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WereCabbage Pressbook Information
The WereCabbage Pressbook is a compilation of press releases from WereCabbage members, featuring news of recent and upcoming publications, appearances, awards & honors, new projects, and much more. To receive WereCabbage announcements and press releases, sign up here.
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| May 2008 Newsletter |
| May 15th, 2008 7:59PM |
Sinister Adventures
 Logue is in the hizzouse! Stumbling along, tripping over a rock and finding himself with an RPG company, he decided to make the best of it and created something Sinister. With two product lines, Dark Vistas, a dark fantasy setting, and Dark Horizons, a much-needed dark sci-fi setting. Starting off Dark Vistas right, the First Wave of Indulgences is out, with shark bite-sized PDFs full of awesome gaming goodness. "Dajobas: Devourer of Worlds" (Nick Logue) covers a hungry shark god that seeks to return to the Razor Coast; "Death Beneath the Waves: Underwater Adventures" (Wolfgang Baur) brings adventuring back to this plane of existence and covers the lightless depths and hazards therein; "Blood Waters" (Greg Vaughan) takes the PCs to the Sea King's Court, a locathah kindom beneath the waves that is under threat from a demonic kraken; and finally, "The Art of the Duel" (Craig Shackleton), a guide to put the buckle in your swash and a swagger in your step with combat. The First Wave won't take a Dajobas-sized bite out of your wallet - all four are available for only $6. If the Indulgences aren't enough for you, Razor Coast, the first mega-adventure from Sinister, comes out in June and features a non-linear "plot web" that allows a more organic and natural story progression. Also - check out the WAR-tastic cover! Also coming is the long-awaited team-up between arch-rivals Richard Pett and Nick Logue with The Ebon Shroud, a tale of gothic horror and undead, Shrine of Frenzy, an adventure by Brendan Victorson and Nick Logue, and The Haunted Hills of Harrowfar by Greg Vaughan.
 If fantasy's not your bag, we've got your nanofiber armor-covered back. Humanity is but a mote in the cosmic eye, and the cosmos is mighty big. Interstellar sargassos, strange new equipment and more star-spanning empires than you can shake a stun baton at, the Known Universe Gazetter is a spacer's guide to survive, explore, covet and conquer. Coming out in July, you'll be able to whet your appetite for the Universe for a full month before "Cold Black" comes out, another mega-adventure from Lou Agresta & Nick Logue. Simple prisoner transport suddenly gets more interesting when a derelict war vessel, the Seraphim, appears when your ship, the Gloomdrake, drops out of hyperspace. Keep up with the latest news from Sinister on Dark Whispers, SA's official podcast hosted by Ed Healy and Rone Barton.
Louis Porter Jr. Design
 Sidetrek Adventures Weekly nears its completion with the eleventh episode, The Secrets of Troodon Mountain, which leaves the PCs stranded without a way to get back home. SAW goodness does not end with the twelfth episode - The Undead Chronicles are soon to begin. Merzel's Fall is a fortune seeker's paradise, with gold released from the spring melts, many come to the region, but now they find more than they've bargained for. The first episode, The Blood Rush by Tim & Eileen Connors, is currently percolating away in the frozen north, but fear not! The Player's Guide is already available has oodles of player goodies, plus a map of Merzel's Fall. As with the first SAW "chronicle", there is a subscription available for SAW 2 from RPGNow. In the NeoExodus line, Tim Hitchcock brings us The Three Sides of Truth in which the PCs must uncover answers in a political hot zone.
Oerth Journal
 Somewhere (I think it involved time travel), Rick Miller, Ed Healy, Liz Courts, and Adam Daigle, found the free time to contribute to the Maure Castle Special Edition of Oerth Journal, a fan-created PDF magazine of Greyhawk goodness.
