Druids vs. Aliens: Fight! The third rules-light solo adventure in our Party of One series is available for download at the Kobold Store! BB3: Alosar Emanli and the Creatures from the Fallen Star puts you in the role of a young apprentice druid who finds himself on his own as evil creatures from the stars […]
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The next rules-light solo adventure in our Party of One series is available for download at the Kobold Store! BB2: Elgar Fletch and the Dark Army puts you in the role of Elgar, a backwoods hunter and trapper whose life is turned upside-down as strange appearances in the woods foretell an invasion that threatens the
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As a kid, whenever I went to visit my relatives over the summer, I mourned the hours missed playing D&D with my friends. My salvation came in the form of choose-your-own-adventure type game books. Whenever I wasn’t visiting elderly second cousins and great-aunts, I’d spend hours immersed in solo adventures, battling alone against dragons, giants,
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As of today there are just five days left to join Journeys to the West as a patron before prices go up. To mark this milestone, here are five typical dangers that mariners face in fantasy fiction and roleplaying games. 1. Life vests not yet invented in your world. 2. For 200 years after life
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The basic formula for fantasy roleplaying is simple: kick down doors, kill monsters and take their stuff. That’s how Jeff Tidball, AGE System Lead Developer at Green Ronin, calls it in the introduction to the new Midgard Bestiary: Volume 1 by Josh Jarman. Between its covers lurk some of the greatest monsters that Open Design
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Three intrepid kobold panelists joined forces at PaizoCon to discuss the topic of improvisation and game mastering: Adam Roy, Wolfgang Baur, and Jeff Grubb. What did these three masters have to say? Let’s start with something basic: Improvisation (or “improv,” as some say) is how you deal with a situation for which you weren’t prepared,
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Good question! To answer it, Wolfgang Baur, Jeff Grubb, and Christopher Bodan led a seminar called Publishing in Kobold Quarterly at PaizoCon, where they went over a few extremely important things to keep in mind when you pitch a project to Open Design. One of the biggest things: Be aware of copyright and intellectual property issues.
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It’s Saturday at PaizoCon 2011. A crew of panelists congregated in a not-so-hidden location to share their collective wisdom and secrets regarding small press publishing. Among these industry worthies: Wolfgang Baur (Open Design), Ryan Dancey (veteran industry professional), Lisa Stevens (Paizo CEO), Dale McCoy (Jon Brazer Enterprises), Stan! (Super Genius Games), Scott Gable (Zombie Sky Press),
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Sigfried Trent recently wrapped up his hugely popular Advanced Feats series with Advanced Feats: The Inquisitor’s Edge. Perhaps a little too caught up in the general excitement, several kobolds put on black cloaks and wide-brimmed hats and confronted game bloggers with the book, demanding that they confess their true thoughts about it. Here’s what the
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We’ve had a couple of big releases here recently! There’s Northlands: Roleplaying in Winter’s Chill, a Pathfinder-compatible sourcebook for adventures in Midgard’s temperate and subarctic north; and Kobold Quarterly #17, an issue dedicated to villainy with articles for Pathfinder RPG, 4th Edition D&D, and Dragon Age RPG. What are reviewers saying about them? Let’s start
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When Ed Healy sent us a link to the latest episode of his RPG Countdown podcast with the cryptic note, “Thought you’d like to have a listen…” we were most intrigued. We soon discovered that Kobold Quarterly occupies two spots on the countdown of top-selling game products! The Kobold Guide to Game Design comes in
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The Kobold King is in an unusually generous mood this week! March 20th was the 5th anniversary of Open Design, and to celebrate, he wishes to bestow his riches upon all. Kobold ideas of “riches” are often different than humans’, so we advised him that he shouldn’t give away items from his collection of filthy
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One of the most daring new classes from the Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide, the summoner lets your imagination run wild creating your own monster—from flight of fancy to darkest nightmare. Is your eidolon a two-headed black serpent that breathes fire? Or a giant flying albino ferret that swallows its victims whole? Anything’s possible with this
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Haul anchor, patrons—we’re setting sail for Green Ronin’s Freeport! You heard aright, ye scurvy dogs: two of the most infamous outlaws to sail the seas of the RPG world have signed articles and are setting out on a joint venture of danger and glory! Open Design is launching a new adventure design project for Green
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Halloween came early at KoboldQuarterly.com, when loyal reader Charles knocked on our door and asked for a treat. Specifically, he hoped we’d share one of the 30 new feats for the witch character class in Sigfried Trent’s Advanced Feats: The Witch’s Brew. No need to punish us with a trick, Charles—here, for your pleasure, is a
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