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Monster Mayhem: Things of Madness and Desolation, the Feats (Part 4)

By Richard Pett / October 28, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Monsters

If there is one thing you can say for certain about aberrations, they are all different. They are defined by their strange, twisting natures. Nowhere else can you find such diversity—even between related individuals. The perversity of their form and function knows no bounds. Aberrant, Perverted [General] This sickening monstrosity is an affront to the […]

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Monster Mayhem: Terror Bird

By Aeryn Rudel / October 28, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Monsters

Fast and furious, terror birds run down prey with single-minded intensity, shredding and devouring warm flesh with seeming enthusiasm. These large, flightless predatory birds are often apex predators in primeval forests and grasslands. With formidable beaks and talons, both massive and razor sharp, these birds easily disembowel creatures with a single swipe. Terror Bird Lore

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6 More Reviews of Kobold Quarterly #11

By Kobold Staff / October 27, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Reviews

And just what are reviewers saying about the latest issue of Kobold Quarterly? That was awesome! They have fright rules for 4E, which is very Call of Cthulhu’esque… If your characters are plane hopping and you want to introduce them to some really [messed]-up [stuff], it’s perfect… I may introduce those rules [in our own

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Monster Mayhem: Things of Madness and Desolation (Part 3)

By Richard Pett / October 27, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Monsters

Occasionally aberrations mate with other races to observe the outcome or to carry out bizarre and inhuman experiments to learn or simply amuse themselves. This template is the result of this terrible act. New Monster: Stricken Aberrant [template] It had once been a dragon—that much was certain. Its bone white flanks towered above us like

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Ask the Kobold, now in Pathfinder flavor!

By Kobold Staff / October 26, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

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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Monster Mayhem: Things of Madness and Desolation (Part 2)

By Richard Pett / October 26, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Monsters

There’s something down there. The waters around the sunken and forgotten City of the Nadir pollute everything that comes too close and taint all that enter its twisted ruins. Occasionally, parts of the mad city rise to the surface for a night, a month, or even a lifetime of man. Spawned in the City of

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Monster Mayhem: Things of Madness and Desolation (Part 1)

By Richard Pett / October 23, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Monsters

The face, if face was the correct word, was ashen. This was no earthly creature but a thing from somewhere wrong. And as the waterspout engulfed the ship, the creature before me bowed obsequiously to its tentacled master, now rising from the boiling ocean. This, then, was merely the slave. I began to sob

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Imperial Gazetteer Must Eat Flesh!

By Kobold Staff / October 22, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

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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Review of Kobold Quarterly #11

By Kobold Staff / October 22, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Reviews

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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Hump Day Hazard: Shadowcreep Ice

By Scott A. Murray / October 21, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Traps

Common in places touched by the cold grasp of shadow, shadowcreep ice is an unnatural substance that freezes in areas of darkness and melts when exposed to light. Rumored to have first dripped from the stalactites of a grotto inhabited by an undead primordial, this hazard has claimed the lives of numberless adventurers who had

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Trapsmith: Rocks Fall!

By Maurice de Mare / October 20, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Traps

(Illustration by Marc Radle) Bone-crushing boulders chasing frightened adventurers: a classic scene, usable in any campaign. The rolling rock trap is designed to enable that classic scene. Rolling Rock Trap (CR 1) Type mechanical; Search DC 20; Disable Device DC 22 Trigger location; Reset manual Effect Atk +10 melee (2d6) Market Price 1,400 gp

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Monday Monsters: Facestealer

By Phillip Larwood / October 19, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Monsters

“I will become you!” Prerequisite Doppelganger While all doppelgangers are accomplished shapeshifters, some take the art of shapeshifting to new levels. These doppelgangers are able to impersonate not just the physical form of another creature, but also some aspects of their personality, experience, and knowledge, becoming in essence the very creature they are copying. Because

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Kobold Goes One More

By Wolfgang Baur / October 18, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

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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Unconventional Dreaming:
A Conversation with Jeff LaSala

By Jeremy L. C. Jones / October 18, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, interview

Novelist and game designer Jeff LaSala is perhaps best known for his Dungeon Crawl Classics: The Transmuter’s Last Touch and his Eberron novel, The Darkwood Mask. Both of these, it is important to note, involve kobolds. Lots and lots of kobolds. In fact, it is safe to say that Jeff LaSala is a bona fide

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How Would You Stop the Seasons? A Conversation with Kevin A. Ross

By Jeremy L. C. Jones / October 16, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, interview

Kevin Ross is back. Miskatonic River Press is back. With a Call of Cthulhu license from Chaosium, Cthulhu is once again dreaming, and all across the world, investigators are being scared witless. A veteran horror RPG writer, Ross has contributed to over 30 products, for companies such as Chaosium, Pagan Publishing, and Miskatonic River Press.

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Temporary Framistan Trouble

By Wolfgang Baur / October 13, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

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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