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AAAHHH-AHHHH-AH! AAAHHH-AHHHH-AH! <ahem> Has anyone seen my viking helmet? I seem to be looking for new employment... ;)
Just 9 hours to get $894-- and then "Freeing Nethus" becomes a standalone adventure, those pages become new adventures in the anthology and it's crazy romps across Midgard for everyone! :D --
Just 25 hours to go, and we're at $22,115! Only $2885, and "Freeing Nethus" becomes a stand-alone adventure, adding two more to main anthology! You'll be swimming in the loot, but only if you sign up now. By comparison, Journeys into the West is about to complete turnover to the editor and then finish the bonus materials, drawing on input from the patrons! These projects provide months of interaction, discussion, and learning opportunities. What are you waiting for? Come tell some Tales! --
Just a bump to remind you all that this contest closes in 3 days! Get your monsters in and ready to rumble for the title of "King of the Monsters!" --
(Note to self: Next contest offers a sceptre or wand or something. Too many crowns!) But kobolds have a tradition of a ridiculous number of kings, we *have* to stick to crowns! :D --
I'd tell you about the new Open Design Patron Project: Midgard Tales for Pathfinder, but it looks like you probably already know! We're barely 36 hours into the campaign, and almost at 85% funded. Wait, you didn't know? Well, the good news is that you've got plenty of time to sign up. The better news? Keep reading... Midgard Tales will contain 13 new adventures for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, with new takes on classic RPG themes. This book will define the Midgard campaign setting the way legendary adventures such as Dragonlance did back in the day. Patrons will join lead designer Christina Stiles, assisted by Ben McFarland and Wolfgang Baur, to pitch and design 13 adventures for Pathfinder that will remake classic themes. Already they’re hearing from various designers who want in, with tales such as: • A dragon adventure set in the Northlands
Adventures to be remembered, adventures that won’t be "just another dungeon" -- Midgard Tales aims to encourage the best of new and existing adventure design talent, to give you adventures from levels 1 to 12 that your players never forget.
You've got just one day left to enter your magic-- put down those playtesting packages and give us a hit of your design mojo! --
Who will claim the crown of kobolds? Crafted of tin, it'll shine like a star if you win! We've got a Pathfinder contest for Midgard's Zobeck. Submit an entry detailing any one of the following: a monster, item, encounter, spells, feats, character theme, traps, hazards, powers—things well-suited to the setting. You've got 800 words to put your flourish on the Jewel of the Argent, Zobeck, the Clockwork City! What's the deadline? Your entry needs to be sent to the Seize the Tin Crown Contest at miranda(at)koboldquarterly(dot)com no later than March 9, 2012, by noon PST. (That’s about three weeks from now!) We've got your all the rules and details after the jump... --
Can you believe it? Our kobold traps are still disabled from the gnome raid, which means you can just waltz into our vaults and make off with a FREE issue of Kobold Quarterly #14. (If you don’t waltz, you can tango into our vaults. The Charleston is also acceptable.) Go to the Kobold Store, add issue #14 to your cart, and enter the coupon code KoboldWelcome at checkout to snatch a PDF copy of your own. It’s our big Gen Con 2010 issue, with nearly 100 pages of articles by Ed Greenwood, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Adam Daigle, Michael Furlanetto, John Baichtal, Jeff Tidball, Tim and Eileen Connors, John Wick and many others—plus an interview with Rob Heinsoo. While you’re there, you might also want to get a copy of the new issue, Kobold Quarterly #20. Heck, you might even want to subscribe. Remember, the vault closes again on February 14, so act soon! --
Today, the brand new expanded edition of the Zobeck Gazetteer is out for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game! This invaluable reference for the Free City includes material collected from dozens of sources as well as all-new content that you’ve never seen before. Originally created by Wolfgang Baur for his own home D&D campaign and built out over years of adventures, sourcebooks and Kobold Quarterly articles, Zobeck is an exotic and powerful trade city at the crossroads of the Midgard campaign setting. Stern griffon riders keep watch atop its towers, kobolds scuttle in the shadows, and long-forgotten sorcerous clockwork experiments stir to life in bricked-up cellars. The new Zobeck Gazetteer includes: • New Clockwork and Lust cleric domains for Pathfinder RPG
Illustrated with beautiful city maps by Sean Macdonald, the gazetteer format provides just enough detail to incorporate Zobeck into any fantasy campaign without being overwhelming. Come to the city at the crossroads and try your luck! You can pick up a copy here or at the Kobold Store. --
Only 8 hours to go, and right now, if you join us before we cast off, you'll load up on the riches of author's lost hours-- A 16-page standalone mini-adventure called "The Edge of the World" as part of this project. Yep, a voyage right to the edge of the map, and PCs can explore all the strange things that happen there. This is in addition to all the adventures, spells, islands, monsters, and NPCs already included. If you haven't signed up for Journeys to the West and you want this all-new adventure, plus
If you have signed up, thank you, and the design starts today. This will be the truly last last-call, because we're just not sure there's any more awesomeness we can offer. Do not delay: the Kickstarter ends today, Sunday, at midnight Pacific time! --
Oh, we've broken the barrier and it looks like all backers will see a 16-page standalone adventure from Wolfgang, too! We'll be rolling in loot! Loot, I say! Errr, carry on! (but sign up!)
