Posts Tagged by Open Design
| December 10, 2012 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
A bit less than a year ago I wrote about the patronage project for Open Design’s Midgard Campaign Setting, which has now been released by Kobold Press ($39.99 softcover + PDF). I was offered a review copy, and as a fan of Wolfgang’s work and a GM with a hearty appetite for fantasy campaign settings, I gladly accepted. Midgard already sounded like it would be my kind of setting book a year ago when I first heard about it, and it is. Like most of…
| July 14, 2011 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Gnotes from Gnome Stew HQ Now that I’ve resurfaced from working on our second book, Masks, one of the things I want to get back to is posting Gnome Rodeos (link roundups) — but I think the format could use a shakeup and a fresh coat of paint, so I’m relaunching this old regular series as “Martin’s Mentions: Gnotes from Gnome Stew HQ.” I want Martin’s Mentions to feel more like an editorial, more personal and less like just a list of links — even…
| March 18, 2011 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
I received two emails recently about items I think will interest Gnome Stew readers, both from friends of the Stew: Shelly Baur of Kobold Quarterly and Open Design and Jonathan Jacobs of Nevermet Press. Kobold Quarterly Anniversary Sale This Sunday is the 5th anniversary of Open Design, the company behind Kobold Quarterly and numerous Open Design projects, including Midgard, and to celebrate the filthy lizards kobolds are having a sale. Specifically, the KQ store is offering 50% off issues 1-15 of Kobold Quarterly, Sunken Empires,…
| January 10, 2011 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
A couple of days ago, Shelly Baur, the other half of Wolfgang Baur’s Kobold Quarterly and Open Design empire, emailed me to ask if I’d be interested in running a piece on a project they’d be announcing on the 9th, and I asked what I always ask: “Will it be of interest to GMs?” She said yes, and that in fact GMs in particular would be interested. That was enough to pique my personal interest — I’ve never seen Wolfgang produce anything less than high-quality…
| November 5, 2009 | Posted by Troy E. Taylor |
There’s a fox in the henhouse over at Open Design, Wolfgang Baur’s design project that produces d20 OGL and 4E materials for its patrons. This particular fox is games designer John Wick, who was the principal designer for 7th Sea and Legend of the Five Rings rpgs and has recently released Houses of the Blooded through his Wicked Dead Brewing Co. Wick’s been taking aim at some d20 sacred cows, such as re-envisioning core races for Kobold Quarterly, and in the Wicked Fantasy segment of…
