That’s right, folks, Skip Williams will now be answering Pathfinder Roleplaying Game questions in his regular column Ask the Kobold! Is there some aspect of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game you’re a little fuzzy about? Did you just switch over from 3.5E and just aren’t sure how something translates? Do you just want to try to […]
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You’re gonna want the lights on for this. The Imperial Gazetteer is here! You won’t ever be the same. (And don’t think death will save you.) The Imperial Gazetteer is the 4th Edition sourcebook that details the principalities of Morgau and Doresh and the Empire of the Ghouls. On the surface, who can hope to
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And just what are reviewers saying about the latest issue of Kobold Quarterly? I’d always thought of KQ as Dragon’s little sister… Well, I just got my hands on a review copy of KQ #11, and let me tell you something: little sister’s all grown up, and she’s looking pretty hot. …Great artwork and interesting
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Why should evil overlords have all the fun? Sometimes it needs to be about the minion! Ennie-award-winning designer Ben McFarland continues a new five-part series by taking a look at Richard Pett’s piece from Kobold Quarterly #10, “Ecology of the Hill Giant.” He offers a way to turn this monster into the signature foot soldier
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The newest Open Design Podcast, a discussion about game design and game mastery, brings us a slate of expert guests, including: * ‘Ask the Kobold’ with Skip Williams * ‘Wicked Fantasy’ with John Wick * Green Ronin publisher Chris Pramas * Open Design stalwart Joshua Stevens * Operatic madman Nicolas Logue We talk about game
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The 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction podcast gave glowing reviews to KQ and Open Design in their latest installment, Episode 46. The show is a project of Brian Isikoff and Chris Hanranhan, an owner of the Endgame store in Oakland CA.The whole show is worth listening to, though if you are mostly interested in
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Our t-shirt contest was a modest success, with a dozen entries from around the world showing gamers and KQ readers in all their finery. There’s many we remember fondly: the clockwork automaton, the drow, the dragon eating a hapless gamer at GenCon. Alas, it came down to two entries: a KQ reader and a maiden
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The great minds at Critical Hits have interviewed Joshua Stevens, the KQ regular and Open Design leader of The Red Eye of Azathoth project. It’s a quick interview that covers Josh’s inspiration (hint: a bar napkin may have been involved), why Open Design projects have been so successful, and likely patron contributions to the project.
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We’re happy to say the official Paizo adventure From Shore to Sea and the related Sunken Empires sourcebook have met their commission, and the design is moving forward. It’s still possible to sign up as a patron; if you do, you’ll see the first round of feedback from Paizo editors today.
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Sometimes you’ve got to end it all before you can get started. Ennie-winning Tales of Zobeck contributor Ben McFarland starts a new five-part series by taking a look at Michael Kortes’ piece from Kobold Quarterly #10, “Back and Better than Ever.” He offers a way to integrate the article’s death feats into the beginning of
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Open Design has agreed to design an official adventure for the Paizo campaign setting of Golarion. The adventure will be called From Shore to Sea and will describe an ancient set of ruins off the Cheliax coast. The project’s lead designer is Brandon Hodge, whose work on Halls of the Mountain King and strong pitch
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One of the biggest and best RPG bloggers, Uncle Bear, recently took a look at the Dwarves of the Ironcrags book. It seems to have hit the mark: As I was scribbling in my purple dragonskin notebook, rejecting and crossing off ideas almost as quickly as I can come up with them, Wolfgang Baur apparently
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Never let it be said that Kobolds never win! We are very pleased to announce that Kobold Quarterly has won the Silver ENnie Award for Best Website. Much to our surprise and delight. We tried to swipe the Gold, but that went to our honorable friends at Obsidian Portal (and deservedly so). The competition was
Kobolds Take the Silver…
And the Gold!
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The Origins Award nominated Kobold Guide to Game Design gets a writeup over at the WIRED blogs. Here’s what they’re saying: So, you want to break into RPG writing? Or maybe you just want to write better adventures for your players. Could be you aren’t a roleplayer and just love the worldbuilding aspect of writing
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At KQ, we don’t just care about great fantasy gaming in the Kobolds & Dragons tradition. No, we also care about style, fashion, and celebrity gossip killer traps. Ok ok, our fashion sense sucks, but we sometimes like to wear cool t-shirts. And now we have one! The KQ t-shirt will robe you in sartorial
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