October 2008 - Posts
Sometimes the Friday Funnies are just awesome. As in the case of this recording of R.A. Salvatore's wonderful
wand of wonder story, an
audio Friday Funny at KQ.com...
The man behind the dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden quite a funnyman. Much more so than his famous character’s grim tales might lead you to believe.
As evidence, we offer this audio bit of kobold diplomacy called the “Wubba Wubba Story”...
Skip Williams answers questions in Ask the Kobold on
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Skip Williams answers questions in Ask the Kobold on <a http://www.koboldquarterly.com>koboldquarterly.com</a>. And he's taking your questions in the KQ forums.
Wrath of the River King is heading into final draft form, and heading to the editor soon. I have to say that, like with any new edition of D&D, the learning curve has been interesting; things that look good in theory haven’t always panned out...
Skip Williams is one of the designers of 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons. He’s also a regular columnist for Kobold Quarterly. We ran out of room in the upcoming issue for his Ask the Kobold column, so we’re running those questions here on the site...
If you are planning on running a horror game for Halloween, such as say,
Blood of the Gorgon or the
Empire of the Ghouls, there's some fine advice for GMs on how to get the most out of it in Tim Connor's
How to Run a Horror Adventure tips and tricks.
Yes, the very same Tim Connors who wrote for Dungeon Magazine, and for
Tales of Zobeck. Good stuff.
This week's Monday Monday is
Jack the Ripper, done up in a supernatural style by John Ling.
Whitechapel, London, England (WKQ News) For the fourth time in the last two months, a prostitute working in Whitechapel became the victim of gruesome murder. The woman – identified as Maryanne Smithson – was found dead in an alley behind Durwood Street...
Mr. Greenwood explains how to annoy a librarian, in this week's
Friday Funny.
On what we hope will be a continuing feature, here’s the first of our Friday Funnies. This one comes to us courtesy of Ed Greenwood, who is asked to contribute a game design to his peers in the library sciences…
This story is paraphrased Read...
If you’ve already read the Dwarven Guide to Airships in the current issue, you know what’s coming: a Web freebie! Yes, we ran out of room in this issue, so a few of the smaller-class airships are presented here, the Drake, the Dragonfly, and...
Yes, it seems like just yesterweek I was coming back from GenCon and collapsing in a heap at the Ye Old Kobold Mines. And then just like that, it’s already Fall and here’s the issue to prove it. Where did the quarter go? The issue features...
Warning: This review contains spoilers.
Book info: Soft cover, 48 pages Publisher: Goodman Games Author: Harley Stroh with Aeryn Rudel Gameplay: D&D 4E, 5 PCs of 1st level Crunch: new evil race, three new monsters, three new magic items
Dragora’s...
Another monster freebie today, this one a more fantasy-oriented creature called the
Lyeflesh Zombie. Though I think it could (sadly) still find a home in many d20 Modern games as well.
If you are passionate about the gaming hobby: feed your passion with gaming podcasts. How often do you game? Twice a week? Once? One a month? When you find those few short hours just do not satisfy scratch your gaming itch, you probably do other stuff...
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