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Prime Day cybersecurity risks grow to worrying levels

October 7, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In the United States, Cyber Security Awareness Month is in October. So is Amazon’s Big Heckin’ Two-Day Prime Day. The two overlap!

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: cybersecurity, software

Ember: 25,000 hexes and perhaps a new TTRPG style born from VTT

September 22, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Ember will be a game, a setting and a sandbox. While Foundry VTT is needed, only one person in the group must have the paid-for system running. Y

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Dungeons & Dragons, foundry, kickstarter, software

Tome of Adventure Design builder: Automate your own tabletop adventures with this app and desktop tool

October 9, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are three functions in the Fantasy Adventure Builder: the Adventure Design Tool, the Table Designer Tool, and the My Generators Tool.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: Mythmere Games, software

Just a handful of Humble days on the Dungeons & Pirates 3D print offer

October 27, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Do you have access to a 3d printer at home or work or do you have easy access to one? Humble has four days left on the Dungeons & Pirates offer.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: 3d printers, bundles, humble bundle, software

Freemium Atlas VPN adds Linux support

September 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a command-line interface, some 750+ servers ready, and it supports Ubuntu, with plans to add more distros in the future.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: security, software

Maps Spectacular bundle for charity, world and battle map generation

August 28, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Dungeon Designer, City Designer and Campaign Cartographer are all included, so let’s take a look.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: campaign cartographer, humble bundle, software

Frostpunk joins the virtual Model Builder in an exclusive deal

March 18, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Joining the virtual Model Builder family is a free DLC from 11 bit studios and content from their Frostpunk city-building survival.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: software, Steam

Mind Weave RPG releases a Pay What You Want treasure map puzzle

March 7, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

James Eck and Mind Weave take advantage of a little known feature of DriveThruRPG to sell functioning bits of software.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: cartography, software

Cyberwarfare defence or shallow marketing? Atlas VPN gives free VPN support to journalists in Ukraine

February 24, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

You can email Atlas VPN to get a premium subscription and protection if you’re a journalist.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: ethics, software

Dragon Map Maker: The promise of gorgeous and quick TTRPG battle maps

December 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We may be onto the next generation of cartography tools. The third generation of solutions supports multiple views and is smart enough to auto-populate the maps with sensible and context details.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: cartography, kickstarters, maps, software

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