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 Quarterly gives you the finest worldbuilding techniques, great interviews, cartoons, and tested tactical crunch.
The premiere issue features:
The Ecology of the Derro
The first installment of the Princes of Hell series
I really enjoyed the first issue and it definitely has great potential to grow and become much more. I look forward to the next issue and many afterwards. Three cheers for printed media!
like a kobold, this mag is long on attitude and short in stature
The first issue from Wolfgang Baur's Kobold Quarterly is a very interesting new offering in the D&D/d20 world. It has a good mix of articles, both fluffy and crunchy (although its comics are a bit flat, Stan! should lay off the old April issue of Dragon-style puns), and it shows a lot of promise for what it can turn into in the future.
Jiro the Grey Wyrm (the cover model and apparent mascot of the KQ) has a few things to work on here and there, true (editing and typo issues, but then again if we complain about that, we'd have to condemn just about every book WotC's released for the last five years), but the promise shown in articles like the continuation of the Ecology series (Derro) and the first of the Princes of Hell (Titivillus, the CR 24 prince of scribes) makes a subscription well worth any D&Der's $16, or the $6 for this first issue.
It's really a 4.5 star product, 4 for execution and 5 for promise of the future. Don't hesitate at all, folks. If you miss the Dragon, give a certain little Kobold a try. You won't regret it.
The first issue of KQ greatly surpassed my expectations with compelling articles I couldn't put down and artwork beyond compare. See for yourself, you'll know what I mean.
There’s an interview with Erik Mona that I actually read and enjoyed despite my aversion to interviews.
Great comix by Stan!
KQ has a sleek layout that pulls you along from cover to cover. What's more, there's a print version available, and for me that's huge.
KQ is well worth the money. I think Wolfgang’s knocked one out of the park.
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