about real historical city maps. I was going to links to many of them (not 101 of them because doing upwards of 101 links in one or even two or …
RPG Resources of the Day: Two Sites with Hundreds of Real Historical City Maps Read more »
I’m sure there are thousands of fantasy maps posted on-line. Below are links to over 101 fantasy cities and towns. It can be useful to see such a large and varied set of examples to help you design your map. …
RPG Resources of the Day: 101 Fantasy City, Town and Village Maps Read more »
There have been several updates to my Hexographer software since I last wrote a blog entry about it: Users can change the orientation of the hexes on the map. In other words, until now the hexes have always been stacked …
Hexographer Hex Mapping Software Gets More Customization Options Read more »
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 …