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I hear you like Shakespeare mixed with games, sometimes. So... Which is Shakespeare's best play? Which Shakespeare play really really really should be a board game? Puck or Falstaff?

Hey Milke, thanks for your question! 1) I love a lot of settings, and yes, Midgard most of all, but if I have to choose it's a knife fight between Al-Qadim and Planescape. I'm going with Al-Qadim today, and I might go with Planescape tomorrow. 2) Maybe a tiny bit, in the way that game...

Thanks Plancktum--I love Tyranny of Dragons, too. :) I wish there was a simple answer to the "make it easy to run" question, but the reality is that design is a set of tradeoffs. For Tyranny, all the stats are provided in a free PDF file to make it easy to access the monster stats, even without...

Thanks for your question, VandaExpress! I trimmed them back a bit as you suggested, but lemme see if I can shed some light. 1) I do get this question a lot, to the point where I wrote a whole book on the topic (Kobold Guide to Game Design). I also run a Freelancing 101 panel at conventions...

Yes, I do have several 5th Edition projects cooking, and the only one I can really talk about is the conversion of the Southlands Bestiary into 5E terms. That was a stretch goal of the Southlands project, and the resulting text contains 100 new monsters with 5th Edition stats. All the monsters...

Sure! The compendium expands on the Advanced Races series for PC options, including new races, monstrous races, and classic races; 15 races in all with new spells, feats, archetypes, etc. The more traditional races include the aasimar, gnolls, kobolds, lizardfolk, tieflings, and a few more...

Hey, CubeB, thanks for asking about 13th Age, and I'm glad you like both the Midgard Bestiary and the Deep Magic sourcebook for that system. I like 13th Age, but I'm far from the biggest 13th Age fan at Kobold Press--that honor goes to Wade Rockett and kobold friend ASH LAW. And I suspect...

Magazines Thanks, Will, for raising a subject near and dear to me. It's no secret that I love magazines, they got me my start in the RPG business as a freelancer and as a staffer, and yet... I think there's extremely slim hope of KQ returning. It required about 4 months of my time every year...

7 Secrets of Kickstarter? Sure, since I'm running the Advanced Races Compendium Kickstarter right now, of course the topic is on my mind! I've run about 20 crowdfunded projects, and there's a few things that work for me and for Kobold Press. 1) For the basics of planning and creation, plus...

Yep, dark fantasy and deep magic is definitely the direction of Midgard (and the Southlands as well, in a different way). I think of the distinction as mostly a matter of tone. In dark fantasy, there are more fallen kingdoms and lost cities: ruins, decline, decay and evil on the rise. For me...

Hey Morrus, thanks for hosting this! The 5E adventures are produced as a combination of studio work and WotC oversight. For Kobold Press, we'd do some portion of the work, then we would get feedback from WotC on Realmslore, or story beats, or mechanics. Then we did more of the design, and got...

Hi Azgulor, thanks for your questions! For my favorite Midgard region besides Zobeck... Yeah, it is exactly like picking among your children. I love Morgau & Doresh for the undead horror of it, but convincing players to send characters there is a bit of a challenge. I'm also extremely happy...

As a player, I'm pretty satisfied with what we've seen so far. There's not much else I gotta have, though of course some new options for the core classes are always welcome. Wouldn't mind a second setting beside the Realms. As a game designer and writer.... I'd really like to have a second...

Well, the Tyranny of Dragons adventure design started when there was no Monster Manual, and for me, that was a major difficulty. Both Steve Winter and I know the monsters available in a general sense, but at least for me, adventure design often begins with a trip to the Monster Manual for...

Good morning, everyone! I've got my coffee and am almost ready to dive into the questions. I'm going to be popping in and out of the thread all day, but I like the questions so far.

Two years since release, true. Kobold Press was working on the series starting in October or November 2012. Publisher-time is not quite the same as release time.

Yes, Kobold Press started this series back in 2012. This collects a different set of races, but there's some overlap with the Paizo book as well (including Paizo staffer like SRM and Amanda Hamon Kunz).

Game designer and publisher. My best-known recent credits are with Kobold Press, WotC's Tyranny of Dragons adventures for D&D 5th Edition, Pathfinder, and the Midgard Campaign Setting. My older designs include work for 3E and 2E D&D from WotC and TSR, such Frostburn, Planescape, Al-Qadim, and...

I was a hopping Monkey King yesterday. The final pile of rewards was huge, and I'm going to be working hard with the Kobold Press crew to deliver 3 books and slew of great material to backers. Thanks to those who jumped in and backed it!

Wizbang, the flavor of the islands varies from Pirate to Cultist to Undead Lich Queen to cannibal demon-apes and a city of explorers, sailors, and privateers (Port Royal meets Lisbon, maybe). If I had to pick one style, I'd say it is pulp in the style of Conan, though there's also a murder...