It's at 10K+ with goodies planned for 11K and 12.5K. Good stuff is on the horizon and with six days to go, there's a very good chance we're going to see it! Do you want in on this? Or do you want to kick yourself six months from now? Sign on and sail into the West with us!
The project is just $40 from becoming 128 pages of Here-there-be-Dragons style goodness. The forums are taking shape in the electron clouds of the Kobold Warren, hammered into place by Wolfgang, and Christina is chained to a keyboard...err, feverishly and enthusiastically crafting the next preview post. This is the community that brought you Sunken Empires, Tales of the Old Margreve, Northlands, and Streets of Zobeck. You can be sure that any voyage in to the unknown is going to be a voyage done with style!* *note:
Well, at least a voyage with maps by Jonathan Roberts! But definitely style, too. ;) --
Is there any way to delete that flood of spam, O News Minion? I did! I did delete them! It happens sometimes, the gears fly loose, and the clockwork crossbow fires into the darkness, emptying the whole magazine! I've deleted the extraneous posts, now they just need to be cleared. :/ (You can hide them using the "zero with a line through it" symbol all the way on the right of the thread listing in the forum overview, though.) --
Journeys to the West: Fantastic Voyages in the Western Ocean Designer: Christina Stiles (Unhallowed Halls, The Village of Briarton, Faery's Tale)
A new six-adventure anthology is underway from Open Design! 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 Midgard campaign setting’s Western Ocean. Discover the lush paradise known as the Isle of Morphoi, where the goddess of Memory seeks lost secrets through her network of cunning lamias and the shapeshifting morphoi. Encounter lost civilizations and their hidden colonies; explore mysterious fog-shrouded islands populated by sharp-toothed, scarred natives; battle epic leviathans of the deep that are rumored to crush villages or swallow whole ships; and gain priceless and unusual treasures! Backers of Journeys to the West will join lead designer Christina Stiles to: * Populate and describe the city of Barsella, gateway to the Wine Dark Sea: its high towers and exotic markets flush with strange salvage pulled from sunken ruins and looted from cryptic derelicts. * Delve into the mysteries of the Isle of Morphoi and the cults of Mnemosyne, whose sorcerer-priestesses wield water and ley-line magic against adventurers, and swiftly leap from port to port as they engineer far-ranging conspiracies in smoky taverns and opulent throne rooms. * Take to the waves with new ship plans, and master the dangers of the unknown with new traits, feats, spells, incantations, and gear.
* Create haunted, treasure-laden ruins to test the mettle and sanity of fortune-seeking adventurers Journeys to the West is designed for maximum use in any nautical or edge-of-civilization Pathfinder Roleplaying Game campaign. Backers will participate in brainstorming sessions, and some may add feats, spells, traits, and gear to the book as patron designers. Backers at the Captain level and above may pitch seven islands, six adventures, eight monsters, and eight pirate lords. Their successful pitches will turn into fully credited design in the Open Design style. Rally your crew, and hoist the sails! Fantastic voyages await! You can sign up for it on Kickstarter-- here! And check out the addition options, depending on how we hit our funding marks! --
The Oracle couldn't have foreseen its 5-star review today! Thanks for taking the time to review it, Megan! -Kobold Quarterly News Minion
Stefen Styrsky and Wolfgang Baur have been busy, deep in the kobold warrens-- laboring to bring you a series certain put a little more roller in your holy, a little more "halla" in your "julah!" What, pray tell, is it? The Divine Favor series, of course! There's the Cleric, the Paladin, the Oracle, and the
Already as well-received as a tent revival, the Paladin's gotten 5 stars while the Druid's picked up a 4-star review. What are you waiting for? Put some wisdom in your playstyle and check these out! -The Kobold Quarterly News Minion!