Open Design
 The Kobold stole our stuff! Eh, it's okay, he's one of us! With the release of Kobold's Guide to Game Design, a handy guide that should be part of your arsenal, we see the essays that were hinted at during Paizo's RPG Superstar contest. Penned by the Kobold-in-Chief Wolfgang Baur and Nick Logue (along with some other names you might recognize like Ed Greenwood and Keith Baker), this is a must-have for aspiring keeps growing in size and content. It's chock full of awesome - don't miss this RPG writers! KQ #4 has also been released, and has been out for a year (wow) and what a magazine! As a special bonus, Havenmine Gauntlet, an adventure by Adam Daigle and from Highmoon Media, was given as a freebie to subscribers and is now available from RPGNow. The fifth Open Design project, Blood of the Gorgon, is churning away, and I've managed to dig up the cover for it. Awesome! The Tome Show has not one, but TWO interviews with the minds behind Blood of the Gorgon, listen to the first one here and the other one here.
Paizo Publishing
 The Golem's got our stuff! But in a totally good way! Nick "Never Sleeps" Logue started off the Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path, and the cabbages contributed to Seven Days to the Grave with an article on diseases by Ed Healy and Rick Miller, and Richard Pett gives us Escape from Old Korvosa. A History of Ashes allows Michael "Ask a Shoanti" Kortes play with his favorite barbarian tribes and Greg "High Level Adventures" Vaughan takes on The Skeletons of Scarwall (though they're giving him a break from those stat blocks with the opening act of their third AP, Shadow in the Sky). Their standalone line of adventures is fraught with tasty glimpses into other areas of Golarion that have been penned by more cabbages: River into Darkness by Greg Vaughan, The Demon Within by Steve Greer & Tim Hitchcock, Flight of the Red Raven by David Schwartz (winner of the Open Call last  year), Tower of the Last Baron by Steve Greer, Hungry are the Dead by Tim Hitchcock, and The Pact Stone Pyramid by Michael Kortes (a return to Osirion, featured in Entombed with the Pharaohs). Crown of the Kobold King was a smash last year, and Nick Logue gives us Revenge of the Kobold King, Paizo's contribution for this year's Free RPG Day. And there's MORE! Classic Monsters Revisted takes a peek at some of the more well known cannon fodder of D&D and gives them a Golarion spin.
Reality Deviant Publications
 We have a lot of tasty good things coming from RDP. First up and out is Blood Throne: Blight Elves: Architects of Despair and Blood Throne: Blighted Bestiary. Hal Maclean has crafted a truly terrifying picture of the Simarran elves, whose poison touch and dark magics corrupt the land and infiltrate other societies. Ed and Rone cover it a lot better than I could, why don't you listen to them on the Tome Show? (While you're listening, you can pick up the Blighted Bundle, a combined PDF pack with both blight elf  books!) Stefan Happ pens Heroic Tookits: Vehicles, giving you a cornucopia of travel options for your True20 game and Darrin Drader will be releasing Reign of Discordia, a sci-fi setting hearkening back to the TV shows and stories that many of us grew up with in the 70s.
Lovecraft has spawned many things, and those tentacles have reached into the True20 system. The Werecabbages are happy to be working with RDP in releasing Shadows of Cthulhu, the sourcebook for True20 Cthulhu adventures, followed up by a triple shot of era-specific books: Elizabethan England, Ancient Sumeria, and Elders Unleashed. If you like your investigators Shakespearean, your dreams made real, and thought "Cloverfield" may have been a sign of things to come, each of these sourcebooks holds something for you. Your mission is in packet #1102081-e1x, labeled "Operation: Black  Dove" - don't look back when you hear your team being torn apart, and make sure you don't fail your sanity checks.
The tap-tapping on your rooftop isn't from shoggoths, it's the hit squad from the megaconglom whose info you hacked last night. Interface-ZERO is a True20 cyberpunk setting with a dystopian future with the rogue virtual reality AIs, criminal triads, and much more.
Wizards of the Coast
 No shortage of Cabbage Love on the WotC website - last time we saw a return to the Tomb of Horrors, and this time around, we're back with "Zeitgeists" by Hal Maclean in Dragon #362 and "The Oligarchy of Mavet Rav" by Kurlianchik Uri in #363. Adventures abound, with "The Witching Season" by Matt "Great Green God" Conklin in Dungeon #153 and "City of Blood" by Nick Logue in Dungeon #154.
