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The World is Ready. Are You?
Midgard is lost in an age of war: of dark wilderness, and lost empires sunk beneath the waves.
Only magic and the warmth of hope keeps lights aglow when dread things prowl, and priestly wardings tremble and bend before the fury of demonic rage.
In this dark time, new heroes must arise to claim the crowns of Midgard, and restore the jewels to her sca... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$49.99 $19.99
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The Essential Elements for Building a World
Roleplaying games and fantasy fiction are filled with rich and fascinating worlds: the Forgotten Realms, Glorantha, Narnia, R'lyeh, Middle-Earth, Barsoom, and so many more. It took startling leaps of imagination as well as careful thought and planning to create places like these: places that readers and players want to come back to again and again.... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$19.99 $12.99
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Kobold Quarterly is the scrappy little magazine of Open Design, a tiny journal that covers the world's premiere roleplaying game and the world's best fantasy adventures.
Each issue is written by the industry's best, including many well-known RPG designers from Ed Greenwood to Wolfgang Baur. Each features full-color art by fantasy artists new and familiar.
Kobold Quar... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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Can Kobold Count?
It might seem that a quarterly would ship four issues a year, but no! Kobold Quarterly ships its first Annual with this issue, which includes:
The Truth about Tieflings by their creator, David "Zeb" Cook
New Blood Magic
Codes of Conduct for Paladins
Fortunetelling in Zobeck
...and an interview with designer Monte Cook!... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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Scales, claws, and elemental dragon magic!
From the coin swarm to the wyvern's sting, this is an astonishing collection of feats, spells, and exotic animals and dragon magic for Pathfinder RPG--ready to customize any PC from the exotic lands of the dragon bazaars!
The Dragon Empire region is the exotic land of a conquering Sultana, a land of ele... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$9.99 $4.99
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Kobold Quarterlyis the scrappy little magazine of Open Design, a tiny journal that covers the world's premiere roleplaying game from the gamer's perspective.
The second issue includes articles by Ed Greenwood, Nicolas Logue, Skip Williams, Wolfgang Baur, and Jeff Grubb, among others. It features full-color art by fantasy artists new and familiar.
Kobold Quarterly gives yo... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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Award-winning tales of adventure chosen by Open Design patrons!
A city of wonders, and a city of corruption and despair. Zobeck is home to gypsies, kobolds, powerful guilds and seductive devils, a crossroads city where the people of all corners of the compass come to barter, cheat, and deal.
Tales of Zobeck features eight adventures for OGL/3E gaming, inclu... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$19.99
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Got Questions About RPG Design? Wolfgang Baur, Monte Cook, Ed Greenwood, Michael Stackpole, and other industry veterans have the answers you asked for...and the advice you need!
Get ready to create great new adventures, monsters and magic for your RPG campaign! The Complete Kobold Guide to Game Design offers 240 pages of in-depth essays on what makes RP... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$39.99 $19.99
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Friends or Foes? A Game of Shifting Dangers
The Shadow Fey are here, and they’ve turned the city upside down. Now their ambassador demands that the player characters explain themselves, for interfering in a perfectly legitimate assassination!
So begins this fan-favorite adventure from award-winning designers Wolfgang Baur and Ben McFarland that takes adventurers from Midgard&rsqu... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$24.99 $12.99
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Visit the heights of the Ironcrag Mountains, where dwarves master rune magic, forge powerful new magic, and keep dark secrets in fraternal societies.
More than taciturn miners and miserly smiths, the dwarves of Zobeck have a richly varied culture that includes slavers, secretive orders, and magical blades containing the souls of the dead.
The Dwarves of the Ironcrags Gazetteer de... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$15.95 $7.99
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Monsters and Mayhem!
Everyone loves the Ecology articles in Kobold Quarterly magazine; they're a look at things from the monstrous side of the fence, with nasty DM tricks and great story elements to inspire DMs to greatness. But we can only publish one in each issue.... Until now.
KOBOLD Ecologies is a massive book of monster love. It heaps on a pile of new ... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$9.99
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Game Design Secrets You Need to Know!The practical side of success as a game designer is revealed in these dozen essays by two professionals, including
How to pitch your work
How to survive a killer deadline,
How to make an impression with magic items
How to set up a mystery.
Learn what makes a good playtest,
What makes a design matter to a wide audience,
And many more!
