Late last year I started putting together a number of random charts to create names that are reminiscent of the names of cultures in the real word. The goal is to make it easy to create names that seem to …

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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 …

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Over the past few days, I’ve put together some charts for randomly creating city names that sound like English/United Kingdom cities and Chinese sounding city names.  Today I added a set of charts for creating names based on Native American …

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Yesterday I put together some charts for randomly creating city names that sound like English/United Kingdom cities.  Today I’ve put together another collection of charts to randomly create Chinese sounding city names.  In each case I’ve also noted a very …

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For one (maybe two) of my other projects, I’m putting together some charts to randomly generate city names that are reminiscent of cities of varying cultures.  The first charts I’ve done are English/United Kingdom city names.  I’ve split up a …

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When I was putting together my potion description charts I had a fun (for game masters anyway) idea. Many of these potions could be locked away for years or even hundreds of years… so could these potions expire over time? …

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Adding some extra descriptions to your game can help make things interesting for your players.  For example, when PCs discover a potion, initially it isn’t a Potion of Healing or Potion of Invisibility.  It is a potion that is a …

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The RPG Inspiration site has a slew of random generators for names and other things.  Names are broken down by race (elf, dwarf, orc, etc.) or by sex and culture for modern names (Chinese male, Spanish female, western male, etc.).  …

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If you haven’t seen the Hexographer software before, it lets you easily create hex maps. The icons scale nicely; a random terrain generator is included as well as a terrain wizard that lets you just sketch a little bit of …

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I’ve updated my reviews of the random dungeon generators available on the internet because two of them were updated since I reviewed them. The full review (including links to the generators) is Random Dungeon Generators Reviewed. First, “The Demonweb” random …

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