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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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Steven D. Russell: A Player of Games

By Jeremy L.C. Jones / July 29, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, interview

Steven D. Russell has written for E. N. Publishing, Bastion Press and Expeditious Press, among others. He’s worked on Monsters Evolved, Verrik Evolved and The Rituals of Choice Adventure Path. These days he focuses on being the Lord Protector of Rite Publishing. Like many designers, Russell is first and foremost a player of games. “I

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Trapsmith: the Mauruvian Harp
and the Corridor of Remembrance

By Maurice de Mare / July 28, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Traps

When the sun’s rays shone through the airshaft and struck the corridor’s murals, the Maruvian caste-nobles ended their long vigil and touched the door of their father’s tomb, whispering their final farewells. The caste-nobles gathered where the corridor led out, patiently waiting for the Lifesinger priest to appear. When he finally arrived, he struck his

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Review: Eminem as a Fey Pact Warlock

By Wolfgang Baur / July 28, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Reviews

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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Monday Monster: the Suffering Man

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

Here, then, is the source of the screams. A giant that has been stripped and burned, pierced and flayed until there is nothing left but a mass of weeping sores upon sores, cankers, and wounds. This suffering monstrosity stares at you with sad, lidless eyes and snorts through the hole where its nose once jutted.

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2nd Review Roundup at the KQ Corral

By Kobold Staff / July 24, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, In The Press

So the first set of reviews was pretty good, we’re doing it again. And starting with RPG blogging legend Uncle Bear (named one of the Top 100 Geeks to Watch on Twitter by WIRED magazine). Uncle Bear: I would use this in my own game, and I’d go out of my way to find a

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Kobolds Have a Plan

By Kobold Committee for Hope and Dignity / July 24, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

As kobolds, we are used to losing. We suffer, we perish in vast numbers, it is the way of the world. But we live in hope. That is, we believe that it would be very very very very very nice to win. Just once. Ok, maybe twice. And so we draw your attention to the

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Open Design 003: Kobold Quarterly 10

By Moonstew Productions / July 23, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Open Design Podcast

Open Design 003: Kobold Quarterly 10 Chaos and Creativity edition Welcome to the Open Design Podcast, a discussion about game design and game mastery with hosts Wolfgang Baur, Ed Healy and Rone Barton. Regular Features: * ‘Ask the Kobold’ with Skip Williams * ‘Game Theories’ with Monte Cook John Wick created Legend of the Five

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My Friends, the Dwarves

By Wolfgang Baur / July 22, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

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

By Wolfgang Baur / July 21, 2009 / Articles, Editorials, Front Page, In The Press

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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A Mighty Monday:
Kobold Turns 10

By Kobold Staff / July 20, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

The big 1-0! Double digits! Kobold has gone into the decile universe! Kobold Quarterly hits the big Roman numeral X with our Summer issue, which features so much good stuff that Qeeg and Jiro just about had a hernia carrying all those boxes to the store: * A Sneak Preview of the Pathfinder RPG by

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Tea Leaves! Rat People! Odin!
A Conversation with Greg Stolze

By Jeremy Jones / July 16, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, interview

Greg Stolze has worked on games for White Wolf, Atlas Games and Arc Dream Publishing, among others. He’s a game designer with a love of streamlined rules and good storytelling. Stolze, in the words of James Lowder, editor of the Origins award-winning Hobby Games: The 100 Best, has been “a key player in several of

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Trapsmith: The Passage of Devouring Waters

By James Arthurs and Benjamin McFarland / July 14, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Traps

Rushing water is as deadly as fire, and can carry away the largest ogre in a moment. The Passage of Devouring Waters is an elaborate defense that uses the power of water to augment a larger structure with a deadly surprise. If things go as planned, your party may never crawl into a villain’s lair

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Five ENnie Nominations for Open Design

By Kobold Staff / July 13, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

We’re very happy to report that Open Design has been nominated for five ENnie Awards this year, including: Best Writing (Kobold Quarterly) Best Aid or Accessory (Kobold Quarterly) Best Electronic Book (Blood of the Gorgon) Best Electronic Book (Tales of Zobeck) Best Web Site (Kobold Quarterly) As always, the competition looks fierce, but that’s all

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