Random Encounters: Twenty

Not RPG related, but I think there’s a sizable overlap between RPGers and board gamers, so…
I’m quite proud to announce my Dominion Randomizer. It’s called, cleverly enough, “Asmor’s Dominion Tool.” I know, I rock the casbah when it comes to names.
It’s optimized for use on iPhones and iPod Touches, and should work pretty well on [...]

Random Encounter Generator updated

I’ve updated my random encounter generator so that it uses all the data from the Wizards of the Coast database.
Will be working on updating the other tools as time allows. I think that was the most popular of them, in any case.
At the moment, I’m caching the table on my local server. Some time in [...]

Exclusive D&D Insider Compendium API details

So to cut a short (but uninteresting) story even shorter, I stumbled onto a way to get XML results from Compendium searches, opening the door for people to run queries against the compendium programatically. For example, I’ve just updated my Monster Maker with the ability to search the compendium for monsters and import them (this [...]

Monster Maker 3.6

I’ve updated Monster Maker to 3.6. You can now search the D&D Insider Compendium from within Monster Maker, and import monsters directly from it.
Those of you who have the auto-updating version should get it next time you start it (if you haven’t already!). Otherwise you can download it now from here.
The standalone version will be [...]

Digital Squire 1.0 Released!

I’m pleased to announce the release of Digital Squire, my new D&D 4th Edition player aid with tight D&D Insider integration. Load your character made with the DDI Character Builder, keep track of your status throughout the game, and look up your powers and items in the DDI Compendium right from the program!

Digital Squire Beta

What you’re looking at there is the beta of my latest project, Digital Squire.
Digital Squire is intended to be a replacement for character sheets, used by PCs at the table. It keeps track of powers, healing surges and hit points (including temporary hp). It allows you to look up any power in the D&D Insider [...]

Making kickass campaign sites with MPTW

MPTW (Formerly: MonkeyPirate TiddlyWiki) is absolutely amazing for making campaign sites. The really key feature to it is TagglyTagging. What’s TagglyTagging? Well, I could tell you, but it’s a lot easier to show you. Here’s the site for a campaign I ran last year.
See that gorgeous, hierarchical menu? How much time do you think I [...]

Storybook

Just wanted to pass this along in case someone finds it useful.
Via freewaregenius, Storybook is some free, open source software specifically made for organizing plots. It has features to keep track of plot threads, characters, locations, who was where when, etc. Check out freewaregenius for a more in-depth review.
Seems like it would be useful for [...]

Monster Maker Linux & Mac

I’ve got some really good news for those of you who aren’t as big a fan of Windows as I am.
I’ve had two people confirm to me that Monster Maker seems to be working under the latest release of Mono on Linux. Presumably, this means it should work on Macs as well. I have no [...]

4th edition multiclassing tool

Here’s an untitled tool designed to help you find synergistic multiclassing in 4th edition. It takes into account which weapons/implements are used by the classes and what stats are important to them. It rates them on a scale from 0 (no synergy at all) to 5 (ideal match, meaning the classes share a primary and [...]