I love surprises, especially ones like this: the KOBOLD Guide to Game Design, Volume 1, has been nominated for an ORIGINS Award. As this comes out of left field, I am especially delighted. Details on the Origins Award site. Wow! If you haven’t read it yet, what’s stopping you?
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There’s a quick review of the new issue over on ENWorld. I think it is especially on track with this key quote: [Monte Cook’s column and the interviews] especially help cement KQ’s position as a gaming magazine, rather than an OGL or 4E publication. We are working to make Kobold Quarterly as broadly useful to
The guys at Q-workshop love designing dice, making dice, and spreading dice across the globe. Seriously. These guys love everything about dice. Patryk Strzelewicz, owner and founder of Q-workshop, started the company in Poland five years ago while he was still in high school. A local market grew to a national market and eventually, with
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Designer Greg Stolze, known for his Ransom Model and Unknown Armies among many other credits, has kindly made himself available to the KQ diplomats. What questions would you like to put to the redoubtable Mr. Stolze? He promises to spill all! Post your question right here, or on the Forum, as you prefer.
Kobold Quarterly #9 is in the Top 10 from the RPG Countdown! This is the first time KQ has ever cracked the bestseller list at RPGNow, and I’m guessing the disappearance of the WotC PDFs might have helped, but I am delighted regardless. Their loss, KQ’s gain and all that. We climb another rung up
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The 4th Edition D&D work for Halls of the Mountain King is well underway, and here’s some of the recent progress: the brainstorming for the Gazetteer brought a lot of new and old ideas to the forefront. I have an outline. the level range has been set at 8 to 10 or 8 to 11
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The creature rose from the ruins of the church roof it had just crushed in spite. It was huge – a gangling hairy thing, with sharp nails and claws, its face a skirmish of eyes and bristle and teeth cowering beneath three curved horns. ‘Dost thou see this big body of mine? Roared the buggane.
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Aeryn “Blackdirge” Rudel used to be known mostly for creating gruesome and challenging RPG monsters. And some folks might think of him as the editor-in-chief of Goodman Games’ new 4E-only RPG magazine, Level Up, our worthy competition. Not me, though. For I have faced one of his half-dragon turtles and lived—barely—to tell about it. The
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The kitsune are a PC race for 4th Edition D&D in Kobold Quarterly #9 — but they’re also available as a 3rd Edition/OGL PC race right here. Because free is good. In myths and legends, the kitsune are shapeshifters with their own racial items, incantations, and their own innate magic. What makes these tricksters tick?
The Halls of the Mountain King patron project has begun its 4E design phase! This week’s discussion will set the level range and begin the discussion on creatures and NPCs. Frankly, I’m looking forward to seeing what ports over neatly from the existing story and setting, and what requires a prybar and a mallet to
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The foes appear to be tall, well toned humans with flecks of living crystal in their skin. The warriors are clad in scale and wield cruel flails. Behind them stands a lightly armored woman. Though not as physically imposing, you can tell from the glint in her eyes that she is far more dangerous than
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The response to the free dice giveaway has started very strong! Almost 100 sets of the 500 we have are gone, and we expect more orders to pile up while Wolfgang is away at NorWesCon this weekend. Kobold Quarterly is spending April giving away hundreds of sets of free Q-Workshop dice to new subscribers, and
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In the spirit that the best way to remember a man is to celebrate his life, here is a slightly abridged version of the interview that appears in Kobold Quarterly #9. This interview is also available in a Spanish translation by Jordi Morera. Before Greyhawk, there was Blackmoor. Before the Dungeon Master, there was the
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You know, Kobold Quarterly isn’t meant to be timely. We publish infrequently. We don’t really keep up with the industry hotness or aim to match a publisher’s release cycle. But sometimes we stumble into timeliness, much against our will. Kobold Quarterly issue #9 is a bittersweet case in point. The issue has great articles, from
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Want dice? Kobold Quarterly‘s got them and we’re literally giving them away! Kobold Quarterly is ready to give something back to every new subscriber: we are giving away hundreds of sets of free Q-Workshop dice. These aren’t just any dice, either – they are Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, Elven, Runic and other dice sets that
“What should have been a bustling mining village stood abandoned in the early morning mist. A cabin door flapped open and shut, and we stepped cautiously inside, our weapons drawn. A noise drew my eyes upward, but it was too late. Four gold rushers had wedged themselves in the rafters, and dropped upon us. I
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