Stuff That's Coming This Year, But We Can't Get Too Specific...Yet
Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting (d20/OGL), Pathfinder Society adventures (d20/OGL), The Great City campaign setting (and adventures) (d20/OGL), Serenity adventure (Serenity RPG), Interface-Zero adventures and sourcebooks (True20), kobolds (d20/OGL), ghouls (d20/OGL), an Asian campaign setting (True20), True20 Cthulhu, and two 4th Edition D&D adventures. Phew!
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| RIP Gary Gygax |
| March 4th, 2008 8:00PM |
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Ernest Gary Gygax
July 27, 1938 - March 4th 2008
A sad sad day - our beloved Dungeon Master has passed, but his legacy of the game we love, and all of the other games it spawned, lives. Some of the Cabbages remember when Dungeons & Dragons was new on the block, and some of us only recent to the game. Here is some of what the Cabbages had to say about this man that had such an impact on our lives and our favorite hobby.
"..." - Tim Hitchcock
"..." - Michael Kortes
"I remember meeting Gary at my first (and so far only) GenCon experience, back in 2000. I was this long-haired, wild-eyed kid, less than a year out of High School, tooling around Milwaukee in the summer with my best friends, high on the feeling of being at the Con of Cons, my sweaty palms clutching my brand new 3rd Ed. PHB - signed by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook & Skip Williams - as I tried to absorb the raw power of Game that was in the air through my damn PORES. While I was crossing the street from my hotel to the convention center, I noticed this older guy -big beard, whole deal - sitting outside and just enjoying the perfect weather. He had this small group of people around him, and he was chatting amicably with them. We wandered over, and basically stepped into the conversation as Mr. Gygax was explaining to a group of people the simplified history of the hobby. Star-struck, we just stood there - and the Stan Lee of D&D talked with every single person there. He signed my 3rd Ed. book, too: front page, where it says 'Based on the original Dungeons & Dragons game created by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.' Sleep well, sir. You will be missed." - Clinton J. Boomer
"Meaning no disrespect to all the people wishing you to rest in peace or sleep well, Gary, Don't! Wherever you are, I hope you took your dice. There are a lot of folks there that have been waiting for you to run a game for them. Get behind your screen and roll some bones!" - Craig Shackleton
"I owe so much to Mr. Gygax. Not only did he create my most beloved past time, he helped mold much of the type of man I am today. It sounds a little melodramatic, but it's the honest truth. " - Steve Greer
"Saw the link on the Paizo page earlier at work and have been in a funk all day. And it was a good day, today, too. Im not sure if funk is the right word...more like super-nostalgic. I sat there remembering cracking open the red Basic book (and Keep on the Borderlands) and just finding myself. Id seen the Rankin/Bass Hobbit and RotK and read the Prydain Chronicles by Alexander and probably read 10 or so Savage Sword of Conan comic mags, but nothing transported me as far as those first rulebooks. I know my first copy of that rulebook was shot to hell by the time I bought another! His work probably did kill 50 of my characters (and more of my friends', I usually ended up being DM back then). But it brought so much more to life! So sorry to hear of his passing, but I figure he's free from pain now and thinking up new ideas to incoroprate into an awesome new game system or sitting somewhere with Moldvay and talking over old times." - Rob Manning
An End of An Era. Our Creator Is Fallen. A sad day folks. - Nicolas Logue
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| Happy Mardi Gras! |
| February 5th, 2008 12:00AM |
The season of Lent is upon us, but before you crawl back into bed from your Mardi Gras excitement, have we got a smorgasbord of gaming goodies for you!
 First up, from Reality Deviants Publications, is a True20 sourcebook, Technothrillers. Co-written by Patrick Smith and edited by Troy Taylor, Technothrillers is an action-packed sourcebook for all of your espionage game needs. Equipment is the least of what's in this 106-page PDF - included are detailed vehicle chase rules for that speedy getaway in your shiny red TransAm.
