Flurry of Kobolds!
New Kobold Quarterly from Open Design!
It doesn't seem that long ago that I held the very first Kobold Quarterly in my hands, but now, those crafty kobolds have just released issue #19, and there are some tasty previews of the Dragon Empires of Golarion's Tian Xia!
Jam-packed with articles for many roleplaying game system flavors, Kobold Quarterly #19 covers many different topics, including many magic-focused articles, new archetypes for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, the white necromancer alternate class, and many more topics you can add to your game right away!
For fans of the Jade Regent Adventure Path, you'll get a sneak peek of the five new player races of the Dragon Empires, as well as the twenty-eight realms of the Empires in "Welcome to the Dragon Empires!" The towering heights of the Wall of Heaven guard the north and western approach to Tian Xia, and the lost kingdoms and dense jungles of the Valashmai Jungle and Nagajor guard the south. The Inner Sea region of Golarion presents hundreds, if not thousands of new ideas and adventure hooks, and this article will have you hungering for the upcoming Dragon Empires Gazeteer and Dragon Empires Primer! Paired with this article is "Lords of Hell: Làu Kiritsu", detailing the arch-devil known as the Lord of Absolute Obedience and penned by Richard Pett.
Beyond these two tastes of Tian Xia, you will get system-neutral ideas from "Courting Adventure" (how to bring royalty to life in your game) and how to make simple traps more exciting, Midgard Campaign Setting backgrounds for the AGE system. Just in time for Halloween, you'll also get werewolf themes for your Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition character!
Those kobolds have been busy this month, so you're not just getting a new gaming magazine, you're also getting a brand-new Call of Cthulhu adventure! In Red Eye of Azathoth, this ominous comet brings horrors beyond our ken in a tale that spans centuries and continents. Five adventures ranging from England to Japan to Spain to the lost Roanoke Colony and finally in the Arizona Territory of the late 1800s, your investigators will fight against these Lovecraftian terrors, all beneath the lurid glow of the Red Eye!
Since the last time we featured Open Design on our blog, they've introduced a new series: Divine Favor! This series of PDFs are designed to expand upon the spiritual classes of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. If you want to turn your cleric up to 11, or become a champion of nature with your druid, be sure to check out all of the options in this series! (Game masters, don't forget—what's good for your players is good for NPCs, right?)
Check out all of Open Design's award-winning gaming material right here!
