Ladies and gentlemen, the cover to the Tales of Zobeck Gazetteer. Given that this Open Design project is packed with the details of the clockwork city and related adventures featuring devils, plagues, and yes, clockwork foes, I couldn’t be happier. The artist is Malcolm McClinton, and if you stick around, you will more from him. […]
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London, UK (WKQ – London News): The investigation of the vicious attacks on Samantha Grey, 27, and Catherine Hulme, 32, last week in Greenwich has taken a strange turn. Their mysterious assailant, dubbed the “Leaping Man,” is now believed to be re-enacting the Spring-Heel Jack mystery of the 1800s. In related news, Professor Robert Enthel
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The Master of Horror, the man personally responsible for unleashing Blood of the Gorgon on an unsuspecting group of patrons, speaks about his recent Sinister and D&D projects and about Kobold Quarterly in this Pulp Gamer podcast. Worth a listen, just to hear the voice of this twisted creature. I rest comfortably at night knowing
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Kobold Quarterly and Open Design have been very fortunate in the quality of their freelancers. I’m happy to announce that Open Design has accepted an adventure from Ed Greenwood of Forgotten Realms fame. His adventure is a tale of dueling merchants in the Gullet, one of the seediest districts of Zobeck. If you’d like a
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Sicklerville, NJ (WKQ News): Farmers in this Camden County town are growing more concerned by the day. They say their livestock – cows, pigs, and horses mostly – are being attacked in the evening. Few animals have survived the attacks, and the deaths have been especially grisly. New Jersey Game and Wildlife officials are on
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Nicolas Logue designed the recent Open Design project, Blood of the Gorgon, a dark and thrill-packed adventure that recently shipped to its patrons. Here he offers some lessons learned and some final reflections on the Open Design process: Gaming is not necessarily an art, but its close enough. The way it differs from painting or
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Detroit, MI (WKQ News): The severe storms have left the Detroit metro area. Over the past 24 hours, Detroit has suffered intense thunderstorms, with wind gusts up to 80 miles per hour felling trees and utility poles throughout the region. A spokesman for DTE Energy reports it could be a week before power is completely
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Harley Stroh mostly writes adventures—good old, down and dirty dungeon crawls reminiscent of the AD&D modules of yesteryear. His scenarios feature vengeful rat kings, bat-riding goblins, and twisted, giggling evil gnomes who worship the eldritch crystal that deformed them. In a Stroh adventure, there are plenty of new monsters, exotic magic items, and more than
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I talked with the Pulp Gamer podcasters about recent events, including the Diana Jones Award and future plans. The audio is available at the Pulp Gamer site.
The review of the latest issue at ENWorld is very kind, and points out for particular praise both the Ecology of the Phantom Fungus and the Tiefling article by David “Zeb” Cook. As to whether we’ll be able to continue with color interior pages next issue, well, that depends on subscriptions and advertisers, as you
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James Jacobs is the editor-in-chief of Paizo Publishing’s Pathfinder line. Over the years, he has worked as the associate and later the managing editor of Dungeon magazine. He’s been the developer, lead designer, the guy who adds material here and there, and even the cartographer on projects for Bastion Press, Green Ronin Publishing, Wizards of
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You may know the RPG blogger Chatty DM, a fine fellow who offered a GM-Fu seminar at GenCon, and who has recently made quite a splash on the RPG scene. Well, he’s doing it again, this time with an adventure design project. He calls it Kobold Love, and it’s taking a page from the Open
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Matt Forbeck has been working full-time in the gaming industry for almost two decades. His CV reads like a hardcore gamer’s none-too-modest Christmas wish list. A freelancer for most of his career, he has worked, in some capacity or other, for everyone from Atari to Wizards of the Coast, from Games Workshop to White Wolf.
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I’m completely floored by it, but Open Design has tied for this year’s Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming. My co-winner is Jason Morningstar, for Grey Ranks. I’m shocked, but so very pleased. Who knew that the “weird” patronage approach would win awards?
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Kobold Quarterly is taking a short break from the magazine mines to visit the glories of Indianapolis, Indiana, home to the Gen Con show. If you are doing the same, please do make a short pilgrimage to booth 2515 to say hello or visit with us at the KQ Freelancing seminar on Friday. Postings will
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KQ is a quarterly. And yet here we are, doing a fifth issue. Sure, we’re calling it an annual, but really kobolds can’t count. Our innumeracy is your gain! The PDF issue has gone out to subscribers, and those lucky folks also get a free copy of the Kobold Death Maze adventure from Super Genius
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