It’s been a while since we have had a Black Flag update, but the drought has ended! Kobold Press is excited to announce our first public Black Flag Roleplaying Reference Document (BFRD). This document is built off the current public Alpha Release and falls under the ORC license. This means that now EVERYONE can freely […]
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All the folks at Kobold Press want to thank you from the bottom of our scaly hearts for showing us your love and faith in the Tales of the Valiant Kickstarter! ToV was born from the idea that nobody owns tabletop gaming. It truly belongs to you and everyone at your table. We can’t thank you enough
ToV Playtest Packet #4: Smallfolk & Kobolds Read More »
Playtest Packet #3, Monsters is in final review and we look forward to letting you sink your teeth into it and tell us how it tastes.
Valiant Friday Arrives! Read More »
Instead of VTT support happening after the game launch later this year, the Foundry VTT team is already hard at work. Take a look!
Heating Up at the Foundry Read More »
When the Complete Kobold Guide to Game Design took ENnies gold last year, we were delighted—because it’s a game product that helps create new game designers. Well, it happened again in 2013. The Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding won TWO gold ENnie awards for Best Writing, and Best RPG Related Product. Congratulations to Wolfgang Baur, Keith
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This year’s nominees for the annual Gen Con EN World RPG Awards (ENnies) are out, and we’re delighted to report that three Kobold Press books are in the running! Midgard Campaign Setting by Wolfgang Baur, Brandon Hodge, and Jeff Grubb: Best Setting We asked Brandon Hodge how he felt about the nomination and he wrote
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Come see what Christina Stiles has to say about the Open Design process (and more!) for Journeys to the West. Tell me what’s awesome about your new Kobold Press adventure anthology Journeys to the West. It’s sea-faring adventure. What’s not awesome about high-seas escapades and exploration? Plus, we’ve thrown in enough new monsters and islands
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The empire is a place of wonders and strangeness, since its people and its merchants serve scaly masters with needs unlike those of the humans, dwarves, and minotaurs of the north and west. Here is a sampling of some of the unique goods found in the Empire’s bazaars, from Harkesh to Sarkland and Achillon to
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Let the Journeys begin! Journeys to the West, the new 8-island, 5-adventure anthology of seafaring excitement for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is out from Kobold Press! Set sail from Barsella, the City at the Edge of the world, home of adventurers and pirates, and explore the vast, uncharted waters of the Western Ocean of the Midgard
Journeys to the West Adventure Anthology Now Available Read More »
The PDF of the Player’s Guide to the Dragon Empire is out and on the Kobold Press store webpage, and it is chock full of draconic goodness for gamemasters and players alike. Dragons in fantasy RPGs have always been problematical: Are they mythic and invulnerable beasts as in the Tolkien tradition, or are they 1st
Dragons, Dragonkin, and . . . Ostriches? Read More »
Some days, it just feels like the stars have aligned and everything is falling into place. That was the Friday of Gen Con 2012—and I don’t mean the fact that the panels went well, or that a seat opened up at the Ars Magica game, although that contributed. I mean that I sat down to
From the Deep Dark Woods of Gen Con… Read More »
We here at Kobold Quarterly would like to give a hearty kobold welcome to Marc Radle, who will take up the reins of art director. Marc, welcome to the crew! Marc is a professional graphic artist and designer by trade. In his copious amount of spare time, he also does freelance illustration, writing, and graphic
Newest Addition to the Kobold Warrens: Marc Radle, Art Director Read More »
Thank you. Five years ago, I was writing Living Greyhawk adventures as a volunteer for the RPGA. We were trying new ideas and having fun, but I wanted to do more. I joined Empire of the Ghouls as a senior patron and started learning with the community at Open Design. I playtested, I punched up
Play It Like You Stole It! Read More »
On Friday, August 17, 2012, many gathered at Union Station in Indianapolis for the ENnie Awards. The kobolds, who were already pleased at being nominated for various awards, were ecstatic when they learned the results of the fans’ votes: Open Design won gold awards for Streets of Zobeck (Best Adventure) and Complete Kobold Guide to
The Kobolds Take Home Two ENnies Read More »
Kobolds do more than build traps. They sometimes venture forth to gatherings of creatures and seek to impart their wisdom to these worthy beings. Soon, in fact, you’ll have some proof of this type of activity. Until that time arrives, you can seek out the Paizo booth in the Gen Con Exhibit Hall and pick
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We just saw a couple of great reviews from Endzeitgeist over at Paizo.com, and wanted to wave them at you! First, he calls Dark Roads & Golden Hells “One of the best planar sourcebooks ever made”. As if that weren’t enough, he also deems Shadow Planes & Pocket Worlds: A Dark Roads and Golden Hells Supplement “a stellar supplement at an
Endzeitgeist Reviews Open Design’s New Planar Releases Read More »
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