<>... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$18.99 $9.99
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Marster the art of game design! The Kobold Guide to Game Design Volume III: Tools &Techniques goes even deeper into the territory of professional design with a dozen essays by an all-star lineup of industry veterans including:
Award-winning designer and publisher Wolfgang Baur
3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons designer Monte Cook
4th Edition Dungeons... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$18.95 $14.95
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Some of you may be familiar with the time-honored tradition of "going to 11." Well, KQ is right there with its latest issue. Kobold Quarterly #11 is loaded with things that go right up to the edge, and then one more.
Don't believe us? Here's a sampling of the just-a-little-more philosophy at work:
1) An awesome Ecology of the Vampire.... 2) ....plus a ... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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The Winter issue of Kobold Quarterly is 50% bigger than last issue, with stunning cover art by Cris Griffin.
With all that extra room, there are a lot more articles as well, including:
an interview with Ed Greenwood that covers novels, sex, and gaming
"The Ecology of the Lich" by Richard Pett
"Hardboiled Adventure" by Keith Baker
"Star ... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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The latest Kobold Quarterly features the Ecology of the Cloaker, a mithral dragon, and an angel who has literally been through hell. Just for starters.
There's also new gnomes, worthwhile feats for fighters, the gangs of Zobeck, a new method of monster generation, Lessons from Arabia, drunken fey, and the popular Ask the Kobold rules advice from the sage S... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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Exclusive 4th Edition Interview<o:p></o:p>
We asked the designers of the 4th Edition Player’s Handbook for D&D a few pointed questions—and got the inside scoop! This issue’s interview covers design goals, favorite games, and upcoming releases, plus their suggestions for character conversion from 3rd Edition!
Plus:
the... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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The Fall issue of Kobold Quarterly features horror, roguery, and insanity, plus a 4th Edition-compatible D&D article.
Official PATHFINDER Monsters of Osirion
The black art of undead creation for D&D spellcasters,
An interview with Call of Cthulhu and Quake designer Sandy Petersen,
Gunpowder Magic
A Guide to Dwarven Airships
and a special section o... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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KOBOLD QUARTERLY Magazine #8
The mysteries of ink magic, the power of extradimensional monster,and the joy of bar brawls -- KQ8 has it all! Plus, this issue features articles on medieval medicine, an Ecology of the Golem, an indestructible new PC race, and we even provide dozens of warlord battle cries for the 4E gamers. Not to mention the interview with R.A. Salvatore, th... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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Kobold Quarterly #9 features an interview that unfortunately is sad and all-too-timely: the last interview with Dave Arneson. Also of interest:
Monte Cook launches a new column, Game Theories
We take a look at the classic bat-demon, Camazotz
Our first dual-stat 3E/4E article offers up the Maedar as a PC race
A reader request for a Kitsune race for ... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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The big 1-0! Double digits! Yes, Kobold Quarterly hits the big Roman numeral X with the Summer issue, which features:
Ed Greenwood's Dwarven Goddess
Exclusive: full Pathfinder RPG Shadowdancer class
Secrets of the Gelantinous Cube
Wicked Fantasy: Twisted Halflings
Ecology of the Hill Giant
Monte Cook's Game Theories
And rampant Elf Lust
This issue is packed wi... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $3.59
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The fiercest magazine in gaming delivers a complete hoard of articles for better gaming. The treasures this time include:
Ecology of the Froghemoth
4E Shadow Elves of the Winter Court
3 new Pathfinder RPG core classes, including a better monk
Enslaved elves and real ninjas
and 6 New Lords of the Abyss!
Plus all the greatness you've come to expect: DM advice from Monte Cook on g... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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Ah, Spring! The time when a GM's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love... and PC-devouring Shoggoths. Issue #13 of Kobold Quarterly is a heart-shaped box of RPG goodies that includes a mix of delicious fluff and satisfying crunch:
Sex and Romance in RPGs
The Astonishing Ecology of the Shoggoth
A New Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Base Class: the Arquebusier of Alkenstar
C... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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Our special Holiday issue is loaded with new items for players, and fiendish new ideas for DMs. This issue includes:
Traps for 4th Edition D&D and Pathfinder RPG
New mounted combat rules for 4th Edition D&D
3 new Druid variants for Pathfinder players
10 new weapons for fighters
Thief rigs for 4th Edition rogues
Ecology of the Giant Ant
Margaret Weis ... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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The super-sexy Winter 2011 issue is loaded with a high tide of Pathfinder RPG materials, plus the launch of the new Midgard campaign setting. The top-notch materials from the best KQ regulars include:
12 official Paizo magic items for Golarion
Harem Assassin feats and spells for Pathfinder RPG
Potion Miscibility rules for 4th Edition D&D
the Ecology of the Gearf... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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The kobold are feeling wicked! Kobold Quarterly issue #17 celebrates the villains, getting right into the meat of things with an article that introduces special arch-nemesis abilities for recurring villains and the PCs who hate them. As they clash again and again, these abilities gain more potent - ultimately legendary - power.