  The first month of 2008 has sprouted an awesome team up with Louis Porter Jr. Designs - not only did Greg Oppedisano (or Greg O as we like to call him) put out a monster for the NeoExodus line (Harvester of Sorrow), we've also teamed up for a twelve-part adventure series called Sidetrek Adventure Weekly. Just like old radio serials, the adventures are meant to be played quickly one after another and are perfect to break up longer campaigns. The first part, Blood on the Waterfront, written by Lou Agresta, is available now and dives right into action pronto. The second part, The Blood Stained Trail by Rob Manning, comes out this Friday! (Yes, there is a subscription available through RPGNow.) Rumor says that there might be a volume two collection of Sidetrek adventures (or SAW, as we've come to abbreviate it).
 Paizo has not missed out on the Cabbage Love this month either. This month finished off the first adventure path in Pathfinder, Rise of the Runelords, with Steve Greer's Sins of the Saviors and Greg Vaughan's Spires of Xin-Shalast. Spiteful ghosts get center stage in Nicolas Logue's U2: Hangman's Noose.
 Wolfgang Baur's Open Design project has released Six Arabian Nights, and also announced Blood of the Gorgon, a team up project between the Kobold-in-Chief and Nicolas Logue.
 Later this month, we've got Steve Greer's Prisoner of Castle Perilous (Acererak returns and yes, that's his bad self to the right there), Nick Logue returns to the realm of Eberron with his hand in City of Stormreach as well as the opening adventure for Paizo's second adventure path, Curse of the Crimson Throne, in the Pathfinder line, Edge of Anarchy. Matt Conklin adds his touch to part three of Sidetrek Adventure Weekly with The Bloody Dog's Den. Paizo's GameMastery line of adventures releases J3: Crucible of Chaos by Wolfgang Baur. James Jacobs, Editor-in-Chief for Pathfinder, had this tidbit to say about J3: "He wrote that one with SURGICAL precision to get my attention: dinosaurs, Lovecraft stuff, flying monkeys."
 I've saved the best for last, because I've been chompin' at the bit to see this one in my hot little hands. GM Gems Volume I: A Tome of Inspiration for Fantasy Game Masters, published by Goodman Games, is a collection of the best cabbage creative squeezings to date. A release date of February 11th and a free preview will be on the Goodman Games website, and maybe even a podcast... When I know, you'll know. Just a mere smattering of the tasty goodness in here includes replacement rod of wonder effects, alchemical mishaps, unique campsites and taverns (and their proprietors), ways to quickly shake up monsters on the fly, unusual holidays...There is more. Much much more. I didn't give an author list last newsletter, but here it is, complete and unadulterated: Stephen S. Greer, Louis Agresta, Rone Barton, B. Matthew Conklin III, Ashavan Doyon, Russell Brown, Liz Courts, Adam Daigle, Tom Ganz, Dave Hall, Stefan Happ, Ed Healy, Tim Hitchcock, Phil Larwood, John E. Ling, Jr., Hal Maclean, Rob Manning, Greg Oppedisano, Greg Ragland, Craig Shackleton, Patrick Smith. Oof. That's a lot of cabbages.
'Til the next time, keep on gaming (whatever you game).
- The Cabbage Gardener
About Goodman Games
Goodman Games publishes roleplaying games, adventure modules, RPG accessories, card games, and miniatures using the d20/OGL rules. Popular product lines include Dungeon Crawl Classics, Etherscope, and DragonMech.
About Louis Porter, Jr. Design
Louis Porter, Jr. Design is a publisher of d20 PDF products, including the successful NeoExodus line, Haven: City of Violence, OGL: Super Powered and Polymecha.
About Open Design
Open Design is a series of RPG projects funded by a small group of patrons and written by Wolfgang Baur.
About Paizo Publishing
Paizo Publishing®, LLC is a leading publisher of fantasy roleplaying games, accessories, board games, and novels. Paizo's GameMastery™ line offers game masters fun and useful tools to improve their fantasy roleplaying experience. Titanic Games™, Paizo's board game division, unites the greatest game designers to create compelling, challenging games like Kill Doctor Lucky and Stonehenge, the world's first Anthology Board Game™. Paizo.com is the leading online hobby retail store, offering tens of thousands of products from a variety of publishers to customers all over the world. Paizo's Planet Stories™ line of science fiction and fantasy novel reprints promises a master class in the genre aimed at building the greatest fantasy and science fiction library ever assembled. In the five years since its founding, Paizo Publishing has received more than a dozen major awards and has grown to become one of the most influential companies in the hobby games industry.
