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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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
Trapsmith: the Mauruvian Harp
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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
A Mighty Monday:
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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
Tea Leaves! Rat People! Odin!
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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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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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Like many gamers, I first “met” Joseph Goodman, the owner of Goodman Games, through a Dungeon Crawl Classics module. For me, it was DCC #17: Legacy of the Savage Kings by Harley Stroh, which like all DDCs, begins with: Remember the good old days, when adventures were underground, NPCs were there to be killed, and
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Steve Kenson is a geek—a professional geek. He’ll proudly tell you as much. Case in point: not only did he write three novels about his first Shadowrun character, he also named his company, Talon Studio, after him. Kenson has worked on games and sourcebooks for White Wolf, Wizards of the Coast, and Steve Jackson Games,
Leaving Room to Breathe:
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There is something unsettling about this leather satchel; how the leather has retained its hairs, how the hasp seems to be almost gripped by its leather sheath, and most of all the fleshy color of the leather, with blemishes and moles upon its pasty surface… Some say that the word ‘safe’ is a misnomer, that
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