The Mithral Dragon has its origins in Kobold Quarterly issue #4 and first appeared for D&D 3.5 back in 2007, designed by Mike McArtor. The Pathfinder RPG version presented here is a bonus age category that we couldn’t quite fit into the book, but it’s just as stunning and impressive as the version in the […]
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Dragons are the most iconic creatures in fantasy RPGs, for obvious reasons. They ought to be among the most impressive and frightening, too, but that isn’t always the case. It’s not because dragons don’t have the chops; on a stat-by-stat basis, your average dragon is terrifying. Yet player characters bring them down with shocking regularity.
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Attention, friends of the kobolds and fellow kobolds! Kobold Quarterly is one of the seven contenders listed today for the RPG Site of the Year contest. If you love Your Whispering Homunculus, Real Steel, Howling Tower, Thppgrg, and all of our other fine and fun offerings, you can go vote for us! Just follow the
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Our kobold mascot Jiro left this note on Wolfgang’s desk this morning: dear boss, I was reading a bunch of adventures you know the classic stuff like vault of the drow and tomb of horrors and rise of the runelords and i was thinking it would be great if we had something like that for
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A character who favors ranged attacks has many ways to master the bow, and the schools presented in this article series give you some interesting options to round out your player character. This week, we present another school of archery styles by Rich Redman. The first, second, and third parts are available, too. Order of the Warbow
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Have you ever had a chase scene in your favorite tabletop RPG? Was it fun and exciting? I didn’t think so. Chase scenes are a staple in adventure films, but RPG rules seldom tackle them, at least not well. Long-distance chases aren’t much of a problem. These are situations like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
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A character who favors ranged attacks has many ways to master the bow, and the schools presented in this article series give you some interesting options to round out your player character. This week, we present another school of archery styles by Rich Redman. The first and second parts are available, too. Eldritch Arrow Style
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Once upon a time, random encounters were standard fare in roleplaying games. Somewhere along the way, they fell out of fashion. Players, DMs, and game designers decided that random encounters embodied the worst of lazy DMing. They were indiscriminate party killers. Most of all, they were dumped because they were irrelevant to the ongoing story.
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Over the past several days, we’ve been posting the entries we received for the Seize the Tin Crown contest. These will each be only lightly proofread so that you, our voting public, have a chance to judge them based on your own criteria. After we post the last of the entries, we’ll be calling for
Seize the Tin Crown Entry: Zombie Blight Read More »
Journeys are part of the myths we try to capture in RPGs. From the Odyssey and Anabasis of the Greeks, to Huck and Jim’s trip down the Mississippi, to films such as The Hidden Fortress and Saving Private Ryan, journeys serve as both vehicles for adventure and as metaphors for the heroes’ movement toward self-discovery.
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Over the past several days, we’ve been posting the entries we received for the Seize the Tin Crown contest. These will each be only lightly proofread so that you, our voting public, have a chance to judge them based on your own criteria. After we post the last of the entries, we’ll be calling for
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Over the past several days, we’ve been posting the entries we received for the Seize the Tin Crown contest. These will each be only lightly proofread so that you, our voting public, have a chance to judge them based on your own criteria. After we post the last of the entries, we’ll be calling for
Seize the Tin Crown Entry: The Clockwork Stalker Read More »
Over the past several days, we’ve been posting the entries we received for the Seize the Tin Crown contest. These will each be only lightly proofread so that you, our voting public, have a chance to judge them based on your own criteria. After we post the last of the entries, we’ll be calling for
Seize the Tin Crown Entry: Saint Vadim, the Hell-Tried Read More »
In the next several days, we’ll be posting the entries we received for the Seize the Tin Crown contest. These will each be only lightly proofread so that you, our voting public, have a chance to judge them based on your own criteria. After we post the last of the entries, we’ll be calling for
Seize the Tin Crown Entry: Full Kobold Steam Ahead Read More »
In the next several days, we’ll be posting the entries we received for the Seize the Tin Crown contest. These will each be only lightly proofread so that you, our voting public, have a chance to judge them based on your own criteria. After we post the last of the entries, we’ll be calling for
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It’s taken as gospel by many fantasy roleplayers that in the bad old days, all campaigns were about dungeons. Characters left the dungeon and returned to town only for healing and to replenish supplies. They might have a few random encounters between the town and the dungeon, but those were nothing more than distractions from
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