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Early access campaign management software in Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1039110/Ikarus/ Based on the customer reviews, it really seems like an early access product. But at least it’s free...

Worldspinner looks like a promising automatic tool for generating new worlds from scratch: https://ui2.worldspinner.com/

Kanka is an online campaign management tool that was launched in 2017: https://kanka.io/en/faq It’s free (Patreon-supported), allows collaborative campaign management and has an API for third-party tool development. It also seems to be less than well known. There are some neat features, like...

This newcomer on the Virtual TableTop scene looks promising: http://foundryvtt.com/ This is a self-hosted system, so no subscriptions are needed. A demo is available.

The dungeon design software Dungeon Fog has now officially launched. If you login and create at least one map during this launch weekend, you can even earn a sweet achievement. :) A basic account is free.

In the summer the German "Better than Life" development team ran an unsuccessful Kickstarter for their campaign management tool YARPS. Today they have announced that the project will return. In the Kickstarter campaign they did not show much of the actual tool, but have now decided to create a...

A Patreon project for a new world creation tool called Legend Keeper launched this week: https://www.patreon.com/legendkeeper The tool is still a work in progress and not that many details have been revealed, but apparently the approach is map-based: you start with an overview of the world...

Here’s an interesting idea - a shared virtual battle map that each player can interact with using their own device: http://www.trapstreetstudios.com/theCalamus/about/ [I moved this from the RPG Tools thread into a separate thread to make any future comments and updates easier.]

There recently has been a free city map created that showed up on itch.io, it allows you to make cities of different sizes, include or not include regions or key parts of a city. They also allow you to change how the map looks with different colors, as well as actually editing the placement of...

A cool generator idea: http://rpgrando.com/movie-personality-mashup/index.html I could really use one of these for the Razor step in my Adventure Building Course!

What digital tools do you use to keep track of the days and months in your campaign?

Hey, I've had CL for over a year (I think) and I couldn't figure out how to work it, but finally the Loopy Session Planning got through my brain. I'm making buckets and such. One thing I wanted was to put my PC's character sheet stats on CL but the word count is only 300-400 words (I'm running...

This is a curious one. The Ultimate Games Master application has clearly put effort into their online presence, but hard facts about the app(s) are harder to come by. Apparently it's a tool by a three-people team, and was supposed to launch in the beginning of August. Subscription options are...