I’m happy to announce that Tales of the Old Margreve has reached the commissioning goal and is moving into design! The project has strong direction from the supremely talented design duo of Tim and Eileen Connors—and the raw horsepower of a hundred sharp and crafty GMs and designers, including RPG Superstar semi-finalist Jim Groves and […]
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The Tales of the Old Margreve continues to gather patrons very quickly, and the brainstorms are gathering both amazing spells and monsters—plus a certain amount of silly fun. Frankly, there are so many rich forest myths and legends here that we can afford to choose just the very best, and develop them for both playability
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Some projects need time to grow slowly and flower into a display over months or years. Tales of the Old Margreve is not one of them; it has rocketed along toward a full commission status faster than any other project to date. While the project is not yet at a green light status, it is
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As the Open Design experiment has expanded and won critical and publishing success, a few people have clearly shown just how great collaborative adventure design can be. Tim and Eileen Connors are right at the top of the list, and I’m happy to announce that Open Design is commissioning a project that they will lead:
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Open Design’s own 4th Edition patronage project, Courts of the Shadow Fey, is all up in your stuff, stealing your babies and snorting your finest dreams. Because that’s just what fey do. Fey Politics The design for Courts of the Shadow Fey has a twist at its heart, like a lover’s betrayal. It begins with
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Open Design’s very first Call of Cthulhu patronage project, The Red Eye of Azathoth, is shredding minds like you wouldn’t believe. Mighty Azathoth Stirs Azathoth, the blind idiot god, slumbering as he has for eons untold in the darkness between the stars, has been disturbed. Should he awaken and open just one of his uncaring red
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The From Shore to Sea patronage project is smack dab in the middle of its second phase with the brainstorming sessions of Sunken Empires going strong and patron submissions pouring in! Right now, patrons are designing the creatures that lurk both above and below the waves and the bleached, ancient spires and sunken ruins of
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As the third project in a series of public updates on Open Design’s current batch of patronage projects, KQ.com presents Courts of the Shadow Fey, Open Design’s 4th Edition project. Duelists and Team Players Back in the days when I was working at TSR in Lake Geneva, I played a wide range of lunchtime board games
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As the second project in a series of public updates on Open Design’s current batch of patronage projects, KQ.com presents The Red Eye of Azathoth, Open Design’s first Call of Cthulhu project. The Harbinger Star Nears The Red Eye of Azathoth project is now in full swing. The first adventure (of five) in this anthology
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For those curious about Open Design’s current batch of patronage projects, KQ.com is releasing a series of public updates to track their progress. First of these, the Open Design/Paizo Publishing joint project From Shore to Sea, is in high gear. Into the Waves Over the last 2 months, patrons have worked closely with author Brandon
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From the very beginning of the order, the Servants have been preparing for the end of the world, putting contingencies into place in the event that the 5 blackest rites mentioned in the Codex of the Harbinger Star ever come to pass. Several nearly complete reproductions of the Codex exist in the Servants’ vaults for
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Part One : A History of Service For over 3,000 years, they have waited patiently in the shadows, acting swiftly and silently when needed to thwart man’s destruction at the hands of unknowable horrors. They are the Servants of Man, a clandestine order zealously obsessed with preventing occult forces from bringing about the enslavement or
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Every kingdom has its royal guards: stoic souls with vigilant eyes, strength of arm, and unmatched loyalty. The Courts of the Shadow Fey are no different. That final quality — loyalty — has forced the black-hearted nobles of the court to seek guardians from unorthodox sources. Knowing no living shadow fey could be trusted to
Monday Monster: Deathshade Wisp
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I tell ya, boys, we’ve fished up and down this coast for years and never seen anything like ’em. We’d found what was left of Ol’ Patch and his crew — washed up on the shore there, all picked apart to bones and gristle. It was bad enough seeing ’em like that, and worse when
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We’re happy to say the official Paizo adventure From Shore to Sea and the related Sunken Empires sourcebook have met their commission, and the design is moving forward. It’s still possible to sign up as a patron; if you do, you’ll see the first round of feedback from Paizo editors today.
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Open Design has agreed to design an official adventure for the Paizo campaign setting of Golarion. The adventure will be called From Shore to Sea and will describe an ancient set of ruins off the Cheliax coast. The project’s lead designer is Brandon Hodge, whose work on Halls of the Mountain King and strong pitch
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