In the recent interview I did, I mentioned my love of fencing, feinting, and second intentions. Let me show you how that is applied to trapsmithing. First, let’s acknowledge that the players are excellent and efficient problem solvers. A GM presents a problem and most players will find a solution for it within a minute—usually […]
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Maurice de Mare, trapsmith and author of the traps and adventure you’ll find in the Trapsmith book by Kobold Press, has taken several minutes of his time to answer a few questions for us! Come see what he has to say about designing traps, playtesting the adventure, and Paizo’s RPG Superstar. You’ve been a long-time
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A Guile of Dragons James Enge 320 pages, Pyr Trade Paperback, $17.95 ISBN 978-1-61614-628-3 This book starts out with Merlin. I’m sure you’ve heard of him—he hung out with that guy who had that table and that sword. It turns out he had a son named Morlock, and thus A Guile of Dragons has a
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A top-quality collection of DRM-free Pathfinder ebooks from Kobold Press — pay what you want and support charity! The Bundle of Zobeck offers an outstanding collection of Kobold Press Pathfinder ebooks — characters, locations, magic, and adventures. For one price you set yourself, you can get the complete collection — over 500 pages of DRM-free
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Master Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus presents only the finest in British gaming. Indeed, you are not likely to find a more comprehensive assortment of miscellany anywhere. (So much more than just another bloke in a dress.) When the Bough Breaks “For the final time, come down off your perch and sit.” “But, master, the cat’s boils
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“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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