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The first edition of the COMPLETE KOBOLD GUIDE TO GAME DESIGN laid out concepts, techniques and advice for designing roleplaying games and enhancing adventures. This second edition brings together essays from the original volume, many updated to reflect the changing game design landscape, as well as new essays by veteran designers Jeff Grubb (Dragonlance,Forgotten Realms, Guild Wars), Kelly Pawlik (Midgard Sagas, Empire of the Ghouls), Amber Scott (Dungeons & Dragons, Eberron) and Ray Vallese (The Kobold Guide to Magic).Between these covers, you’ll find practical, thought-provoking essays on worldbuilding, creating magic systems, conflict, and compelling stories, what to expect when you work as a design professional, and much more. Conceptual chapters examine what game design is and how good design can create the best games. Concrete examples provide models to help youcreate well-rounded designs and exciting adventures.In his essay, “Seize the Hook,” designer Rob Heinsoo says, “Design a game you want to play but can’t because no one else has designed it yet.” THE COMPLETE KOBOLD GUIDE TO GAME DESIGN, SECOND EDITION will help you do that, and your games and campaigns will never be the same.PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITIONWinner, 2012 Gold ENnie Award, Best RPG-Related Accessory“Highly recommended for gaming nerds everywhere!”—City Book Review

Kobold Guide to Game Design, 2nd Edition

Humor & Entertainment

Stackpole, Michael A.

Baker, Keith

GREENWOOD, ED

Grubb, Jeff

Baur, Wolfgang

McComb, Colin

Scott, Amber

Pawlik, Kelly

Puzzles & Games

The Midgard Campaign Setting brings to life a dark world of deep magic, with seven regions flavored by the folklore of Central and Eastern Europe plus a heady dose of weird fantasy. Lead designers Wolfgang Baur, Jeff Grubb, and Brandon Hodge led the Open Design community in a two-year project to build a sprawling setting supported by adventures and sourcebooks compatible with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Dungeons & Dragons, AGE System, and more. ~Midgard is ley line magic and warped alchemical experiments; the Western Waste's giant, shambling horrors and magic-blasted landscapes; diabolical gnomes and the schemes of immortal Baba Yaga; wild, wind-riding elves and swashbuckling minotaur corsairs; the Mharoti Empire's lethal assassins and exotic splendors; and the dragon-haunted crags of the icy Northlands.

Midgard Campaign Setting: Hardcover (Pathfinder/AGE System Compatible)

Richard Pett’s Your Whispering Homunculus is the GM’s humble servant and guide to the vile, whimsical, disgusting, bizarre, horrific, odd, skin-crawling, and mildly disturbed side of fantasy gaming. 
Your Whispering Homunculus provides wonderfully lunatic ideas and encounters to keep your players on their toes – along with tips on how to make ordinary creatures and locations truly memorable. 
This collection features all Homunculus columns to date, plus more than a dozen ALL-NEW ones from the twisted mind of Sir Richard. Within its 160+ pages of essays, lists, and random tables, the homunculus whispers of: 
<ul>
<li> Unsettling Moments and Strange Entertainments </li>
<li> Pointless Objects and Mangled Monsters </li>
<li> Trog-Kin and Troll-Touched </li>
<li> Daft Bets and Dismaying Delicacies </li>
<li> The Curious Contents of Dungeon Toilets </li>
<li> And so much more…</li>
</ul>
Buy it today and get your very own Whispering Homunculus! 
ENnie-Award Nominated for Best RPG Writing of 2012

