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Your Whispering Homunculus: For One Night Only—Troll-Touched (Part 1 of 2)

By Richard Pett / March 25, 2011 / Articles, Front Page, Your Whispering Homunculus

Master Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus presents only the finest in British gaming. Indeed, you are not likely to find a more comprehensive assortment of miscellany anywhere. (So much more than just another bloke in a dress.) [previously] __ “It is true, is it not, leechling, that we take after our pets?” “Master?” “A dog for example […]

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A Gallery and Last Call

By Wolfgang Baur / March 24, 2011 / Articles, Front Page

Last day of the Open Design 5th anniversary sale, we’re stumbling around a bit. The looting has been intense, we’re out of stock on some things, and yet… A few artists also brought presents: pictures of Jiro! So here’s the gallery of additional artist takes on Jiro the kobold, as done in fine style by

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Never Work for Wizards: The Magocracy of Bemmea and Allain

By Wolfgang Baur / March 23, 2011 / Articles, Front Page

A word of advice to all those who think things get better once you leave the Goblin Wastes and enter the safe lands of the Magocracy of Bemmea and Allain: Things don’t really get better. The Exarch and all those mages cracked open the walls of the reality. The madmen of Caelmarath called down the

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Gibbering Oracles (Part 1 of 4)

By Stefen Styrsky / March 23, 2011 / Articles, Front Page

How can a god be mad? Some sages claim all the gods are mad, and we are but the figments of their raving intellects. Yet madness does not just mean a disordered mind caught up in its own delusions and faux-reality. If madness is one man’s illusion, perhaps sanity is also an illusion, but one

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Yarang

By Kevin Keller / March 22, 2011 / Articles, Front Page, Monsters

Before you hovers a black blob with two large, bat-like wings and a huge reptilian eye in its center. Whipping wildly behind it are three long tails, each terminating in a nasty stinger. Occasionally, when an evil soul is passing into its eternal torment, something happens to shatter it. Each of these soul fragments becomes

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5th Anniversary Sale: Come Feast at the Kobold King’s Table!

By Wade Rockett / March 21, 2011 / Articles, Front Page

The Kobold King is in an unusually generous mood this week! March 20th was the 5th anniversary of Open Design, and to celebrate, he wishes to bestow his riches upon all. Kobold ideas of “riches” are often different than humans’, so we advised him that he shouldn’t give away items from his collection of filthy

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Advanced Feats: The Inquisitor’s Edge Now Available!

By Kobold Staff / March 20, 2011 / Articles, Front Page

Our bestselling Advanced Feats series roars to a finish with one of the most intriguing new classes from the Pathfinder Advanced Player’s Guide. The inquisitor is a lone wolf who walks in darkness in search of his or her target, relentlessly driven by holy (or unholy) resolve. Advanced Feats: The Inquisitor’s Edge by Sigfried Trent

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Going For It: Our Incredible 5th Anniversary Sale

By Wolfgang Baur / March 18, 2011 / Articles, Front Page

The life of a kobold is a hard one. Fierce but small, they must summon all of the wits, cunning, and tenacity they can manage to survive in dungeons filled with bigger, meaner, well-established creatures. And don’t get me started on the groups of armed jerks who periodically invade their homes intent on mayhem and

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Use Skill Challenges to Start Combat (Part 3 of 3)

By Anthony Eichenlaub / March 17, 2011 / Articles, Front Page

[previously] As you enter the abandoned monastery, you notice scrawled chalk markings covering the floor and walls. They all appear to be variations on the same obscure religious symbol. In the center of the room, next to a badly decayed corpse, is written the following: “Beware the setting sun. Something comes from the forest. The

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Dragon Maladies (Part 3 of 5)

By Randy Maxwell / March 16, 2011 / Articles, Front Page

Dragons are huge, powerful creatures feared by one and all, but just as the mightiest human warrior can be laid low by the flu, so too can dragons contract, be weakened by, and even die from various diseases. What follows is a description of some—but by no means all—of the maladies and draco-disorders afflicting the

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Harrowing Haunts: A History of Haunts

By Maurice de Mare / March 15, 2011 / Articles, Front Page

A History of Haunts follows the career of Otto Geist from relatively unknown trapsmith to the leading authority on haunt manifestation. Journal Entry #1 Today was a glorious day! I encountered my very first haunt, and even though the bleeding walls and faint sobbing were somewhat disturbing—I am not ashamed to admit that I fled

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Metoprana

By Mike Welham / March 14, 2011 / Articles, Front Page

A pair of pony-sized frogs leap headfirst into massive trees, which splinter and fall after being struck by the creatures’ bony heads. Seeing a lone orc, the two frogs croak at each other and turn their attention to it. They maneuver into position on opposite sides of the orc, then propel themselves at the hapless

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Kids & Kobolds: Encounters with Rukus the Half-Orc Fighter

By Jeremy L. C. Jones (Dungeon Dad) / March 11, 2011 / Articles, Front Page

She stands on her chair, arms raised to the gods, and announces, “I am going to use my action point!” An hour ago, she had never heard of an action point. Three encounters ago, she was a fair-haired 6-year-old with a shoebox full of polyhedral dice and a carrion crawler mini named Lenny. Now, she

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Real Steel: Rumble! What Are You Bringing To The Party?

By Todd Gdula / March 10, 2011 / Articles, Front Page, Real Steel

In physics, an interesting way to work out a problem is something called a thought experiment. This allows physicists to build what is essentially an imaginary environment and create conditions that would be very difficult to create in the real world. What I am proposing to you here is that we craft a thought experiment

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Mythic Templates (Part 2 of 3)

By John Flemming / March 9, 2011 / Articles, Front Page

Templates give you an easy way to update a creature from a normal version to an elite version. Each template is assigned one or more roles, and—although it isn’t necessary—a creature is best served by using a template that matches its original role. See the 4E Dungeon Master’s Guide for more on templates. [previously] __

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Un-Familiar Companions (Part 1 of 2)

By Rob Booth / March 8, 2011 / Articles, Front Page

Wizards, sorcerers, and witches can all have familiars. While familiars continue to grow more powerful along with their masters, some arcane casters want something more. Perhaps constant exposure to their magic has shaped or warped the familiars. Perhaps they have decided to replace the familiar with a more resilient form. Or perhaps the caster seeks

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