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Our new project is entering it's last week for funding on Kickstarter. If you're curious about RPG game design and want to check out the process this fall, come join us! Our plan is to take a 3rd Edition adventure revise the design and convert it to both 5E D&D and Pathfinder. We're going...

Do you miss the days of Open Design, or did you miss a chance to try it? Want to learn about the RPG Freelancing Business? Want a say as to the design of your next RPG purchase? Check out Design Camp! A new project from me -- Ben McFarland, Jaye Sonia of Storm Bunny Studios, and freelancer...

I'm attempting to find potential players for an Ars Magica 5th Edition campaign, which would begin in April. This would be an in-person game. Potentially played at the Studio of Bridge and Games in Schnectady, NY, maybe someplace else, and likely on an twice-monthly schedule. There would be two...

A mild winter has left us busy but issue #10 is now here, full of stormy skies and unfamiliar magic, with a dash of mystery and a ship to sail it by. Accented with lavish art, you'll find pieces from Ars Magica veterans like Jeff Menges and Angela Taylor alongside Sub Rosa regulars like Vincent...

Great adventures are the foundation of any tabletop RPG. The Dragonlance series, the Vault of the Drow, Tomb of Horrors, Sunless Citadel, Rise of the Runelords--and even Open Design's own Courts of the Shadow Fey have all defined adventure for a generation of gamers. The Midgard Tales project...

Rite Publishing has launched the Martial Arts Guidebook (PFRPG) patronage project! Please stop over at the funding site and check out the promotional video, our pitch, and see if you would be interested in joining us! Just two days in and already we're at nearly the half-way mark! This is...

With a changing of the seasons, Open Design embarks on a fresh project-- Journeys to the West: Fantastic Voyages in the Western Ocean Designer: Christina Stiles (Unhallowed Halls, The Village of Briarton, Faery's Tale) System: Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Adventure Levels: 1 to 12 Length...

With gorgeous cover art by Aaron Miller and 114 pages of frosty goodness, The Northlands is Open Design's response to a fan call for a Sunken Empires sequel. Written by Dan Voyce (Tales of Zobeck, Halls of the Mountain King, Tales of the Old Margreve) and the project patrons, this is a book for...

Soldiers of Fortune, the military sourcebook for 4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons is now in print. Written by game designer and decorated veteran Matt James, this is the first Open Design product to proudly bear the Midgard Campaign Setting logo. Order it today in the Kobold Store! Soldiers of...

The fires of creation burn hot! Today, Open Design is launching its most ambitious design project to date: the world of Midgard! You can be part of this rare opportunity to design a published campaign setting. Your co-authors in this endeavor will be Wolfgang Baur, Jeff Grubb, and Brandon Hodge...

We may have been in Twilight, but we’re back, and better than ever! Sub Rosa #6 is here, with 64—that’s right, 64 pages of content. We’ve got three adventures from veteran and newcomer alike with contributions from Niall Christie, Darren Miguez, and Matthew C. Steele. We’ve got two sample...

Want to join a patron project, but hate waiting through the brainstorming and design process? Still want to influence the final design? Now is your chance. We have seven adventures written by Richard Pett, Christina Stiles, Matt Stinson (RPGSuperstar Top 4, 2009), newcomer Mike Franke, and...

Kobold Quarterly 15 arrived in my hot little hand yesterday, and I have to say, this issue is solid. The cover—Wow. Maybe its being a dad. No, this is just an absolutely gorgeous piece by William O’Connor. I loved his piece on KQ#7, and this one comes in a very close second. The swaddling cloth...

[Kobold Quarterly] Advanced Feats: The Summoner’s Circle Now Available! Open Design’s new PDF series Advanced Feats: The Summoner’s Circle takes you down the rabbit hole into the nitty-gritty of Pathfinder’s new advanced character classes. Each issue gives you 30 new Pathfinder feats to play...

Two of the most infamous outlaws to sail the seas of the RPG world have signed articles, and are setting out on a joint venture of danger and glory! Open Design is launching a new adventure design project for Green Ronin's campaign setting Freeport: The City of Adventure. Patrons of Dark Deeds...

Why not give your players a view so gorgeous you make them roll for surprise? When you lay down one of Jonathan Roberts’ Fantastic Maps, you’ll hear the low whistles of appreciation and the jaws dropping to the floor. A veteran of patronage projects like A Witch’s Choice, Breaking of Forstor...

[Kobold Quarterly] Advanced Feats: The Witch’s Brew The Witch’s Brew mixes together a cauldron full of feats and builds to create a witch character for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game that evokes the awe and dread of medieval folklore. Created by Sigfried Trent, this 14-page book includes: • A...

Courts of the Shadow Fey is a low to mid-paragon adventure (12-15) set initially in the Free City of Zobeck and later in the Realm of Shadow in the Moonlit King’s lands, this is a raucous sandbox adventure with a decidedly social bent that becomes more evident as the adventure goes on. The...

In what’s becoming a welcome annual tradition, the folks at Kobold Quarterly bring you the Gencon issue-- #14 is bigger and more jam packed full of good stuff than any issue before it. The magazine rolls in as a full centurion, perfect bound with a great Nicole Cardiff painted cover that’s a...

Today, Open Design launches the first volume in a new monthly series of PDF books that give you dozens of ways to customize the new character classes for Pathfinder Roleplaying game: Alchemist, Cavalier, Inquisitor, Oracle, Summoner and Witch. Advanced Feats: Secrets of the Alchemist includes...