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Triple Launch:
Shadow Fey, Azlant, and Azathoth

By Wolfgang Baur / August 19, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

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

By Wolfgang Baur / August 18, 2009 / Uncategorized

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!

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Trapsmith: Shadowspores

By Maurice de Mare / August 18, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Traps

Nothing is quite so important to a trapsmith as novelty and invention in design. For in their war against trespassers, new tricks tip the balance of power in the trapsmith’s favor. This is why some trapsmiths favor the art of alchemy: in the alchemical world, innovation takes place at an extraordinary speed, providing new tools

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Monday Monster: Kobold Knockers

By Richard Pett / August 17, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Monsters

Had I not paused, I would have crushed its skull, thinking it to be a kobold. It was a kobold, and yet it was not – no kobold smokes a pipe, wears blue breeches, and carries a spyglass. And no kobold would ever quote poetry. Or would it? And would I ever be able to

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Kobolds Take the Silver…
And the Gold!
And MORE SILVER!

By Kobold Staff / August 15, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

Never let it be said that Kobolds never win! We are very pleased to announce that Kobold Quarterly has won the Silver ENnie Award for Best Website. Much to our surprise and delight. We tried to swipe the Gold, but that went to our honorable friends at Obsidian Portal (and deservedly so). The competition was

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The 7 Ales of Ninkash

By Quinn Murphy / August 13, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

Lay worshipers and priests of Ninkash spend much time brewing ale. Every drop of the ale they make, which has had prayers to the matron goddess of dwarven wine and beer chanted over it during the brewing, is “holy ale.” But certain ales are infused with the magic spells of the Vaer, the priests of

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Ask the Kobold: Teleport and Shadow Walk

By Skip Williams / August 12, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

Why in the world is the shadow walk spell 6th level when teleport is 5th level? Is seems to me that shadow walk’s travel limit of 50 miles/level is less useful that teleport’s 100 miles/level. Besides, teleport is instantaneous travel, whereas shadow walk can eat up hours of game time. Why shouldn’t shadow walk be

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Kobold Guide to Game Design at WIRED

By Kobold Staff / August 11, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, In The Press

The Origins Award nominated Kobold Guide to Game Design gets a writeup over at the WIRED blogs. Here’s what they’re saying: So, you want to break into RPG writing? Or maybe you just want to write better adventures for your players. Could be you aren’t a roleplayer and just love the worldbuilding aspect of writing

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The More Fantastical It Can Be:
Map Talk with Jonathan Roberts

By Jeremy L.C. Jones / August 6, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, interview

Maps do much more than tell us where we are or how to get where we’re going. Maps tell us about the world they depict and the cartographer who created them. As RPG cartographer Jonathan Roberts says, “A good map should be functional. The primary purpose of any map is to be clear and precise.

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Ask the Kobold:
Why Villains Rearrange their Furniture

By Skip Williams / August 5, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

Is it possible to learn enough about a location through a scrying spell so you can teleport there? The combination of scrying and teleporting seems very potent and capable of breaking an adventure. Is there a way to limit this combination of spells without cutting them off completely?

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Trapsmith: The Refuse Pit

By Maurice de Mare / August 4, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Traps

First and foremost, trapsmiths are engineers, and not every project concerns itself with the destruction of intruders. Waste disposal is a daily concern for most dungeons and once collecting and carting it away becomes cost inefficient. Trapsmiths are contracted to deal with the problem — and sometimes they make the solution a bit of a

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Looking Good: The Kobold Quarterly Tabard Contest

By Kobold Staff / August 3, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

At KQ, we don’t just care about great fantasy gaming in the Kobolds & Dragons tradition. No, we also care about style, fashion, and celebrity gossip killer traps. Ok ok, our fashion sense sucks, but we sometimes like to wear cool t-shirts. And now we have one! The KQ t-shirt will robe you in sartorial

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Monday Monster: Clockwork Hounds

By Ben McFarland and Scott Gable / August 3, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Monsters

They were once the province of the corrupt aristocracy, running down escaped slaves and tracking prey in hunting expeditions. Those days are gone, but the clockwork hounds still tick and hunt. The Praetors of Zobeck seized them during the revolt that established the Free City, and now, they operate only on the command of the

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That Sense of Awe, Wonder, and Mystery:
a Conversation with Hank Woon, Jr.

By Jeremy L.C. Jones / August 1, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, interview

Game designer Hank Woon, Jr. got his start with Demonblade, a 15,000-word adventure that appeared in Dungeon 97. The best part of Demonblade for Woon was that he got to include a new prestige class, the Keshen Blademaster, who hail from the land of Kesh and are fierce enough when encountered alone. And profoundly deadly

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RPG Countdown

By Kobold Press / July 31, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, In The Press

Kobold Quarterly 10 is making a lot of people’s lists, all of a sudden. It made it onto the RPG Countdown (a podcast covering the most popular items over at RPGNow). It’s #6 on the Paizo bestselling games list, and it’s also #6 on the DriveThruRPG list of Hottest Small Press. Yeah, we’re small press

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In Praise of External Limitations:
Map Talk with Ralf Schemmann

By Jeremy L.C. Jones / July 30, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, interview

Ralf Schemmann is a designer for ProFantasy Software Limited. Currently, he works on “styles” for Campaign Cartographer. He is also a web designer and freelance cartographer with a love for classical fantasy campaign maps. “The guidelines I use are generally very loose, since maps vary so wildly,” said Schemmann. “The most important one is probably

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