Friday Funny: Drizzt vs Elminster
R.A. Salvatore tells us how the epic FR matchup would pan out. In his view. [audio:https://koboldpress.com/audio/diplomacy004.mp3] We await a response from Ed Greenwood.
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Kobold Guide to Game Design, Vol. 2
The first KOBOLD Guide to Game Design was a sleeper hit, compiling advice from Wolfgang Baur, Ed Greenwood, and Nicolas Logue on how to think about different genres, how to improve your game as a DM, how to make a setting come alive, and how to use design compression to strengthen your work. And the
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Gazetteer of Zobeck
It’s a huge setting to fit into such a little book. As part of the Tales of Zobeck patronage project, I wrote the first sourcebook to describe the Free City of Zobeck, a mercantile city easy to drop onto a river in any campaign. The Gazetteer takes a deep look at the two of the
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Tuesday Traps: Trapped Items
Doors, rooms and corridors need not be the only trapped things in an adventure. Likewise, curses need not be the only dangerous thing attached to items. Traps have their place here as well. The following items can find their way into PC’s possession in the usual ways. An evil merchant agent of the primary villain
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Monday Monster: Ia’Affrat the Insatiable
… in those days there flew from the plains of Hell a shadow of brimstone’s smoke, borne fast and silent as the hawk by 10,000 burning wings; in secret places it wove dark spells, and spoke beautiful lies, and spread terrible poison. The shadow befuddled the wisest of sages, struck dead the strongest of warriors
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Behind the Spells: Color Spray
Behind the Spells: Color Spray is the first in a series produced for the Kobold Quarterly by Tricky Owlbear Publishing. For those unfamiliar with the series, “Behind the Spells” provides a historical background, secret effects, and related material to one of the classic spells of the world’s most famous fantasy roleplaying game. The rules are
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Monday Monster: the Drop Bear
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (WKQ News): A tourist today was admitted to Canberra Hospital with severe injuries to his head and back. Officials report that the tourist, whose name is being withheld pending notification of his family, was attacked while exploring the outback. They suspect the animal in the attack was a dingo, and completely
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Friday Funny: Salvatore’s Favorite Edition
R.A. Salvatore can get a laugh out of any topic, even the edition wars and the end of Drizzt’s saga. Give his take on those a listen. [audio:https://koboldpress.com/audio/diplomacy003.mp3] Got a favorite Salvatore book? Got a Friday Funny of your own? Tell us in the Forums.
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Monte Cook Reviews Kobold Quarterly
A few words from Mr. Malhavoc about what he likes about the magazine (including one surprising element), and what elements he thinks could still improve. Monte reviews issues #6 and #7 in particular. I’m somewhere between delighted and ecstatic. And um, subscriptions are available here.
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Ask the Kobold: Gestalt Characters
Skip Williams is one of the designers of 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons. He’s also a regular columnist for Kobold Quarterly. As long as you send in your questions, we’ll keep running the column here for free. But if you don’t ask the kobold, don’t expect a reply! If I were to run a gestalt
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Templeforge Skycasters
Some spellcasters spend their lives spurning the ground and its heavy tread, but a few look to non-arcane means to overcome the limits of earth like the Templeforge Skycaster. Fusing the arts of engineering and magic, they take to the skies and seldom return to earth. Their magic is as large as the heavens, and
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Monday Monster: the Huldra
Tiveden, Sweden (WKQ News Europe): We’re here in Tiveden National Park to report on a sudden spate of hunting accidents plaguing the area. Game is scarce, but accidents and avalanches are more than plentiful. Some people claim that ‘troll women’ haunt these forests, driving off game and sabotaging hunters. Local legends tell of handsome girls
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Friday Funny: the Drunken Shocker Lizard
We ran an adventure back in Dungeon that had a scene with a lot of shocker lizards running amok in a wizard’s lab, and I just got seized with the urge to draw a bunch of them. I suspect that this little shocker lizard has some sort of unpleasant potion miscibility going on for drinking
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Ask the Kobold: Bending the Rules
Skip Williams is one of the designers of 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons. He’s also a regular columnist for Kobold Quarterly. As long as you send in your questions, we’ll keep running the column here for free. But if you don’t ask the kobold, don’t expect a reply! I encountered an odd thing recently. A
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Tuesday Traps: Mantraps
Most traps aim to kill or maim, overlooking the importance of capturing victims intact. Fur traders use mantraps to protect their investments, but not many creatures intent on protecting their stronghold do the same. Typical traps and snares used for game must be modified to catch larger and more intelligent humanoid victims because — especially
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Monday Monster: The Wendigo
Grandmother’s Bay, Saskatchewan, Canada (WKQ News): A rash of murders in this Cree community has folks wondering just what law enforcement plans to do about the problem. While some folks think the tribal elders should turn matters over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, many believe this tribal matter should remain under the jurisprudence of
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