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Monday Monster: Deathshade Wisp
from Courts of the Shadow Fey

By Matthew Cicci / September 14, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Monsters

Every kingdom has its royal guards: stoic souls with vigilant eyes, strength of arm, and unmatched loyalty. The Courts of the Shadow Fey are no different. That final quality — loyalty — has forced the black-hearted nobles of the court to seek guardians from unorthodox sources. Knowing no living shadow fey could be trusted to […]

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Winner! The Finest of Tabards

By Kobold Staff / September 11, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

Our t-shirt contest was a modest success, with a dozen entries from around the world showing gamers and KQ readers in all their finery. There’s many we remember fondly: the clockwork automaton, the drow, the dragon eating a hapless gamer at GenCon. Alas, it came down to two entries: a KQ reader and a maiden

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Interview with Joshua Stevens

By Kobold Staff / September 10, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, interview

The great minds at Critical Hits have interviewed Joshua Stevens, the KQ regular and Open Design leader of The Red Eye of Azathoth project. It’s a quick interview that covers Josh’s inspiration (hint: a bar napkin may have been involved), why Open Design projects have been so successful, and likely patron contributions to the project.

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Preview From Shore to Sea:
Bone Crabs

By Brandon Hodge / September 7, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Monsters

I tell ya, boys, we’ve fished up and down this coast for years and never seen anything like ’em. We’d found what was left of Ol’ Patch and his crew — washed up on the shore there, all picked apart to bones and gristle. It was bad enough seeing ’em like that, and worse when

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From Shore to Sea and Sunken Empires Commission Met

By Kobold Staff / September 3, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

We’re happy to say the official Paizo adventure From Shore to Sea and the related Sunken Empires sourcebook have met their commission, and the design is moving forward. It’s still possible to sign up as a patron; if you do, you’ll see the first round of feedback from Paizo editors today.

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Beret Tinglefoot, the Demon Tinker

By Jonathan Jacobs / September 3, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

Beret quickly hobbled down the pebbled path, unwilling to stop and look back for even a moment. Behind him, and behind the closed iron doors to his toy forge, he heard a cacophony of whirring, whining, and grinding, the sounds of the Reapervast. His finest creation was thinking for itself now, and it was not

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Start Your Campaign With a TPK

By Kobold Staff / August 31, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

Sometimes you’ve got to end it all before you can get started. Ennie-winning Tales of Zobeck contributor Ben McFarland starts a new five-part series by taking a look at Michael Kortes’ piece from Kobold Quarterly #10, “Back and Better than Ever.” He offers a way to integrate the article’s death feats into the beginning of

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Open Design to Write Official Paizo Adventure

By Kobold Staff / August 30, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

Open Design has agreed to design an official adventure for the Paizo campaign setting of Golarion. The adventure will be called From Shore to Sea and will describe an ancient set of ruins off the Cheliax coast. The project’s lead designer is Brandon Hodge, whose work on Halls of the Mountain King and strong pitch

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Friday Funny: 10 Things I ♥ About KQ

By Ryan Costello, Jr. / August 28, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

In honor of Kobold Quarterly’s landmark 10th issue, here is a list reflecting on the best things about this fine magazine. 10. It’s like 10,000 spoons when you need 10,000 spoons. 9. If not for his KQ editorial duties, Wolfgang Baur would be free to walk the Earth. 8. The Ecology articles give you insight

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Open Design Podcast 4:
Greenwood, Kenson, Styrsky

By Wolfgang Baur / August 28, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Open Design Podcast

I can’t believe it’s been a month, but GenCon always plays havoc with a sense of time. The latest and greatest Open Design Podcast is now available for your listening pleasure. In addition to regulars Skip Williams and Monte Cook, yours truly and co-hosts Ed Healy and Rone Barton discuss the recent crop of ENnie

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Review: Dwarves of the Ironcrags

By Kobold Staff / August 27, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, In The Press

One of the biggest and best RPG bloggers, Uncle Bear, recently took a look at the Dwarves of the Ironcrags book. It seems to have hit the mark: As I was scribbling in my purple dragonskin notebook, rejecting and crossing off ideas almost as quickly as I can come up with them, Wolfgang Baur apparently

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Trapsmith: The Skull-On-A-Rope

By Maurice de Mare / August 25, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Traps

Every good trapsmith knows about the three C’s: Cheap, Crude and Cruel. Every wise trapsmith knows that goblins excel at designing traps based on the three C’s and as a result, many retain the services of a goblin as a servant or assistant. Neighbors may complain, but consulting a goblin’s expertise is usually worthwhile, as

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Monday Monster: Svara

By Phillip Larwood / August 24, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Monsters

This well muscled dragon has fine scales the color of overripe lemons and strangely luminous green eyes. Its wings are short and seem barely capable of lifting it off the ground and its body is stocky and lacks the grace of its draconic brothers, yet its claws are razor sharp and its mouth is filled

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Review of Tales of Zobeck

By Wolfgang Baur / August 21, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, In The Press

I wasn’t sure how the release of Tales of Zobeck to the wider public would go over. If this review is anything to judge by, though, it was the right move. Let me just say that this is one well-deserved [Silver ENnie] award, and this ebook should go to the top of your list of

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Triple Launch:
Shadow Fey, Azlant, and Azathoth

By Wolfgang Baur / August 19, 2009 / Articles, Front Page

To date, Open Design has been about competition between competing proposals, pitting projects and editions against one another. In an effort to accommodate everyone, we even completely redesigned Halls of the Mountain King in two editions. While that project was huge, we’re not pursuing that approach again. We’re learning from the experience and doing something

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Trapsmith: Shadowspores

By Maurice de Mare / August 18, 2009 / Articles, Front Page, Traps

Nothing is quite so important to a trapsmith as novelty and invention in design. For in their war against trespassers, new tricks tip the balance of power in the trapsmith’s favor. This is why some trapsmiths favor the art of alchemy: in the alchemical world, innovation takes place at an extraordinary speed, providing new tools

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