Kobold Quarterly #3 has arrived

[Glyfair]

I was just at the Paizo site and glanced at the top sellers. What I find interesting is that KQ #3 is the 6th top seller. However, issue #1 is in 4th place. It seems the discussion about issue 3 is causing a lot of people to look at it from the beginning.

 

[Ant]

Can't sing Kobold Quarterly's praises enough. Wonderful stuff and just keeps getting better with every issue.

 

[Napftor]

I'm enjoying KQ more than most of the recent Dragons and I couldn't be happier to be an advertiser.

 

[megamania]

I've been heeming and hawing on this but after some of the responces I guess its time to subscribe. I assume one can get back issues still?

 

[FATDRAGONGAMES]

I'm enjoying KQ more than most of the recent Dragons and I couldn't be happier to be an advertiser.

Yep, after seeing issue #3 I'm taking out a full page ad for #4. I love the mag-it really brings back memories of Dragon in it's heyday (for me that's around 60-110 or so).

 

[Glyfair]

I've been heeming and hawing on this but after some of the responces I guess its time to subscribe. I assume one can get back issues still?

PDF back issues - yes. Print back issues - no. There was a very limited numbers of print back issues for the first two issues. I'm not sure about the third, but since Wolfgang is making plans for newstand distribution, I assume that problem will be a thing of the past.

You can get them from Wolfgang directly at his site or through Paizo. Subscriptions can only be found through Wolfgang, at least now.

One criticism though, Skip's Ask the Kobold column is about the Spellmaster from Green Ronin's Advanced Player’s Manual. That's a pretty narrow subject for such a column. I understand their problem. They can't touch non-open WotC content, and we probably have mined most of the SRD questions by now, Still, I don't see this as a solution. It was completely useless to me and I imagine a majority of the customer base.

 

[jgbrowning]

PDF back issues - yes. Print back issues - no.

You can get them from Wolfgang directly at his site or through Paizo. Subscriptions can only be found through Wolfgang, at least now.

And Your Games Now has them as well.



joe b.

 

[Monkey King]

One criticism though, Skip's Ask the Kobold column is about the Spellmaster from Green Ronin's Advanced Player’s Manual. That's a pretty narrow subject for such a column.

A valid critique, and certainly something to watch. The problem isn't the narrow SRD, though: it's getting enough questions from the readership as the magazine is launching. Advice columns always have that chicken-and-egg quality as they get started, even though, in Skip's case, he's been giving sage advice for D&D for more than 20 years.

I expect that will resolve itself soon enough, but if you want an answer to a particular question, large or small, please do Ask The Kobold. Your odds of getting a direct answer are very good.

 

[T. Foster]

That's a very solid looking TOC (intriguing-sounding articles by lots of big names in modern/contemporary D&D) and nice cover (eye-catching, very professional looking). It would seem that in 3 issues this magazine has already become a worthy (or even more-than-worthy?) successor to latter-day Dragon. Throw in a short adventure and a handful of reviews (and an industry news column, though in the internet era and for a quarterly magazine I suppose that's redundant and pointless) and it might even be comparable to Golden Age (i.e. Mohan-era, 1982-85) Dragon. This will be a very welcome addition to newstands, and I wish tremendous success to it. I'm half-tempted to subscribe as a goodwill gesture, even though I don't play the game it covers.

 

[Bacris]

Yup, in 3 issues, KQ has really matured nicely, very glad I opted in for advertising in issue #3. Looking forward to seeing issue #4...

Guess I need to get my ads ready for #4, as well.

And I always wanted to actually write something for Dragon, had even been in talks about it prior to its demise... maybe I'll dust off those old notes and drop Wolfgang & crew a line.