Your Whispering Homunculus

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Pett, Richard

Gaming

Heroes, beware the temptation of sin, for sinful acts are impulses disguised as choices, burdens disguised as boons. Yet every day, even great adventurers feel the temptation to sin, the small weaknesses that can humble the mighty. While all sins are indulgent, reactive, or thoughtless, only seven are vile enough to be called deadly. Each spawns unique and startling monsters in this volume, including:  Avarice – the hoard golem and bone swarm, dark things that glorify wealth;  Envy – the poison of jealousy and desire for the unearned;  Gluttony – the bottomless pit that consumes and squanders;  Lust – the inbred orc and the lovelorn, horrors born from carnal desires;  Pride – the overindulgence of the abominable beauty and overconfidence;  Sloth – monsters that waste for nothing;  Wrath – raging creatures that destroy without thought! Monsters of Sin for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game includes  21 monsters thematically tied to one of the seven deadly sins,  7 templates to bring that sin out in monsters and NPCs,  complete notes on using sin in any fantasy world,  7 Embodiments of Sin to challenge the greatest heroes! The Monsters of Sin Collection is suitable for multiple levels of play and can be used in any existing setting and campaign, or combined to create a campaign of Sin. Go beyond ordinary monsters, and challenge your champions with threats to mind, body, and spirit!

The Collected Monsters of Sin: for Pathfinder RPG

Costello Jr., Ryan

"You hear a click!" 
The great tradition of traps in roleplaying games continues — because traps create that freak-out moment when things really, really go wrong! 
Traps make your game better and they add a sting of surprise to any encounter. The Trapsmith sourcebook provides you with original, easy-to-run traps for many Challenge Ratings, and each trap has been maximized for in-game flavor and mechanics by master trap designer Maurice de Mare. All Trapsmith designs come complete with statistics for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. 
This volume includes: 
<ul>
<li> 120 traps spanning a wide range of Challenge Ratings, several locks, and many useful rogue items </li>
<li> Guidance for creating fun, appropriate traps for your own adventures </li>
<li> A complete trap-heavy adventure called Whispers of Wyrmhood
</li>
</ul>
Put a little fear into your next dungeon crawl with this collection of trigger-ready traps, and revel in the deathtraps of the old-school dungeon!

Trapsmith (Pathfinder RPG)

de Mare, Maurice

Your Path is Calling — It's Time to Start the Journey! 
Where better to begin your journey than character creation? This first step is where you forge your identity, and decide how your new hero will meet the challenges of dark magic and fierce monsters: with blade, spell or the power of the gods. 
The New Paths Compendium gives you a dazzling variety of new options to create your new favorite PC. You’ll find 7 new and expanded classes from level 1 through 20—plus enough new feats, spells, archetypes, and resources to build and play a character that you’ll be describing to other gamers (and confused baristas) for years to come. 
The New Paths Compendium includes: 
<ul>
<li> 28 new archetypes for monks, ninjas, gunslingers, barbarians, fighters, clerics, and 7 Compendium classes </li>
<li> 7 tracking sheets for animal companions, favored enemies, prepared spells, summoned monsters and more </li>
<li> 20 new spells for druids, rangers, shaman, and more </li>
<li> Almost 100 new feats for new and existing classes</li>
</ul>
The seven Compendium classes each bring something new to your Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: 
<ul>
<li> The spell-less ranger, a skilled warrior of the wilderness </li>
<li> The shaman, with otherworldly new abilities and an animal spirit guide </li>
<li> The battle scion, a master of sword and spell </li>
<li> The white necromancer, wielding death magic for the side of Good </li>
<li> The elven archer, deadly ranged fighter capable of astonishing feats of marksmanship </li>
<li> The savant, master of all trades (if only for an instant) </li>
<li> The all-new theurge class, combining arcane and divine power!</li>
</ul>
There’s a big world of adventure and peril out there — get your Compendium today and make a hero that it won’t soon forget!

New Paths Compendium (Pathfinder RPG)

Radle, Marc

Frazier, Crystal

Ling Jr., John

Toi, Jerall

Small But Fierce For a kobold, nearly every foe is a giant to kill, and they have long practice at evening the odds. Kobolds are the ultimate underdog contenders, striving gamely to survive and conquer in a hostile and brutal world. Like all true heroes, the odds are against them-and glory is waiting to be seized in their tiny, scaled claws Advanced Races 6: Kobolds gives you everything you need to play a member of this iconic race in the Midgard Campaign Setting or the campaign world of your choice. Compatible with Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, this 32-page book includes: <ul><li> Practical notes on kobold ecology, culture, and gods <li> 100 kobold names and 10 traits that come with them, including Dirtskulker, Ghostsnare and Gougeeye <li> 7 alternate racial traits, and 26 new kobold feats <li> 7 new archetypes including Arcanomechanist, Scrap Warrior, and Tunnel Harrier <li> New gear, spells, magic items and street traps <li> And much more <li></ul> The whole world is against you--and you have so very many surprises planned for it...

