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Kobold Quarterly Hires Savant, 1st Issue Sold Out

  • Sep. 13th, 2007 at 10:32 AM
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Kobold Quarterly news has kind of piled up lately, and it's almost all good.

The best part is that there has been enough interest that a second issue will definitely be produced, and many of the industry's best writers and artists are contributing to it.

Here's three quick news bits, from the kobold perspective (Everything looks taller from down here).

  1. 3E co-author Skip Williams has signed on to write the "Ask the Kobold" column, which begins in issue #2. His many years of experience with rules questions and D&D design make him the perfect choice to answer reader questions. You can submit your rules and design questions to him at "yesage" at that company that sent out a billion CDs. I'd spell it out, but that always summons the spambots.
  2. The print run for issue #1 has sold out! Yes, it's true, they're all gone. PDFs are available at paizo.com, and all subscriptions going forward will start with issue #2. One-year subscriptions are still just $16.
  3. Speaking of subscriptions, they are now available priced in Euros for all Eurozone subscribers. Makes it easier to see what you're getting, and keeps the declining dollar at bay.


That's the news from the kobold mines — I'm hard at work getting articles and art put together for issue #2, which ships in October. Thanks to everyone who has supported this little venture.

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[info]siobharek wrote:
Sep. 13th, 2007 06:05 pm (UTC)
Erm, thanks for posting in Euros. But the further the dollar goes down (thank you, Mr. President!), the cheaper the magazine is to us Eurotrashers.
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[info]open_design wrote:
Sep. 13th, 2007 06:36 pm (UTC)
Bah, stupid currency exchange rates!

Well, I figure if someone wants to pay the "anywhere else" rate rather than the Euro price, that's probably fine.
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[info]richgreen01 wrote:
Sep. 13th, 2007 08:54 pm (UTC)
This is true. Stuff priced in dollars is very cheap to us Brits at the moment. It's like the late 70s all over again!
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[info]shadawyn wrote:
Sep. 13th, 2007 06:09 pm (UTC)
Congrats on the sell out! :D
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[info]open_design wrote:
Sep. 13th, 2007 06:38 pm (UTC)
Never thought I'd be happy to sell out, but there it is. :)
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[info]ephealy wrote:
Sep. 13th, 2007 06:40 pm (UTC)
Yeah, you're a sell-out, Wolfgang. I quit!
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[info]open_design wrote:
Sep. 13th, 2007 06:55 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I've been waiting all these years to finally turn Open Design over to Big Corporate Toymakers.

I'd like to also announce that Kobold Quarterly is being bought by Mattel to support the Care Bears RPG! Bwahaha! My evil knows no limits!
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(Anonymous) wrote:
Sep. 13th, 2007 07:03 pm (UTC)
That care bear stare is one awesome special ability.
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[info]friadoc wrote:
Sep. 13th, 2007 10:32 pm (UTC)
It is level progressive, like turning or smite, too so it never loses its flare.
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[info]jdigital wrote:
Sep. 14th, 2007 02:28 am (UTC)
Bah, Care Bear Stare (Su) is so broken. If you have another Care Bear PC in the party you can use it in just about every non-trivial combat. It hits touch AC, doesn't suffer elemental resistances or damage reduction, and since it's supernatural rather than spell-like, it even ignores spell resistance.

Aside from that, the race is quite good. Small size and a bonus to Charisma lends itself well to sorceror or perhaps bard, and it works as more or less anything but melee-fighter-types. I'd have to house rule the Care Bear Stare to only work once per day, though.
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[info]joshuarandall wrote:
Sep. 18th, 2007 05:45 pm (UTC)
D&D in-jokes never get old! *grin*
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[info]friadoc wrote:
Sep. 13th, 2007 10:38 pm (UTC)
You know, it's kind cool watching how KQ turns out.

I mean, not only is it fun to have a magazine starting out, especially with the loss of Dragon and Dungeon, but it's also a nice community forming up around it, too.

By the way, Wolfgang, I betcha they're up to 10 billion table coasters by now. *grins*
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[info]kunger00 wrote:
Sep. 14th, 2007 02:15 pm (UTC)
Other uses for the free CD's
If you are at all into tabletop terrain, the free Cd's from THAT COMPANY make excellent bases to put terrain on. Such as craters for sci-fi terrain, rock outcrops, etc etc etc :)

Oh the many uses of the free CD. :)
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[info]jdigital wrote:
Sep. 14th, 2007 02:02 am (UTC)
I just remembered that I never received my PDF of KQ #1 :)
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[info]open_design wrote:
Sep. 14th, 2007 01:38 pm (UTC)
Hm, I tried resending and got "mailbox is full: retry timeout exceeded". If you have another account, let me know.
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[info]jdigital wrote:
Sep. 14th, 2007 02:51 pm (UTC)
Will do.
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