Hi All,

I promised updates every two weeks, so here's the first! 

Hopefully some of you saw there was a new release to the software the other day.  (We posted a video about it and if you're using the 2025 version you likely saw an "Update Available" button in the menu bar.) Get it here.

The key changes vs. the prior release are:

I hope to finish some of the export options (UVTT and/or another format) in the next update.

I expect to be getting licenses & icon sets out to you all by mid November, but I am also spending a good chunk of time standardizing all the past icon sets.  (Setting them all up in similar folder structures, fixing some names, etc.) These will update the files on DriveThruRPG & our website, so if you've already got them, you'll get the benefit of this work too! We'll have the pledge manager running in mid-November as well.

So what's next for Inkwell Ideas?  Honestly, I'm usually putting my time into several things at once. Prior to launching the Worldographer 2025 crowdfunding I had been working with writer Andrew Shields on a few new card decks with a new concept: Hexploration Decks! Andrew has taken the lead with writing these after we worked out the format and initial samples. We've got over 1/3 of the three planned decks written and the rest spec-ed out.  He's leading the remaining work--I just enjoy/read/critique/test what he creates.

In a nutshell, over 2/3 of the cards are "Location" cards with intriguing art of a fantasy location on one side and the back has a few charts of ideas to bring it to life in different ways for your campaign.  About 5 cards are guidance for making a hex crawl or sandbox and rules for running a player-driven campaign. The remaining cards (about 10) have a theme on each side with charts centering on that theme which can be applied to most Locations for even more variety.  For example: interesting ways to make the location haunted, have historical significance, be involved with fey, etc.

We've got a large 54 card sample linked from the campaign teaser page. It won't launch until next year, giving us plenty of time to finish the features promised in Worldographer and a few rounds of further bug fixes.

Thanks again for your support!  
Joe