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New map-making software deal: Worldographer launches new bundle

July 3, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Worldographer is compatible not just with Windows but Mac OSX and Linux. The bundle expires on the 24th.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: bundle of holding, bundles, cartography, Inkwell Ideas, maps

Poker card creatures: Inkwell tackles Kobold Press’s Beasts with Deck of Beasts III

December 8, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Reprinting all of our prior decks, but in one large deck for each book’s creatures. The new print run’s cards will have the terrain icons & CR color codes implemented as well.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cards, Inkwell Ideas, kickstarters, tome of beasts

Ideas that help DMs: DungeonMorphs IV persuade hundreds

May 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Inkwell Ideas is a creative studio with clever ideas to make your life idea as a gamer, GM or DM easier. That’s not to say good ideas can’t be revisited, expanded on or tweaked, and that’s what’s happening with the fourth DungeonMorphs Kickstarter.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battle mats, cartography, dice, Inkwell Ideas, kickstarters

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #130

December 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

Drama again this week with attack lawyers dispatched against Wizards of the Coast, hassles over Kickstarters at Dragonmeet and confusion and concern over the direction Kickstarter itself might be taking.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, Achtung! Cthulhu, Ad Infinitum Adventures, bandit camp, Brittannia Game Designs, broken shield, cairn, carbon 2185, Chaosium, Chivalry & Sorcery, coyote & crow, Dishonored, dragon turtle games, Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron, fairy trails, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, forged in the dark, Gunnar Roxen, Hymgho, Inkwell Ideas, ironsworn, Keith Baker, kickstarter, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, runequest starter set, shannon appelcline, Steve Kenson, strixhaven, swords of the serpentine, the dee sanction, traveller, Troll Lord Games, TSR, Vampire: The Masquerade, wizards of the coast, worlds without number

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #105

June 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

It’s the run-up to D&D Live 2021, and Wizards of the Coast find themselves in hot water. Renegade and Paradox have pushed turbo on Vampire: The Masquerade, and while Kickstarter activity is down in launches, it’s up in requests.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, against the darkmaster, arc, Arion Games, bloat games, bounty hunter, Brittannia Game Designs, chamomile has adventures, Chaosium, dark places & demogorgons, dms guild, Dungeons & Dragons, electric bastionland, fallout, forgotten realms, Free League Publishing, guy sclanders, hasbro, HeroQuest, Infinity, Inkwell Ideas, inspirisles, joseph mccullough, Ken St Andre, lion banner games, momatoes, mork borg, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, rangers of shadow deep, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, savage worlds, scp, Sentinel comics, sidequest, Steve Jackson Games, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, trollish delver games, twilight: 2000, Vampire: The Masquerade, vincent baker, virtual tabletop, wizards of the coast, wizkids, World Anvil, worlds without number

Planning for the unplanned: Inkwell Ideas offers up monster hunting RPG Sidequest Decks

April 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

On offer and funded within hours are RPG Sidequest Decks. The decks include monster lairs, small towns and pulp adventures.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cards, Inkwell Ideas, kickstarters, sidequest

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #83

January 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised: RPGs summarises weekly RPG news, new releases, interviews with roleplaying designers and handy tips.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alan bahr, amit moshe, Arcadia, blades in the dark, Brittannia Game Designs, candlekeep mysteries, chessex, Chivalry & Sorcery, city of mist, crafty games, Cults of the Blood Gods, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Dungeons & Dragons, Free League Publishing, Ill Gotten Games, Inkwell Ideas, mcdm, mork borg, onyx path publishing, Outland Entertainment, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Renegade Game Studios, routinely itemised, tombpunk, trokia!, vaesen, w.m. akers, wizards of the coast

Inkwell Ideas to publish a fantasy font

January 10, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You might already be familiar with fonts like Wingdings that let you write in symbols rather than letters.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: Inkwell Ideas

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #71

October 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Routinely Itemised is Geek Native’s weekly RPG news summary, complete with a roundup of new releases, freebies, interviews and reviews.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, adventure system, Arion Games, astate, beadle & grimm's, Bruce Cordell, bundle of holding, Chaosium, Corpus Malicious, cortex prime, critical role, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, dnd beyond, Dragonlance, Dream Realm Storytellers, Elder Scrolls, en publishing, fat dragon games, Free League Publishing, gama, halloween, handiwork games, idyll creations, Inkwell Ideas, king arthur pendragon, kobold press, Loke BattleMats, lynne hardy, Modiphius Entertainment, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, Nightfall Games, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, R. Talsorian Games, rhianna pratchett, Rivers of London, roll20con, routinely itemised, savage worlds, Shadow of the Demon Lord, soulbound, stargrave, terminator, the grinning frog, the wildsea, vaesen, warhammer, wizards of the coast

2020 ENnies nominations announced

June 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The 2020 ENnie Judges Spotlight winners and 2020’s nominees have been announced.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, Ad Infinitum Adventures, alien rpg, Arc Dream Publishing, beowulf, burning games, Call of Cthulhu, cubicle 7, Delta Green, electric bastionland, ENnies, exalted funeral, Expeditious Retreat Press, Free League Publishing, Green Ronin Publishing, handiwork games, hit point press, humblewood, icarus, Inkwell Ideas, lancer, Loke BattleMats, magpie games, Massif Press, mork borg, nibiru, oliver clegg, Pelgrane Press, quest, Renegade Game Studios, river horse, rowan rook and decard, Stygian Fox Publishing, the halls of arden vul, the ultraviolet grasslands, the yellow king, thousand year old vampire, Tuesday Knight Games, wet ink games, witch+craft, wizards of the coast

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