Inkwell Ideas runs a Patreon (sort of an opt-in subscription) for new map icons each month. While we make them for Worldographer, most map/image editors that work with PNG images should accept them. Each month we make four map icon …

Arctic Classic & Isometric World/Kingdom Map Icons Preview Read more »

To follow up on our post two days ago which previewed our Isometric Style World/Kingdom Mountains map icons, below are the “Classic” versions by artist/cartographer Keith Curtis. These are roughly equivalent to our Isometric samples but in the “classic” style. …

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Today we have a preview of our isometric world/kingdom Patreon map icons for the month featuring keeps, monasteries, and a few other locations for specific classes.  (We did a month of cleric temples & a month of wizard towers early …

Isometric World/Kingdom Level Keeps & Monasteries Read more »

Happy Thanksgiving!  A couple days ago we posted our monthly free set of icons.  If you didn’t pick them up, please do check them out. Here is our isometric world/kingdom icons preview of our Patreon map icons for the month: …

Post-Apocalypse Isometric Style World/Kingdom Map Icons Preview Read more »

Every month, we makes 15+ map icons for each of 4 styles through our Patreon: Classic world icons like the ones pictured here Isometric world icons Top-down building icons for cities/villages Top-down battlemat icons for dungeons, building interiors and other …

Free World/Kingdom Map Icons: Castles Read more »

As we’ve been posting lately,  we’re relaunching our Patreon (something like a monthly subscription) for map icon mini-sets for use with our software programs.  This  time we’re trying to do themed months, and our first theme is Sea cultures, primarily merfolk. This post …

Worldographer/Hexographer Classic Patreon Merfolk Icons Preview Read more »

The blog posts here have been light lately, mostly due to diving into work on Cityographer and the Creature and Encounter Cards projects.  Taxes and some family stuff (planning a trip) are also taking some time.  But I don’t want …

Wonders & Mysteries of Your World Brainstorm Ideas/Random Chart Read more »

[This post in part of the February 2011 RPG Blog Carnival hosted by Evil Machinations.  I’ve been looking forward to writing on the topic again but I’m not sure if I’ll have the time to do more.] One question often …

Worldbuilding: Where to Start? Read more »

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 …

Random Name Generator for Indian Names/Locations 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 …

Best Posts of 2009 at Inkwell Ideas Read more »