Maurice de Mare, trapsmith and author of the traps and adventure you’ll find in the Trapsmith book by Kobold Press, has taken several minutes of his time to answer a few questions for us! Come see what he has to say about designing traps, playtesting the adventure, and Paizo’s RPG Superstar. You’ve been a long-time […]
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A top-quality collection of DRM-free Pathfinder ebooks from Kobold Press — pay what you want and support charity! The Bundle of Zobeck offers an outstanding collection of Kobold Press Pathfinder ebooks — characters, locations, magic, and adventures. For one price you set yourself, you can get the complete collection — over 500 pages of DRM-free
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Master Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus presents only the finest in British gaming. Indeed, you are not likely to find a more comprehensive assortment of miscellany anywhere. (So much more than just another bloke in a dress.) When the Bough Breaks “For the final time, come down off your perch and sit.” “But, master, the cat’s boils
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“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” —Edgar Allan Poe About a year ago, I started a Kingmaker campaign for Pathfinder. Without spoiling much, there’s a location in that Adventure Path that begs for a homebrew dungeon themed around the Dark Tapestry. I drew up a map,
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That’s right! It’s time to vote for the 2013 ENnie Awards, and we want to celebrate a few nominations of our own here on the Kobold Press blog. If you haven’t already done so, please share some small but fierce congratulations to those who worked on the following products, which we’ve organized by ENnies category
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Author’s Note: Starting with this entry, I will be creating my monsters using the Pathfinder system rather than Dungeons & Dragons, 4th Edition. The Pathfinder stats for the first monster in the desert monsters series, the blood snake, can be found at the end of this article, and its story-oriented text is in the original
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Sometimes we just do not have the time or ability to write up a detailed background but want something to guide us in roleplaying situations. For those times, writing down three short, concise statements on a note card will give you something you can use. This method takes only as long as you need to
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“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.” –Robert Frost Last week, I tried to test the interest in an encounter using the two tapestry templates I presented. While the
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The six talismans monk, an archetype for the monk class detailed in New Paths #5: The Expanded Monk and Ninja, introduced a monk that utilizes ki-infused paper talismans in combat to damage, bind, or seal away opponents. These feats present new options for the six talismans monk, broadening the possible application of paper talismans.
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Thanks to all the backers out there, the Deep Magic Kickstarter closed with the following stats: 1,927 backers $126,031 pledged of $10,000 goal That is, frankly, amazing. And wonderful. We have so much gratitude for each and every backer out there, and we hope that you all had fun being part of the process. Even
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“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.” —Aristotle Last week, I wrote a template for this site I wish I could redact or recant. For those fortunate enough to have missed it: Do not click on this link. I was wrong to discuss the “fiction” of H.P. Lovecraft or its impact
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Back on June 10th, the Deep Magic Kickstarter began its interesting and rather spectacular adventure into the realms of Pathfinder magic. As of this writing, it’s nearly at 1,000 percent of its original funding goal. That means that this is going to happen—this project is already funded. And it’s going to happen BIG because of
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After many years of research, the kobolds are ready to share some of their most treasured secrets: their traps and a set of trapsmithing rules, as discovered by expert trapsmith Maurice de Mare! Traps make your game better and add a sting of surprise to any encounter. The Trapsmith sourcebook provides you with more than
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We started the first of our four weeks of Midgard Summer by running The Forgotten King’s Tomb using the kobold pregens. The five players who signed up were very excited at the chance to play kobolds. One even emailed me off the list to make sure he had the summoner. As the game went
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” –Friedrich Nietzsche Inspiration can be drawn from many places. In fantasy, Tolkien gets all the press, but I’ve always had a thing
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With their punishing climate and near-total lack of precious water, deserts are one of the most hostile environments in existence. Those who spend enough time among the desert sands know that some monsters can thrive even in these hellish wastes. Such creatures are feared and respected by wise adventurers, for they are invariably predatory and
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