The issue also adapts several classic confidenc... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$5.99 $4.49
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Kobold Quarterly issue #18 is like a kobold beach party ice chest, but instead of being packed with gnome jerky, KQ #18 has:
Savants, cavaliers, beast masters and dragon hunters for Pathfinder RPG;
the official Divine Gifts talents for AGE System;
a minotaur ecology for 4th Edition D&D;
and 3 new adventures!
The Savant base class ... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$7.99 $4.49
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Magic shops and graveyard haunts, a new realm to explore and get-rich-quick schemes gone horribly wrong: This horn of kobold plenty is spilling over with what might be our most diverse assortment of articles ever. The full-bore 80 pages of KQ #19 include:
A sneak preview of Tian Xia, Paizo's brand-new setting for Pathfinder, and its arch-devil Lau Kiritsu
An interview with indie ... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$8.99 $4.49
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Kobold Quarterly issue #20 takes a look at archers, with an elven archer base class for Pathfinder RPG, a shadow fey hunting party on the prowl, and new arrows carrying acid, fog, and razor filaments.
KQ #20 also features Jeff Grubb on the lost elves of Midgard, a Q&A with designer Christina Stiles and a new Zobeck adventure—plus vile Derro ooze magic, planar allie... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$8.99 $4.49
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Kobold Quarterlyissue #21 takes on the theme of Divine Majesty, with a host of articles to take your campaign into the higher realms, or lower depths.
"The Shaman" introduces a new base class for Pathfinder RPG that gains powers and abilities by unlocking secrets about the natural and spirit worlds. "Daughters of Lilith" presents the ecology of the su... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$8.99 $4.49
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Kobold Quarterly's big summer issue is the most diverse ever, with articles for Pathfinder RPG, 4th Edition D&D, AGE System, Castles & Crusades, and 13th Age. Old school, new school, and everything in between — this issue's got it:
The archdevil Barbatos, gatekeeper of Golarion’s Hells
Dragonkin servitors of Midgard's Mharoti Empire for 4th Editi... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$8.99 $4.49
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Demons & Devils Black As Your Soul
Kobold Quarterly's fall 2012 issue is not for the faint of heart! Starting with the fearsome art featuring the Master of Demon Mountain on the cover, you will enter an issue packed full of devils and demons to give PCs pause. With a new playable lamia race lurking within, even players might be tempted to join the dark side. (Also the dark side has chocola... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$8.99 $5.99
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What Really Happens Out on Ghostlight Reef?
The scholar Balack Giolan has long been intrigued with the odd women working the Ghostlight Reef, who extract its dream coral and delve its depths. His own hardened mercenaries fear to explore the Reef, but these women bring back arcane treasures, including the ebonsrib squid-ink Balack wants.
He’s been spying on their leader to ga... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$9.99 $3.99
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Visit the Palace of Long-Lost Emperors, and Learn Their Secrets...
The Buried Palace is an dungeon adventure for the Pathfinder RPG, wherein the characters descend into a buried palace at the request of a Lord Marshall in search of a powerful magic item. In the process they find themselves embroiled in a growing confl ict between the Lord Marshall and his... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$9.99 $3.99
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Meet the Trollkin... And Drive Them Into the Sea!
The trollkin and their shaman have come to a village by the sea, stormed its walls, and taken all the villagers as slaves and property. They have eaten their way through the saltfish, devoured the herd of sheep, and might be planning to eat the PCs next. Then, one escaped villager begs strangers on the road for help... A... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$9.99 $3.99
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The Midgard Bestiary for the Pathfinder RPG is here, with more than 100 monsters and foes drawn from award-winning adventures and sourcebooks!