About Reality Deviant Publications
Reality Deviant Publications is a publisher of Green Ronin's True20 "Worlds of Adventure" setting contest "Blood Throne" in addition to many other True20 products.
About Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., is the pacesetter in the trading card game and tabletop roleplaying game categories, and the leading developer and publisher of game-based entertainment products. Wizards of the Coast is considered the global leader in hobby gaming, developing and publishing game based and other entertainment products celebrated the world over. |
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| It's 2008 - start the gaming year right! |
| January 2nd, 2008 1:20PM |
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Wizards of the Coast
 Anauroch: The Empire of Shade
Greg Vaughan co-wrote the finale of the three-part 160 page super adventures set in the Forgotten Realms. Anauroch: The Empire of Shade fleshes out the desert realm, home of ancient Netherese tombs and artifacts, and as the players find out by the end of the adventure, a lot more than they bargained for.
 Hell's Heart
Fan favorite Nicolas Logue continues the story of Viktor Saint-Demain, first introduced in the pages of Dungeon Magazine. Even imprisoned in the Hell's Heart asylum, Saint-Demain's diabolic intrigues continue to plague the PCs. Set in Sharn, the City of Towers, for the Eberron Campaign Setting.
The Plague Tree
Another offering by Greg Vaughan, the petrified Plague Tree was formed from the remains of a powerful arakhor, a treant of immense power. The corpse of the once noble guardian has been corrupted by the presence of numerous foul creatures that now inhabit the warrens carved into its interior. Most notable are the undead harpy raiders, wielding deadly poisoned arrows, that lair in its branches. But at the root of the plague tree lies an even more potent foe.
Goodman Games
Dungeon Crawl Classics #52: Chronicle of the Fiend
Phil Larwood helped pen this three-part GenCon 2007 module, in which the players play apprentices to a mage. They return home to find their master's tower burnt to the ground, and set out to rescue their master. For levels 0 to 10th.
Paizo Publishing
 GameMastery Module E1: Carnival of Tears
The dynamic duo of Tim Hitchcock and Nicolas Logue return the readers to Darkmoon Vale and a very unusual carnival. Anger, revenge and murder - the fey of Darkmoon Vale are not to be faced by the faint of heart. For 5th level characters.
GameMastery Module J1: Entombed with the Pharaohs
 Mike Kortes snuck up and landed a slam dunk with this adventure set in Paizo's Pathfinder Chronicles setting. Osirion's deserts hold their secrets, and guess who gets to find some of those out? Interesting traps abound, numerological references, and some sneak-peeks of the expanding world of the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting. For 6th level characters.
 GameMastery Module TC1: Into the Haunted Forest
Greg Vaughan (he's in here again!) authored this mini-adventure that was included with Paizo's GameMastery Treasure Chest of goodies. Barroom brawls have a tendency to get out of hand, and the intro to this adventure is one such shindig. For 1st level characters.
 Pathfinder #3: Rise of the Runelords: The Hook Mountain Massacre
The rangers of Fort Rannick have a wee bit of a problem - namely, the amassing giants in the mountains and the ogre families in the wilderness around them. Things go from bad to worse when contact with the fort is lost, and the PCs go to investigate. Written by Nick Logue for 7th to 9th level characters.
Recommended movies to watch: Deliverance. Banjos optional.
 Pathfinder #4: Rise of the Runelords: Fortress of the Stone Giants
Wolfgang Baur returns the players to the town of Sandpoint, under assault by giants (and another iconic creature). Schemes are uncovered, and the plot begins to unwind. For 10th to 11th level characters.
Open Design
 Kobold Quarterly #3
This issue of KQ packs a mighty punch with their third offering. Richard Pett starts it off right with an Ecology of the Lich and the Kobold-in-Chief Wolfgang Baur contributes an article on the Star & Shadow Magic of Zobeck, the Free City. The fun continues with more cabbage offerings, including an article by Jonathan Drain on Power Attack and a "better-than-dragon's-blood" background for sorcerers by John E. Ling, Jr. The staid dungeon door gets an overhaul by Stephen S. Greer and the whole kobold trap kit is polished off by The Flying Traders of Sikkim, another article for the Free City of Zobeck.