@Wolfgang: In the kobold shop it says Standard Patron ($24.95) but when I add it to the card it costs $29.95. Which is it now? And how far to complete funding are you? It's going to be $29.95. This one has a greenlight, folks, we're go for the road to hell with Dan Voyce, Colin McComb and the patrons. It's time to get extraplanar! --
Darkjoy returns to KQ with more traps and haunts for your game, including a Lawful Good haunt-- what's not to love? -Kobold Quarterly's News Minion
Dark Roads and Golden Hells is a chance to explore the outer planes of Midgard in mind-expanding style: Inspired by Vance’s Dying Earth, Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber; by the Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone, by Lovecraft’s eldritch abominations and Moorcock’s Eternal Champion, by just about everything written by China Mieville and Neil Gaiman – and of course by the baroquely stylish weirdness of Planescape and Beyond Countless Doorways, in which our own kobold king had no small part. Rather than presenting a whole new cosmology, we’ll be concentrating on themes, flavorful locations, and special rules that can be integrated into any planar campaign, whether your PCs are occasional wide-eyed visitors from the prime material or hardened planar cynics supping with devils in a gothic planar crossroads. It doesn’t matter if your multiverse is shaped like a wheel, a spindle, or a million shifting spheres – We promise you’ll find a cornucopia of weird and wonderful locations, feats, spells, monsters, and adventures to insert into your campaign. There’s a lot for the fertile, fevered minds of patrons to do here!
We’ll also be presenting a dozen or more fully developed locations tied to the new Midgard campaign setting and the Free City of Zobeck: The homes of prominent gods and devils, domains of creatures like the shadow fey, and the afterlife of ghouls and kobolds. Pitched, voted for, and written by patrons, these gazetteers will provide everything you need to run adventures: history and geography, major NPCs, adventure seeds and special rules, and notes on how the PCs’ actions can impact and change them — ensuring they stay fresh and exciting for many return visits. You can sign up for the Dark Roads and Golden Hells patron project here! Join the Dark Roads and Golden Hells project as a patron today. But remember: “You will not return unchanged.” -Kobold Quarterly's News Minion.
Who doesn’t want to be a master swordsman and a powerful mage at the same time? With the magus you can do exactly that – and players have been thrilled with the newest Pathfinder RPG class from Paizo’s Ultimate Magic.
Advanced Feats: Might of the Magus breaks down the class to examine its strengths and weaknesses, and then details 30 new feats of sword and sorcery. Throw a shocking hammer with Ranged Spellstrike, steal magical energies with Arcana Thief, and catch your opponents off guard with Unbalancing Parry. Pick yours up today! -Kobold Quarterly's News Minion
Here's the link for folks who want to pick this up here at Paizo! -Kobold Quarterly News Minion
With a thread title that long, you'd think I'd said it all-- but not by a longshot. Alleys of Zobeck is a 17-page supplement chock full of extras like five new feats, four NPCs, three monsters, two locales and one mini-adventure stuffed in a loot bag conveniently shaped like a PDF file! Sure, you could adventure without dire weasel stats, clockwork hands, or memory-stealing incantations, by why would you want to be denied the excitement of racing down the cobblestones in Blackeye's carriage? Let me answer that question for you-- you don't! Don't pass up this great deal of adventure and recurring characters coated with new crunch for fans of the Streets of Zobeck adventure anthology—a great introduction to urban adventures suitable for play anywhere! Pick it up* for just $2.95, and let us know what you think! -Kobold Quarterly News Minion
*: Coming soon to the Paizo store. Seriously. Soon. Like, probably when people wake up. I'm not kidding you, it'll be supplement-riffic. In the meantime, we're offering you this link to the Kobold store.
Sometimes you need a little help fighting monsters, especially when one or more have completely wiped out your stalwart band of adventurers—several times. Kobolds, of course, recognize the necessity for adding a little firepower to the group when that sort of thing happens. To assist all those hapless, soon-to-be-dead-meat adventurers out there, Kobold Quarterly is starting a new contest, the Relics of Power contest! This time around our focus is on artifacts. We want you, our fans, to design some amazingly useful and interesting artifacts that adventurers can use to vanquish all those nasty villains and powerful monsters that keep pestering them. Each artifact will be evaluated by a panel of industry professionals and by the fans. And, yes, fame and prizes play a part in this. So, what do you need to do? First, read all the stuff below, then start designing! Here’s how it works: To enter this contest, your artifact submission MUST…
Who's judging?
Minor and major artifacts are welcome! And they don’t necessarily have to be completely combat-oriented—have fun with them. Find all the extra details and other rules here, at Koboldquarterly.com. -The Kobold Quarterly News Minion.
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