Posts Tagged by wolfgang baur
| 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…
| August 1, 2011 | Posted by John Arcadian |
A while back (quite a while back actually) I was given a complimentary PDF copy of Courts of the Shadow Fey for review purposes. The concept was interesting and I was looking for an excuse to get my group to give 4th ed. D&D a valid try. My goal was to give the mini-campaign a decent play test. Sadly, before my group could get familiar enough with 4th ed. so that I could jump them into the higher level adventure, the group imploded under the…
| 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…
| June 21, 2010 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Despite the well-known enmity between gnomes and kobolds — AKA scaly halflings — the Stew hearts Kobold Quarterly. Why? Because it rocks. KQ is the brainchild of Wolfgang Baur, one of the most famous game designers around, and among the many other irons he has in the fire he publishes the Kobold Guide to Game Design series. Volume III came out in print last Friday, and Wolfgang asked if I’d like to write a GMing article about this volume, which is subtitled “Tools & Techniques.”…
| May 30, 2009 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Today’s surprise weekend article is brought to you by the word “open.” DMing Tools: Get a Free Copy of Open Game Table For May 31 and June 1 only, if you sign up for (or upgrade to) a premium account on the DMing Tools website offered by Dungeon Mastering, you get a free copy of Open Game Table: The Anthology of Roleplaying Game Blogs, Volume 1 (which retails for $22.95). Open Game Table Open Game Table is the first prominent collection of RPG blog content…