Oh, did we mention the page count for Kobold Quarterly went up?
Man in Black: Are you finished?
Fezzini: Wait 'til I get started!
Coming in January 2008
Open Design
Six Arabian Nights - Wolfgang Baur
Paizo Publishing
GameMastery Module U2: Hangman's Noose - Nicolas Logue
Pathfinder #5: Rise of the Runelords: Sins of the Saviors - Stephen S. Greer
Wizards of the Coast
Prisoner of the Castle Perilous - Stephen S. Greer
Coming in February 2008
Goodman Games
GM Gems Volume I - (too many cabbages to list them all!)
Paizo Publishing
GameMaster Module J3: Crucible of Chaos - Wolfgang Baur
Pathfinder #6: Rise of the Runelords: The Spires of Xin-Shalast - Greg Vaughan
Wizards of the Coast
City of Stormreach - Nicolas Logue
About Goodman Games
Goodman Games publishes roleplaying games, adventure modules, RPG accessories, card games, and miniatures using the d20/OGL rules. Popular product lines include Dungeon Crawl Classics, Etherscope, and DragonMech.
About Open Design
Open Design is a series of RPG projects funded by a small group of patrons and written by Wolfgang Baur.
About Paizo Publishing
Paizo Publishing®, LLC is a leading publisher of fantasy roleplaying games, accessories, board games, and novels. Paizo's GameMastery™ line offers game masters fun and useful tools to improve their fantasy roleplaying experience. Titanic Games™, Paizo's board game division, unites the greatest game designers to create compelling, challenging games like Kill Doctor Lucky and Stonehenge, the world's first Anthology Board Game™. Paizo.com is the leading online hobby retail store, offering tens of thousands of products from a variety of publishers to customers all over the world. Paizo's Planet Stories™ line of science fiction and fantasy novel reprints promises a master class in the genre aimed at building the greatest fantasy and science fiction library ever assembled. In the five years since its founding, Paizo Publishing has received more than a dozen major awards and has grown to become one of the most influential companies in the hobby games industry.
About Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast, Inc., a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., is the pacesetter in the trading card game and tabletop roleplaying game categories, and the leading developer and publisher of game-based entertainment products. Wizards of the Coast is considered the global leader in hobby gaming, developing and publishing game based and other entertainment products celebrated the world over. |
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| October Releases |
| October 4th, 2007 12:00PM |
Open Design
The Empire of the Ghouls released for Patrons!
Open Design's third project, The Empire of the Ghouls, has been released to their patrons. This Open Design project is all about creating an advanced, detailed underdark society of civilized ghouls. Some highlights include description of their gods, slaves, templates, new monsters, and unique magic, and then setting up all those elements within a multi-level adventure for roughly 9th to 12th level. The final result will be a 100+ page adventure unlike any other, with lethal and new challenges for any experienced party.
Open Design's fourth project, an Arabian Nights-themed project, is open for donations now. Become a patron and have one of the industry's leading writers craft an adventure based on your feedback!
Kobold Quarterly #2 Released!
Small but fierce is the by-line of this quarterly magazine, but the contents are anything but small. The second issue continues with the Princes of Hell article series, detailing a lazy figure. A rare interview with Wayne Reynolds, fan-beloved artist, along with a barghest Ecology article written by another fan favorite, Nicolas Logue, is only the tip of the fierce content in this issue of Kobold Quarterly.
Subscriptions to KQ start at $16 a year for PDF-only, or if you like the feel of dead tree in your hands, $36 a year. International subscriptions are available, read more about it at Open Design's website.
Paizo Publishing
Pathfinder #2 - The Skinsaw Murders
WereCabbage Richard Pett penned this freakishly fascinating tale of the Skinsaw Men and their murderous exploits in Sandpoint. Unravelling the mystery of the murders is just the first step, but will the heroes themselves become suspects? Continuing Paizo's tradition of high production values and even better writing, "The Skinsaw Murders" are the second in Paizo's Pathfinder Chronicles Adventure Path series.
