There’s this wonderful little, game-loving library in Fernwood, Idaho. Games in libraries, you say? Sign us up! So the kobolds made a donation. Well, they sent us back these amazing pictures of one of their recent game days. “While we’re a small community, your donation made a big difference. We had great fun and played […]
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Are you ready to “go vertical”? To discover the “third dimension” of tabletop gaming? Terrain adds something visually visceral to your miniatures gameplay. Even something as small and simple as barrels, boxes, walls, and trees can make a difference in player attention spans. (You can also buy terrain. There are many fine places to get
“And why should we ally with the likes of you?” the baron asked. The tall bearded warrior glared silently letting the tension in the room build before speaking. “Because you want your enemies to suffer before they die.” The baron laughed nervously for a moment, “Yes, I think I like you already. Let’s be friends.”
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A fan named Style75 reviews Lost City over at the Wizards of the Coast site: Bravo! I bought the PDF last night and I can tell you it is fantastic. This is a quality product that has been carefully put together. It makes me want to start a new campaign just to try it out.
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Yep, we’re as stunned as you are, but the quality is there and the reviewers are calling it as they see it: we’ve gotten five 5-star reviews in a row! How did we do it? Sigfried Trent took all the feedback to the original Advanced Feats series, added some tweaks and compilation elements (like a
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The recent release of the Lost City adventure has given several Open Design patrons their first professional credits. One of these designers, Tracy Hurley, talks about what she learned from the Lost City project in her “Learning to Pitch” blog post. She breaks down the process of design and the elements she needed to get
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Designer and Midgard project patron Joshua Jarman blogs about the intersection of the AGE System ruleset and the support that the second rules set is getting during design. : [Designing as a patron] is a fun, creative process, and the collaborative nature leads to the development of the best ideas presented. As far as Dragon
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Sigfried Trent recently wrapped up his hugely popular Advanced Feats series with Advanced Feats: The Inquisitor’s Edge. Perhaps a little too caught up in the general excitement, several kobolds put on black cloaks and wide-brimmed hats and confronted game bloggers with the book, demanding that they confess their true thoughts about it. Here’s what the
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We’ve had a couple of big releases here recently! There’s Northlands: Roleplaying in Winter’s Chill, a Pathfinder-compatible sourcebook for adventures in Midgard’s temperate and subarctic north; and Kobold Quarterly #17, an issue dedicated to villainy with articles for Pathfinder RPG, 4th Edition D&D, and Dragon Age RPG. What are reviewers saying about them? Let’s start
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When Ed Healy sent us a link to the latest episode of his RPG Countdown podcast with the cryptic note, “Thought you’d like to have a listen…” we were most intrigued. We soon discovered that Kobold Quarterly occupies two spots on the countdown of top-selling game products! The Kobold Guide to Game Design comes in
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The Open Design griffon has a free gift for the lucky recipients of the Kobold Courier this time out, plus plenty of other news: • an interview with designer Dan Voyce, • playtest opportunities for patrons of several projects, • a podcast with some possibly familiar names, • two free previews for Freeport,• Taverncraft contest
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The kobold staff is delighted to note that Kobold Quarterly magazine has made it on the GeekDad holiday list for this year, along with other worthy items such as the Castle Ravenloft board game and the Pathfinder RPG core rules. We proudly quote their stunningly accurate description from 2009: this independent D&D magazine is known
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The Labor Day edition of the Kobold Courier went out yesterday, with news from a cartography contest to a free RPG, plus the latest on the Open Design commissions, new columnists, and more. There’s even a picture of the elusive web editor, Scott Gable, in his natural habitat. Want your own copy of this free
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This very site — KoboldQuarterly.com — and the Open Design Podcast have been nominated for ENnie awards in the Best Blog and Best Podcast categories, and Open Design has been nominated for Fan Favorite publisher. We’re honored that the judges choose to recognize KQ and the Open Design work of the last year, and we’re
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The 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction podcast gave glowing reviews to KQ and Open Design in their latest installment, Episode 46. The show is a project of Brian Isikoff and Chris Hanranhan, an owner of the Endgame store in Oakland CA.The whole show is worth listening to, though if you are mostly interested in
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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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