As kobolds, we are used to losing. We suffer, we perish in vast numbers, it is the way of the world. But we live in hope. That is, we believe that it would be very very very very very nice to win. Just once. Ok, maybe twice. And so we draw your attention to the […]
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Open Design 003: Kobold Quarterly 10 Chaos and Creativity edition Welcome to the Open Design Podcast, a discussion about game design and game mastery with hosts Wolfgang Baur, Ed Healy and Rone Barton. Regular Features: * ‘Ask the Kobold’ with Skip Williams * ‘Game Theories’ with Monte Cook John Wick created Legend of the Five
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Anyone who has gamed with me for any length of time knows I’m a bit of a dwarf-o-phile. They’re my favorite PC race, even moreso than kobolds. So it is with great pleasure that I present to you the release of the second Open Design gazetteer, Dwarves of the Ironcrags. The book is packed with
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We asked a few bloggers to give us their opinions on KQ10, and boy did they ever! This was a bit of an experiment; you never know what people will say when you get out the portfolio or send out the gaming magazine and oh-so-innocently ask “So, what do you think?”. Here’s seven short takes
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The big 1-0! Double digits! Kobold has gone into the decile universe! Kobold Quarterly hits the big Roman numeral X with our Summer issue, which features so much good stuff that Qeeg and Jiro just about had a hernia carrying all those boxes to the store: * A Sneak Preview of the Pathfinder RPG by
A Mighty Monday:
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Greg Stolze has worked on games for White Wolf, Atlas Games and Arc Dream Publishing, among others. He’s a game designer with a love of streamlined rules and good storytelling. Stolze, in the words of James Lowder, editor of the Origins award-winning Hobby Games: The 100 Best, has been “a key player in several of
Tea Leaves! Rat People! Odin!
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Rushing water is as deadly as fire, and can carry away the largest ogre in a moment. The Passage of Devouring Waters is an elaborate defense that uses the power of water to augment a larger structure with a deadly surprise. If things go as planned, your party may never crawl into a villain’s lair
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We’re very happy to report that Open Design has been nominated for five ENnie Awards this year, including: Best Writing (Kobold Quarterly) Best Aid or Accessory (Kobold Quarterly) Best Electronic Book (Blood of the Gorgon) Best Electronic Book (Tales of Zobeck) Best Web Site (Kobold Quarterly) As always, the competition looks fierce, but that’s all
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Like many gamers, I first “met” Joseph Goodman, the owner of Goodman Games, through a Dungeon Crawl Classics module. For me, it was DCC #17: Legacy of the Savage Kings by Harley Stroh, which like all DDCs, begins with: Remember the good old days, when adventures were underground, NPCs were there to be killed, and
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Steve Kenson is a geek—a professional geek. He’ll proudly tell you as much. Case in point: not only did he write three novels about his first Shadowrun character, he also named his company, Talon Studio, after him. Kenson has worked on games and sourcebooks for White Wolf, Wizards of the Coast, and Steve Jackson Games,
Leaving Room to Breathe:
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There is something unsettling about this leather satchel; how the leather has retained its hairs, how the hasp seems to be almost gripped by its leather sheath, and most of all the fleshy color of the leather, with blemishes and moles upon its pasty surface… Some say that the word ‘safe’ is a misnomer, that
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This huge monster’s long sinuous scaled body slithers through dark forests. Vast wings the color of midnight rise from its back, and four wavy black horns sprout from its evil serpentine head; its wings can fold back entirely flush with its long body. The kulshedra’s scales are burnt greenish-orange in hue and its eyes glow
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It turns out that kobolds are bi-lingual. I don’t mean they have forked tongues (though they do), but rather that KoboldQuarterly.com has quietly and stealthily been posting some articles in translation. The translation work has been done by José Montero, and we can’t thank him enough. Here’s the four articles currently available, due to his
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So I’ve been reading the Pathfinder RPG for a while, and there are a few things about it I absolutely love. One of them was the fact that halflings get Abyssal as a default language. The little buggers have always seemed sort of suspicious to me, frankly. Not as dour as a dwarf, not as
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If you’ve played Dungeons & Dragons at all in the last decade, you’ve probably run into Bruce R. Cordell’s work. And if you’ve used his gaming books or run his adventures, you’ve probably noticed that there seems to be some larger—some epic—arc connecting it all. If you’ve ever met him at a con or online,
The Simple (Yet Epic) Elegance
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What happens to your spells if the ability score that governs them is somehow reduced? Do you lose any spells? If your spellcasting ability is reduced to 0 or less do you lose all your spellcasting ability? Some of these questions are easy to answer, and some are trickier. Let’s start with the easy answers:
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