The Tales of the Old Margreve continues to gather patrons very quickly, and the brainstorms are gathering both amazing spells and monsters—plus a certain amount of silly fun. Frankly, there are so many rich forest myths and legends here that we can afford to choose just the very best, and develop them for both playability […]
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As the Open Design experiment has expanded and won critical and publishing success, a few people have clearly shown just how great collaborative adventure design can be. Tim and Eileen Connors are right at the top of the list, and I’m happy to announce that Open Design is commissioning a project that they will lead:
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Wouldn’t it be great if your dice never fell off the table? What if every attack roll came with a sound effect, and your character’s damage, marks, and every other condition were all tracked for you? It would be the perfect gaming table, no? Well, stop wishing because it exists and I saw it in
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Open Design’s own 4th Edition patronage project, Courts of the Shadow Fey, is all up in your stuff, stealing your babies and snorting your finest dreams. Because that’s just what fey do. Fey Politics The design for Courts of the Shadow Fey has a twist at its heart, like a lover’s betrayal. It begins with
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As the third project in a series of public updates on Open Design’s current batch of patronage projects, KQ.com presents Courts of the Shadow Fey, Open Design’s 4th Edition project. Duelists and Team Players Back in the days when I was working at TSR in Lake Geneva, I played a wide range of lunchtime board games
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Some of you may be familiar with the time-honored tradition of “going to 11.” KQ is right there with its latest issue, because Kobold Quarterly #11 is loaded with things that go right up to the edge, and then one more. Don’t believe me? Here’s a sampling of the just-a-little-more philosophy at work: 1) An
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Ok, I was away for a convention, and then there was launching the Courts of Shadow Fey, and shipping some Gazetteer goodness, and there’s a magazine around here somewhere that needs tending. I swear a new framistan is on order, and we’ll have a full slate of posts and mayhem for you next week, folks.
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I’ll be at Pure Speculation in Edmonton this weekend, talking on some panels and generally talking games. Other guests include Monte Cook and Aaron Acevedo. Stop on by and say hello!
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A quick interview on how to write better adventures and then how to run them most effectively, with Brandon Hodge and yours truly over at Roleplayingtips.com. We blather a bit about how to plan an adventure, how to spice up an encounter, the most useful design tools, and related topics.
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As part of the Open Design projects that I design, I generally write a set of essays. Some of these have been collected (with contributors from others) into the Kobold Guide to Game Design series. For Courts of the Shadow Fey, I have a set of topics chosen ahead of time, though I’m open to
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I can’t believe it’s been a month, but GenCon always plays havoc with a sense of time. The latest and greatest Open Design Podcast is now available for your listening pleasure. In addition to regulars Skip Williams and Monte Cook, yours truly and co-hosts Ed Healy and Rone Barton discuss the recent crop of ENnie
Open Design Podcast 4:
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I wasn’t sure how the release of Tales of Zobeck to the wider public would go over. If this review is anything to judge by, though, it was the right move. Let me just say that this is one well-deserved [Silver ENnie] award, and this ebook should go to the top of your list of
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To date, Open Design has been about competition between competing proposals, pitting projects and editions against one another. In an effort to accommodate everyone, we even completely redesigned Halls of the Mountain King in two editions. While that project was huge, we’re not pursuing that approach again. We’re learning from the experience and doing something
Triple Launch:
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Open Design is pleased to announce that the Tales of Zobeck anthology, which won the Silver ENnie as Best Electronic Book on Friday, is now available from the Kobold Quarterly store. You no longer need to be a patron to see this award-winning adventure series!
Possibly the most awesome KQ10 review we will blurb all week comes from super-powered funnyman Wyatt Salazar over at The Spirits of Eden blog. The Spirits of Eden: Kobold Quarterly #10 gave me some good times. We laughed together, we cried together, we wondered whether the Haffun racial power was really sexual innuendo. Do I
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