Kobolds (Advanced Races)

Blackie, Matt

Milasich, Nicholas

Make your icon rolls—and hope for sixes! The Midgard Bestiary: 13th Age Roleplaying Game Compatible Edition is sending 100 weird, warped and unpredictable new monsters your way. This book includes: 
<ul>
<li>Adventure hooks for each monster and lists of things you’re likely to find on them </li>
<li>9 new player character races including ghouls, gearforged, kobolds and ravenfolk </li>
<li>All-new Midgard icons by Wade Rockett</li>
</ul>
Get ready to face deadly foes from every corner of Midgard: the alleys of Zobeck, the empire of the ghouls, the courts of the shadow fey and the magic-blasted Wasted West. The Midgard Bestiary is full of exciting new creatures and NPCs including: 
<ul>
<li>Steam golems, ice maidens and fellforged warriors </li>
<li>Dwarf mercenaries, marauders and berserkers </li>
<li>Elf spellblades, mages and theurges </li>
<li>Wizards, warmages and alchemists </li>
<li>Iron ghouls, imperial ghasts and spectral wolves </li>
<li>13 icons including the all-new Master of Demon Mountain, Illuminated Brotherhood, and the Beloved Imperatrix of the elves, Regia Moonthorn Kalthania-Reln van Dornig</li>
</ul> Use these monsters in the Midgard Campaign Setting, or bring them into the fantasy campaign world of your choice. Get the Midgard Bestiary today, and unleash the dire weasels!

Midgard Bestiary (13th Age Compatible)

Law, Ash

Rockett, Wade

Kobolds Work a Little Magic 
The popular and wildly useful Kobold Guide series tackles the biggest subject in fantasy: Magic! 
What makes a fantasy fantastic? Magic, of course! Whether it’s unearthly beasts, scheming sorcerers, legendary swords or locales that defy logic and physics, a compelling fantasy story needs magical elements. The tricky part is that in order for the story to work, you have to get your reader or player to believe the unbelievable. 
The Kobold Guide to Magic takes you behind the scenes to learn the secrets of designing and writing about magic from 20 top fantasy authors and game designers. Find out how to create more compelling, more interesting, and more playable magic at your table or in your stories—with the word from some of the most talented creators working today. 
The topics are wide-ranging, from the secrets of Irish magic to tricks of impractical magic, from how to generate a sense of wonder at the gaming table to how to rejigger the teleport spell for stronger adventures tohow to sell a character's soul and how to run a game with visions and prophecies. There's even sections on the magic of J.R.R. Tolkien and the tools available to a game master for making magic their own. The Essential Guide to Magic in Fiction and Games 
This essential companion for fantasy gamers and readers alike feature essays by: 
<ul>
<li>Wolfgang Baur </li>
<li>Clinton Boomer </li>
<li>David Chart </li>
<li>David "Zeb" Cook </li>
<li>James Enge </li>
<li>Ed Greenwood </li>
<li>Jeff Grubb </li>
<li>Kenneth Hite </li>
<li>James Jacobs </li>
<li>Colin McComb </li>
<li>Richard Pett </li>
<li>Tim Pratt </li>
<li>John Rateliff </li>
<li>Thomas Reid </li>
<li>Aaron Rosenberg </li>
<li>Ken Scholes </li>
<li>F. Wesley Schneider </li>
<li>Amber E. Scott </li>
<li>Willie Walsh </li>
<li>Martha Wells </li>
<li>Steve Winter</li>
</ul>
This latest volume in the best-selling and award-winning series of Kobold Guides tackles the mystery at the heart of the fantasy genre. Improve your game and expand your magical power with the Kobold Guide to Magic! 
This book ships early in 2014 and will be in high demand. Don't miss out, and get it in print before everyone else!

Kobold Guide to Magic (Kobold Guides)

Jacobs, James

Enge, James

Pratt, Tim

Chart, David

Hite, Kenneth

Winter, Steve

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