Off to the Convention
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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Posts by Wolfgang Baur
Interview with Brandon Hodge
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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New Design Essays
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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Open Design Podcast 4:
Greenwood, Kenson, Styrsky
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
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Review of Tales of Zobeck
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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Triple Launch:
Shadow Fey, Azlant, and Azathoth
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
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Tales of Zobeck
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!
Review: Eminem as a Fey Pact Warlock
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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My Friends, the Dwarves
Anyone who has gamed with me for any length of time knows I’m a bit of a dwarf-o-phile. They’re my favorite PC race, even moreso than kobolds. So it is with great pleasure that I present to you the release of the second Open Design gazetteer, Dwarves of the Ironcrags. The book is packed with
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7 Quick Takes on KQ10
We asked a few bloggers to give us their opinions on KQ10, and boy did they ever! This was a bit of an experiment; you never know what people will say when you get out the portfolio or send out the gaming magazine and oh-so-innocently ask “So, what do you think?”. Here’s seven short takes
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Halflings Speak Abyssal
So I’ve been reading the Pathfinder RPG for a while, and there are a few things about it I absolutely love. One of them was the fact that halflings get Abyssal as a default language. The little buggers have always seemed sort of suspicious to me, frankly. Not as dour as a dwarf, not as
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Free Dice Running Low
We’ve been giving away dice at a steady clip (ok, ok, they’re disappearing faster than I thought), and we’re down to the last 100-some sets. This is by far the biggest promotion we’ve ever done, literally thousands of dollars of dice shipped to subscribers. Take advantage of it today just by subscribing to either the
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Kobold Ecologies Unleashed!
Yes ladies and gents, Kobold Ecologies has been unleashed up on the world. Lord have mercy, it’s a monster! This book collects every ecology from every issue of Kobold Quarterly to date, updates them and revises them, and then ADDS MORE Ecologies. It’s an Ecology sandwich. And those new ones are not just any additional
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KOBOLD Nominated for ORIGINS Award
I love surprises, especially ones like this: the KOBOLD Guide to Game Design, Volume 1, has been nominated for an ORIGINS Award. As this comes out of left field, I am especially delighted. Details on the Origins Award site. Wow! If you haven’t read it yet, what’s stopping you?
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A Review of KQ #9
There’s a quick review of the new issue over on ENWorld. I think it is especially on track with this key quote: [Monte Cook’s column and the interviews] especially help cement KQ’s position as a gaming magazine, rather than an OGL or 4E publication. We are working to make Kobold Quarterly as broadly useful to
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