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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 chocolate, as we learn in the adventure “Devil’s Food.”)
The dark aristocratic glory of Dispater, First King of the Infernal City, by Wes Schneider
The Vile Black Book, a grimoire written by Asmodeus himself, with five new diabolical spells, by Ed Greenwood
“The Urge to Evolve”, a new Pathfinder Society Quest by Adam Daigle
Mechuiti, Midgard’s demon lord of apes and cannibals, with new spells, monsters and adventure hooks
“Devil’s Food”, an adventure among Midgard’s diabolical gnomes
GM tips from Steve Winter on creating an atmosphere of horror at the table
KQ #23 also features inks and poisons from Midgard’s Seven Cities, worldbuilding with Monte Cook, a lamia PC race, plus devil-smiting, soul-selling, and much more vileness as black as a derro's soul.
The full table of contents is:
Cover: Midgard’s Master of Demon Mountain by Emile Denis
Dispater by Wes Schneider - Pathfinder RPG
Slithering in Moonlight by Marc Radle - Pathfinder RPG
Pages From Asmodeus by Ed Greenwood - Pathfinder RPG
Mechuiti by Adam Roy - Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
Gauntlet Witch by Morgan Boehringer and Jim Wettstein - Pathfinder RPG
Selling your Soul by Rodrigo Garcia Carmona - AGE System
A Few Suggestions by James Thomas - Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, D&D 3.5, OSR
The Devil Smiter by Peter von Bleichert – D&D 3.5
Simplifying Sunder by R.C. Higgins - Pathfinder RPG
The Fruits of Friula by Christina Stiles - Pathfinder RPG
Monk of the Glorious Endeavor by Matt Blackie - Pathfinder RPG
Devil’s Food by Michael Lane - Pathfinder RPG
Crossroads Crowned by Terry Maranda & Eric Hindley - Pathfinder RPG
Pathfinder Society Quest: The Urge to Evolve by Adam Daigle - Pathfinder RPG
Living Gods for 13th Age by Ash Law – 13th Age
Different Kinds of World Building by Monte Cook
Real Scares by Steve Winter
Ask the Kobold by Skip Williams
Sign of the White Bat by Wolfgang Baur
d20 Monkey by Brian Patterson
Bolt & Quiver by Stan!
10'x 10' Toon by Stan!
Grab your copy today!
The adventure The Urge to Evolve is sanctioned for use in Pathfinder Society Organized Play. Its Chronicle Sheet and additional rules for running this module are a free download (82 KB zip/PDF).
Awesome. Is the PC race emulating "lion" lamias or "snake" lamias?
Interesting question ...
We probably should not reveal specific details until the issue comes out. Let's just say that the lamia have a word for those bizarre half-lion creatures - gesh’ vek ( which means 'false lamia')
Mechuitl, Cannibal Demon Lord, and ecology of dragonkin. Are these articles still the magazine?
I certainly want you to preorder the issue, so I'll spill some beans of the items listed on the Devil/Demon issue's cover).
Mechuiti (the Cannibal Demon) and his demon apes and the cannibal behtu are certainly in the issue--they are somewhat of a preview of Journeys to the West material, and Mechuiti's island is described in the [i[Pirates of the Western Ocean[/i] supplement for Journeys. Wes Schneider has a great devil article in this issue you won't want to miss (he had one in the previous issue, as well), and Adam Daigle has a wonderful Pathfinder piece in the issue. We've got Ed Greenwood with an article about a book of Asmodeus. I've added some poisons and magical inks to Midgard from Friula (one of my favorite areas of the setting). Marc Radle has an article on the lamia. Steve Winter talks about terrifying your players.
We've got first articles from Morgan Boehringer and Matt Blackie on new archetypes: the gauntlet witch and a weapon-specialist monk. And, there's a look at the new Earthdawn for Pathfinder. I'm forgetting some stuff for sure.
It's really a jam-packed issue of goodies, and I absolutely loved working on it. Preorder a good jolt of evil for your campaign today!
Wow, the Simplified Sundering article for PFRPG is a great trick!
I’ve already printed that sucker out and put it in my DM notebook.
E D I T - That's REALLY embarrassing and strange - after I submitted that I went to the top of the page and noticed that I wrote the article. Which, I actually didn't. My name is attached to it but I actually didn't write it - someone named R.C. Higgins did. Might wanna correct that! :-)
Wolfgang Baur
Contributor; Publisher, Kobold Press; RPG Superstar Judge
Webstore gninja has already fixed it. So faaaasst.
Hey hey where did the 4E content go???? My DM pal isnt going to be happy, first theres no new 4E books at all and now KQ doesn't even have one article on it - mind you I love the magazine cuz Im a Pathfinder person myself so keep up the good work but no 4E stuffs goona make some ppl sad pandas!
Hey, where did the 4E content go? My DM pal isn't going to be happy; first there's no new 4E books at all and now KQ doesn't even have one article on it. I love the magazine because I'm a Pathfinder person myself, so keep up the good work there!
If your friend wants to see 4e material in KQ, he needs to either submit it or get others to submit it. If no one writes it, the Kobolds can't publish it, simple as that.
Wolfgang Baur
Contributor; Publisher, Kobold Press; RPG Superstar Judge
It's true, the D&D Next playtest has sucked a LOT of the life out of 4E submissions. However, tell your DM about this 4E release with intro by Rob Heinsoo and he might be happier.
I have issues that run from 60 to 90 pages. It mainly depends on the number and length of the articles that are submitted for publishing. If you want an average then I think in the 70-80 page range would fit.
Understand I am a subscriber not an employee nor am I affiliated with Kobold Press in any way.
Unless the publisher is independently wealthy you are going to find ads in any magazine. I don't sense that KQ has an unreasonable number of ads.
Wolfgang could answer your questions more accurately as he is the Kobold-in-Chief.
Wolfgang Baur
Contributor; Publisher, Kobold Press; RPG Superstar Judge
This issue has 88 pages, and is on the bigger side. Last issue had 80 pages.
It varies on ads, but usually at least 10 to 12 pages of ads. Keeps costs down, of course.
Yeah, I have no issue with ads. I was just wondering how many pages of content you had. I'm impressed by the number of articles. Seems like there are more articles than in the old printed Dragon mag.
Very tempting. Appropriate for an issue about demons and devils. :)
I agree. Not only do I not mind the ads, I typically read them all.
It's been said before but back in the pre-internet days of Dragon and Dungeon that was a key way to learn about new products. They're not selling me toasters, they're typically advertising the very types of things I'd be interested in as a KQ reader.
Some of the ad art is really high quality - it's almost like bonus content. Well maybe that's pushing it, but I expect a healthy industry magazine to carry at least some ads for me to peruse.
I agree, I like the ads to. Liked them in the print D + D mags too. I guess, tho, that if the same ad is in there time after time they get a bit annoying. But if the advertisers keep updating their ads, I'll keep looking.