Between its covers lurk some of the greatest monsters that Kobold Press has unleashed on players over the last five years - ready to deploy in your Pathfinder RPG adventures. All are core fantasy creatures designed for easy adaptation to a homebr... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$24.99 $9.99
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Shadow Magic and Clockwork Kings
This 36-page collection of materials provides players with an overview of the central region of the Midgard Campaign Setting, with a wide range of new powers and options for any Pathfinder RPG campaign, including:
3 New PC races: the Kobolds, the Ghoulish Darakhul, and Gearforged
The Shadowsw... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$9.99 $4.99
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The inevitables are at least as strange as the slaad. Monster Chronicles: the Inevitable takes the tick-tock guardians of order and shows you how to deploy them in an OGL or Pathfinder game. With insight into what makes the inevitable work (and not work), this Monster Chronicles installment is both celestial and totally practical.
The Monster Chron... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$2.99
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The Monsters of Sin epitomize the very worst of our natures, and prey on others’ weaknesses. Designed for GMs, this first book in the Monsters of Sin series for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is devoted to Avarice: the insatiable lust for wealth. The monsters in this book are powerfully motivated by wealth, or they tempt player characters to make poor choices in the name of ... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$2.99
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Monsters of Sin epitomize the very worst of our natures—and prey on others’ weaknesses.
This second book in the Monsters of Sin series for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is devoted to Envy, the desire for what someone else has – whatever that someone has! It includes:
The Bone Swarm, mindlessly destroying the object of its desi... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$2.99
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Monsters of Sin epitomize the very worst of our natures—and they prey on others’ weaknesses. This third book in the Monsters of Sin series for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is devoted to Gluttony, the irresistable desire for pleasures of all sorts, so there’s bound to be one to tempt any character.
It includes:
The Bottomless Pit... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$2.99
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Monsters of Sinepitomize the very worst of our natures—and they prey on others’ weaknesses. This fourth book in the Monsters of Sin series for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is devoted to Lust, desire that overrules all thoughts, emotions, and primal drives, a sin that can entice any character if played just right.
It includ... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$2.99
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Monsters of Sin epitomize the very worst of our natures—and they prey on others’ weaknesses. This fifth book in the Monsters of Sinseries for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is devoted to Pride, the unshakeable belief in your own superiority, a sin that festers inside many player characters as their adventures become legend. It includ... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$2.99
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Monsters of Sin epitomize the very worst of our natures—and they prey on others’ weaknesses. This sixth book in the Monsters of Sin series for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is devoted to Sloth, the willingness to let things get worse because improving them would take too much effort and discomfort. This sin can turn the most dynamic of adventur... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$2.99
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This seventh and final book in the Monsters of Sin series for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is devoted to Wrath, the impulse to unrestrained destruction; an easy sin for someone who lives by the sword to fall victim to. It includes:
• The Hulking Whelp, a friendly beast who can become a deadly monster without notice – and it knows it.&bu... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$2.99
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Lethal with Blade and Blast!
For years, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game fans have lamented the absence of an 'arcane paladin' type of class – one with full base attack bonus, limited spell access (to arcane spells instead of divine) and a small set of interesting, flavorful special abilities. Lament no longer! The Expanded Battle Scion is just such a class! Designer Marc Radle builds on his ... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$3.99
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Aim for the Heart
Combine brutal archery skills with a classic elven heritage using the expanded elven archer class! This in-depth book provides all the class skills, archetypes, spells, and equipment necessary to turn your elven archer into an enemy-hunting, bull’s eye-striking legend. Want a twist on the concept? Roll up a halfling slingmaster, a dwarven crossbowyer, or a mystic archer... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$4.99
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The Spontaneous Druid
It's odd that the mystic druid must prepare spells ahead of time--so now he doesn't! The shaman is a nature and spirit-focussed spontaneous caster, with great new abilities and an animal spirit guide.
Welcome to the Expanded Shaman, a base class for the Pathfinder RPG that was first presented in Kobold Quarte... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$3.99
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Aragorn Didn’t Cast Spells
Just because some designer thought rangers should be spell-slingers doesn’t make it right! With the Expanded Spell-Less Ranger, you can now play an authentic ranger without spells, but with great new abilities.
Welcome to the Expanded Spell-Less Ranger, a base class for the Pathfinder RPG that was first presented in Kobold Quarterly ... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$3.99
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Druids vs. Aliens: Fight!
When a mysterious object falls from the night sky, apprentice druid Alosar Emanli stands alone as evil creatures from the stars invade his forest. Can he overcome the many dangers that lurk in the woods and defeat the alien brood? That’s up to you, the choices you make, and the luck of the die…
This stand-alone Party of Oneadv... [click here for more] |
Open Design |
$2.99
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