Wolfgang Baur (left) and Sigfried Trent (right) manning the Kobold booth at Paizocon 2010. An awesome spread of loot (you can’t even see the traps), dire weasels safely hiding under the table, backs to the corner to keep an eye on everyone, a “secret door” behind for easy escape when (not if) things go badly: […]
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Frequent kobold contributor, Ben McFarland, wants to help your game. How? He has pulled together his list of influential works—or the Golden Scrolls of Dungeonmastering—that could drastically improve your enjoyment of this game we all love, from Monte Cook’s “Game Theories” column that runs in Kobold Quarterly to Robin Laws’ Robin’s Laws of Good Game
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Here it is from 3.5 Private Sanctuary, a video montage of PaizoCon 2010 complete with musical accompaniment! According to videographer Ryan Costello, “Don’t mind the mysterious five minutes of black at the end. There’s no easter egg, it’s just a glitch.”
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The first day of PaizoCon 2010 is in the history books, and the kobold crew has to say: We like this convention. Friendly, small, well-run. Also, full of chatty people who like the Open Design projects and the magazine. We should totally do this every year. Oh yeah, we do; lucky us! If you’re at
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Ok, there’s only so much excitement one can have about setting up a booth at a convention, but we’re pretty much pushing the limit. Wolfgang, Shelly, Scott, Anne, Sigfried, and Adam will all be staffing the booth for a while, and Brandon Hodge may do a signing of From Shore to Sea and Sunken Empires
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What are reviewers saying about Imperial Gazetteer, Open Design’s source for the legions of the dead in Zobeck for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game? … authors Wolfgang Baur and Scott Gable go to great lengths to give each faction within the empire a face, detailing many specific undead nobles’ and generals’ personalities and motivations. I also liked
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What are reviewers saying about Monster Chronicles: The Inevitable? … the text details a rather interesting origin story of the first inevitable, Zurvan, the Iron Angel… … also somehow manages to squeeze in information about the more common inevitables (the kolyarut, marut and zelekhut) and some examples of unique or named inevitables (all of which
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What are reviewers saying about the recently released Sunken Empires (print/PDF)? If you’d like to drop your campaign into Atlantis or Mu you should get this book. You get new Pathfinder monsters like the Coral Drake and the Goblin Shark. New spells like Barnacle Armor and Sea Legs (which would have come in handy when
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“As a designer, your work enables new experiences in play for others. If you are doing it exceptionally well, you are inventing new game genres and new play styles; that is, entirely new methods, styles, and systems of play. You use technology, art, and your own vision of what it means to play to create
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Frequent kobold contributor, Ben McFarland, is very busy. Aside from having a review of Hexographer up this morning right here at KoboldQuarterly.com, he has also decided to take a deeper look at the rules of torture introduced by Hank Woon in KQ#11. Check out Ben’s article “Torturing Player Characters” at the blog Dungeon Mastering.
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PaizoCon 2010 is right around the corner. We’re going. Are you? Here’s our seminar schedule: Breaking Into Game Design Evergreen Room, Saturday 05:00 PM – 06:00 PM Speakers: Wolfgang Baur, Brandon Hodge, et al. Learn about the roads into the games field for aspiring game designers: organized play, blogs, small press, magazines, and patronage projects are
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Kobolds love gadgets, even ones that don’t include hidden poisoned spikes or triggers that drop you into pits. So we’re happy to announce that we’ve gotten our claws into the newest shiny gadget on the market. Behold! Yep, you can now buy The Kobold’s Guide to Game Design, Vol. I, at the iPad’s iBookstore…
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Over at Critical Hits, the Dungeon Master Guys have released a new podcast. Wolfgang Baur, King Kobold himself, discusses using published adventures with Enrique the Newbie DM, Phil the Chatty DM, and Dave The Game. Check it out.
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What are reviewers saying about Monster Chronicles: The Inevitable and Monster Chronicles: The Nightmare? … you have a cult on your hands. A cult, in this instance, which believes that the universe runs like clockwork and anything, anyone who might interfere needs to be dealt with. Permanantly. There is plenty packed in here, feats and
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This week sees the release of Sunken Empires, and already bursting at the seams, there was simply too much material for its pages alone. It was packed to the GILLS! Ha! Ahem, anyway… this week, to celebrate, Kobold Quarterly presents new gaming bits, complementing what’s already packed within Sunken Empires and all from the same
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