“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” —Edgar Allan Poe About a year ago, I started a Kingmaker campaign for Pathfinder. Without spoiling much, there’s a location in that Adventure Path that begs for a homebrew dungeon themed around the Dark Tapestry. I drew up a map, […]
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Midgard Tales — the most epic adventure anthology to date for the Midgard Campaign Setting — has arrived in hardcover! We invited some of the most creative game designers working today to create adventures that would define the Midgard setting, with locations that range from the magic-warped West to the gloriously savage eastern steppes. And
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That’s right! It’s time to vote for the 2013 ENnie Awards, and we want to celebrate a few nominations of our own here on the Kobold Press blog. If you haven’t already done so, please share some small but fierce congratulations to those who worked on the following products, which we’ve organized by ENnies category
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Author’s Note: Starting with this entry, I will be creating my monsters using the Pathfinder system rather than Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition. The Pathfinder stats for the first monster in the desert monsters series, the blood snake, can be found at the end of this article, and its story-oriented text is in the original
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Midgard Icons presents some of the Midgard Campaign Setting’s major NPCs as icons for use in 13th Age, the new fantasy roleplaying game from Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet. Bring them into your 13th Age campaign; run 13th Age in the world of Midgard; or port the icon relationship rules into your system of choice.
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Sometimes we just do not have the time or ability to write up a detailed background but want something to guide us in roleplaying situations. For those times, writing down three short, concise statements on a note card will give you something you can use. This method takes only as long as you need to
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“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.” –Robert Frost Last week, I tried to test the interest in an encounter using the two tapestry templates I presented. While the
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This report comes from Joe Cirino, who was in contact with Wolfgang recently regarding his Midgard Summer report. His whole group received copies of the Player’s Guide to the Seven Cities, which you can find at Paizo.com and DriveThru RPG. Not too long ago, our group finished running To the Edge of the World. Now
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This year’s nominees for the annual Gen Con EN World RPG Awards (ENnies) are out, and we’re delighted to report that three Kobold Press books are in the running! Midgard Campaign Setting by Wolfgang Baur, Brandon Hodge, and Jeff Grubb: Best Setting We asked Brandon Hodge how he felt about the nomination and he wrote
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The six talismans monk, an archetype for the monk class detailed in New Paths #5: The Expanded Monk and Ninja, introduced a monk that utilizes ki-infused paper talismans in combat to damage, bind, or seal away opponents. These feats present new options for the six talismans monk, broadening the possible application of paper talismans.
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The Silver Skull Mark Chadbourn 424 pages, Pyr Paperback, $6.80 ISBN 1591027837 Introducing Will Swyfte, who has earned the descriptors of spy, adventurer, swordsman, rake, swashbuckler, wit, and esoteric scholar. His exploits against the forces of Spain have made him famous, which isn’t exactly good for a spy. But Swytfe’s above-the-covers, undercover life has been
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Thanks to all the backers out there, the Deep Magic Kickstarter closed with the following stats: 1,927 backers $126,031 pledged of $10,000 goal That is, frankly, amazing. And wonderful. We have so much gratitude for each and every backer out there, and we hope that you all had fun being part of the process. Even
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“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.” —Aristotle Last week, I wrote a template for this site I wish I could redact or recant. For those fortunate enough to have missed it: Do not click on this link. I was wrong to discuss the “fiction” of H.P. Lovecraft or its impact
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Back on June 10th, the Deep Magic Kickstarter began its interesting and rather spectacular adventure into the realms of Pathfinder magic. As of this writing, it’s nearly at 1,000 percent of its original funding goal. That means that this is going to happen—this project is already funded. And it’s going to happen BIG because of
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Though PaizoCon 2013 has come to an end, the Kobolds have some charming and fun images from the convention to share with you. Come tour the gallery, wherein you can see smiling faces, happy Kobolds, and fun times. Our Kobold photographers were Wolfgang Baur and Shelly Baur—many thanks to both for sharing their images and
After many years of research, the kobolds are ready to share some of their most treasured secrets: their traps and a set of trapsmithing rules, as discovered by expert trapsmith Maurice de Mare! Traps make your game better and add a sting of surprise to any encounter. The Trapsmith sourcebook provides you with more than
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