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    KOBOLD Guide to Game Design—Volume 2: How to Playtest and Publish
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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—how to pitch your work, how to survive a killer deadline, how to make an impression with magic items, and even how to set up a mystery. Learn what makes a good playtest, and what makes a design matter to a wide audience.

    With insights won from experience in the freelance trenches, this book of advice, tips, and tricks belongs on every designer’s shelf!

    This collection of essays—many previously presented only to patrons of Open Design—is now available to the public for the first time.

    59 pages.

    Wolfgang Baur is the winner of the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming, the editor-in-chief of Kobold Quarterly magazine, and the author of Dark*Matter, Frostburn, Empire of the Ghouls, and dozens of other RPG titles for Paizo, Wizards of the Coast, Open Design, and others.

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    KOBOLD Guide to Game Design -- Volume 2: How to Playtest and Publish PDF
    Paizo Employee Vic Wertz (Technical Director), Mon, Dec 29, 2008, 03:56 PM
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    If you've been waiting for this PDF... the wait is over!
    Lilith (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Planet Stories Subscriber), Mon, Dec 29, 2008, 04:05 PM
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    BAH! And I just placed an order with you guys. :P
    Matthew Morris (RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32), Mon, Dec 29, 2008, 04:10 PM
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    waiting for the dead tree.
    Qadira Wolfgang Baur (Contributor; Publisher, Kobold Quarterly), Mon, Dec 29, 2008, 06:38 PM
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    Dead tree edition is en route from the press. Should be here in 10 days.
    Cheliax TriOmegaZero (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Chronicles, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Mon, Dec 29, 2008, 06:53 PM
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    Where was this at the start of the Beta? :P

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