Skip Williams is one of the designers of 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons. He’s also a regular columnist for Kobold Quarterly. We ran out of room in the upcoming issue for his Ask the Kobold column, so we’re running those questions here on the site, together with Skip’s insights on game design decisions. Enjoy! QUESTION: […]
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Not all traps are deadly, some are just insidious. The kobolds of Zobeck have long since grown weary of manlings stealing away their carefully mined silver. To discourage the big folk, a consortium of devious kobolds versed in clockworks and alchemy recently created a substance called “Silverlust” to trap their silver troves with, an alchemical
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Etowah, TN (WKQ News): Investigators from the Tennessee State Police are investigating yet another brutal murder in the isolated area known to local youth as Lover’s Lane. As in the previous three cases over past two months, the woman was stabbed once in the abdomen, while the male was gruesomely skinned alive. Police aren’t releasing
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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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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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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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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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Because there’s a million gaming sites and blogs and podcasts, I’ll just mention a few I like. KQ contributor Jonathan Drain offered up the 7 Habits of A Successful Dungeon Master recently, which I like because it’s short and yet it’s clear he knows where the DM pitfalls are. Definitely worth a look, even for
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Yes, despite various life-threatening adventures, Kobold Quarterly has reached its first anniversary with the release of issue #5! This issue is a great one (though I may be biased), because it includes: An Exclusive 4th Edition Interview:
Clearly we’ve lost our minds, but we’re giving away free issues with new subscriptions. For the rest of May, new subscribers get an extra freebie. All new PDF or print+PDF subscriptions until June 1 get 5 issues for the price of 4. There’s no codes to enter, no weird requirements. Take advantage today in the
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If the current commission were for just a 3E project or just a 4E project, it would already be funded; patrons have supported the work and there’s lots of interest. In a perfect world, I would be merrily writing up the outline and taking the first couple of rounds of polls, brainstorming, and feedback by
Sure, kobolds hate gnomes. But not ALL gnomes. In particular, we like Gnome Stew. While the meat dish is delectable, it’s more than that. Gnome Stew is a new game mastering blog written by GMs, and it s founded by Martin Ralya, the same mad genius who brought you Treasure Tables. Like Kobold Quarterly, Gnome
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