“Just thought I’d drop a quick word and let you know, I just got my copy of Imperial Gazetteer, and I’m so glad I did. What an amazing work. Reminds me of old Ravenloft. My favorite was the description of Lord Mayor Rodyan. Keep up the great work!” —Ronald Corn KQ—Thanks, Ronald! Get your own copy […]
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Frequent kobold contributor, Ben McFarland, wants to help your game. How? He has pulled together his list of influential works—or the Golden Scrolls of Dungeonmastering—that could drastically improve your enjoyment of this game we all love, from Monte Cook’s “Game Theories” column that runs in Kobold Quarterly to Robin Laws’ Robin’s Laws of Good Game
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It’s really an excellent time to be a GM; companies are falling all over themselves catering to us. The recent releases of the Dungeon Master’s Guide 2 by Wizards of the Coast and the simultaneously retro and forward-thinking GameMastery Guide by Paizo are both excellent sources of advice and tools for running a game, full of
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Amethyst: Foundations is a cross-genre roleplaying game supplement published by Dias Ex Machina and Goodman Games. It is set in a version of Earth where technology-disrupting magic has returned to a world where humans struggle to survive the fall of their civilizations. The game is based on the 4th Edition of the Dungeons & Dragons
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What are reviewers saying about Imperial Gazetteer, Open Design’s source for the legions of the dead in Zobeck for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game? … authors Wolfgang Baur and Scott Gable go to great lengths to give each faction within the empire a face, detailing many specific undead nobles’ and generals’ personalities and motivations. I also liked
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What are reviewers saying about Monster Chronicles: The Inevitable? … the text details a rather interesting origin story of the first inevitable, Zurvan, the Iron Angel… … also somehow manages to squeeze in information about the more common inevitables (the kolyarut, marut and zelekhut) and some examples of unique or named inevitables (all of which
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What are reviewers saying about the recently released Sunken Empires (print/PDF)? If you’d like to drop your campaign into Atlantis or Mu you should get this book. You get new Pathfinder monsters like the Coral Drake and the Goblin Shark. New spells like Barnacle Armor and Sea Legs (which would have come in handy when
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In summary: Hexographer creates a map with a more old-school feel, a format familiar to anyone who played TSR modules like Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun—those trying to produce a more illustrated map will find this tool inappropriate for that task. The price is lower than Campaign Cartographer, Dundjinni, or Fractal Mapper, and it includes a
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What are reviewers saying about Monster Chronicles: The Inevitable and Monster Chronicles: The Nightmare? … you have a cult on your hands. A cult, in this instance, which believes that the universe runs like clockwork and anything, anyone who might interfere needs to be dealt with. Permanantly. There is plenty packed in here, feats and
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Monster Chronicles: The Nightmare just released and reviewers are posting their comments. Find out what the buzz is about. Forget bad dreams and wild horses, this is something quite different and—in this interpretation—a LOT more scary! There’s an amazing amount of detail crammed into the 8 pages of this book, a fine example of an
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What are reviewers saying about Imperial Gazetteer, Open Design’s source for the legions of the dead in Zobeck for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game? Above ground and below, this book provides a wealth of resources, places and people to bring undead—well, I was about to say “to life” but that doesn’t sound right—into prominence in your game,
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Kobold Quarterly #13 just released and reviewers are posting their comments. Find out what the buzz is about. Great artwork, interesting articles, loaded with fun… Tom Allman gave it 5 stars at DriveThruRPG. And… [Monte] Cook, the famed havoc mage, rambles for pages on his theories of the Unknown, and ought to fascinate even the
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The Kobold Guide to Game Design continues to be a hit. The Kobold Guide to Game Design is the single best resource I own with regards to adventure building. Volume 2 is also very good, and, even though I’m not an adventure designer, I think it’ll be useful as a tool for critique. And if
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Kobold Quarterly #13 just released and reviewers are already posting their comments. Find out what the buzz is about. Phillip Larwood’s “Ecology of the Shoggoth” for Pathfinder for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game… Besides describing the Shoggoth’s maddening mentality, plastic physiology, and vast vocal range, it gives variants of the primordial creature, new abilities, discusses cults
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Kobold Quarterly #12 has been out for over a month and there are still reviews steadily pouring in. Find out what the buzz is about. (We were even able to fool those grumpy gnomes.) Wow, that’s really a nice piece of writing; it’s all practical and no joke. This article alone is worth the price
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Wouldn’t it be great if your dice never fell off the table? What if every attack roll came with a sound effect, and your character’s damage, marks, and every other condition were all tracked for you? It would be the perfect gaming table, no? Well, stop wishing because it exists and I saw it in
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