Our 5th Hexploration helps you brainstorm a shrine: Why is it there? Is it a small display along the roadside or part of a large temple? Why do people visit?  What secret does it have? To use this chart simply …

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We had a great set of entries for our third geomorph map contest, which had a “shrine” requirement.  The winner gets a free set of Inkwell Ideas’ DungeonMorph Dice.  Our next contest’s special ingredient is “tombs/a tomb.”  So your design …

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Check in tomorrow for our winner & runners-up.  Today we’ve got the last set of entries for the shrine edition of our contest: Vance Atkins of Leicester’s Ramble sent these: “A shine to some nameless (or at least difficult-to-pronounce) spider …

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So far, we’ve only had two people enter the latest #GeomorphMapContest and we’re now half-way to the deadline. (Late on Monday May 18th–or early Tuesday depending on your location.)  So please spread the word and send in your entries when …

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The lava ingredient for this contest’s maps was a little difficult, but we still had a bunch of great designs.  This time we have two runner-s up and our winner. Our first runner-up is Peter Schweighofer of Griffon Publishing Studio.  …

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This month’s RPG Blog Carnival topic is religion, which is something I’ve thought about before. I won’t rehash those articles.  One describes designing religions for game worlds and another walks through a couple of examples.  Instead, the focus here is …

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