GameMaster Module U1: Gallery of Evil
Steve Greer's tale of a popular artist's showings gone terribly wrong is the first GameMastery Module adventure for Urban settings. When the painter's patrons turn up in pieces, it's up to the heroes to discover the truth being the paintings.
Tabletop Adventures
Bits of Magicka: Rings and Jewels
The second of Greg Ragland's Bits of Magicka series of PDFs, "Rings and Jewels" takes your ho-hum rings, necklaces and amulets and gives them a new spin to make your players go "Whoa" (or not - cursed items are included). ABOUT OPEN DESIGN
Open Design is a series of RPG projects funded by a small group of patrons and written by Wolfgang Baur.
ABOUT PAIZO PUBLISHING
Paizo Publishing®, LLC is a leading publisher of fantasy roleplaying games, accessories, board games, and novels. Paizo's GameMastery™ line offers game masters fun and useful tools to improve their fantasy roleplaying experience. Titanic Games™, Paizo's board game division, unites the greatest game designers to create compelling, challenging games like Kill Doctor Lucky and Stonehenge, the world's first Anthology Board Game™. Paizo.com is the leading online hobby retail store, offering tens of thousands of products from a variety of publishers to customers all over the world. Paizo's Planet Stories™ line of science fiction and fantasy novel reprints promises a master class in the genre aimed at building the greatest fantasy and science fiction library ever assembled. In the five years since its founding, Paizo Publishing has received more than a dozen major awards and has grown to become one of the most influential companies in the hobby games industry.
ABOUT TABLETOP ADVENTURES
Tabletop Adventures is made up of six personnel who range from two to 32 years of experience in roleplaying games. Tabletop Adventures make the products they've always wished were available, focusing on aids and resources for game masters. |
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| Open Design - Kobold Quarterly #2 Announced! |
| September 25th, 2007 3:00PM |
 Kobolds Fight Dirty
Kobold Quarterly is the scrappy little magazine of Open Design, a tiny journal that covers the world's premiere roleplaying game. Each issue is written and illustrated by the industry's best.
Because Kobold Quarterly is not associated with any particular company, we can run what gamers want, instead of what the marketing department wants. We talk shop, interview RPG luminaries, do character optimization, and offer you the finest worldbuilding techniques to tested tactical crunch.
This Issue
- Ed Greenwood's Dungeon Design
- Ask the Kobold: game advice and profundity
- The Ecology of the Barghest
- Better Paladins, Killer Characters, and so much more!
Kobolds are Ready to Take Your Order!
Subscribe to the paper edition and get the PDF for free, or subscribe to the PDF-only and save!
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| Open Design's The Empire of the Ghouls off to the presses! |
| September 24th, 2007 5:00PM |
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 Deep below the earth, in caverns lightless and unknown to man, live our nightmares: the spidery drow, the wild alien mind shredders and intellect devourers, the insatiable ghouls in their cities and empires.
This Open Design project is all about creating an advanced, detailed underdark society of civilized ghouls. This includes some description of their gods, slaves, templates, new monsters, and unique magic, and then setting up all those elements within a multi-level adventure for roughly 9th to 12th level. The final result will be a 100+ page adventure unlike any other, with lethal and new challenges for any experienced party.
Features Include
- Fully-mapped ghoul empire and underdark cities
- More than 50 playtested encounters, many with tactical maps
- A ghoul prestige class, the Imperial Hunter
- Design interviews with Ari Marmell and Sigfried Trent
- Ghoul magic and items unique to the Imperium
- And 7 new deadly monsters!
The whole package is professional illustrated and laid out, and a paper copy will be available to patrons through lulu.com. Join today, and help support Open Design! About Open Design
Open Design is a series of RPG projects funded by a small group of patrons and written by Wolfgang Baur. |
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| GM Gems Volume 1: A Collection of Game Master Inspiration |
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The WereCabbages are putting the finishing touches on a 48,000 word book containing a collection of articles, tables, and adventure ideas destined to be a must have in every Game Master's library. More information will be posted when the final details have been worked out with the publisher. Stay tuned!
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