Weekly (?) roleplaying link roundup II

Another listing of recently discovered articles and resources of interest:

• How to create an old-world map in Photoshop
• Planewalker, the official fan site for the 2nd edition AD&D plane-hopping and Sigil-centric campaign setting Planescape
• Old-school gaming perspective is blogged at Grognardia
• An incisive critique of vertical vs. horizontal character progression in recent editions of D&D. A commenter in the reddit thread compares 4E to Magic in that characters, like decks, are now about “optimum builds” and much opportunity for color and imagination is lost as a result.
• Tutorial for a cheap, good-looking character marker creation method (provided you can draw)
• Hirst Arts Fantasy Architecture – cast your own blocks from these molds for a fraction of the price of prepainted polystone terrain
• Other terrain inspiration comes from this “here’s a wizard’s tower I made” reddit thread
• The Order of the Stick Kickstarter campaign raised 1.25 million dollars!
• Fat Dragon Games does papercraft and printable texture terrain on the cheap