Kobold Quarterly 5 TOC and 4E Designer Interview

[Monkey King]

Happy Anniversary
Kobold Quarterly is a year old and features an exclusive 4E designer interview!

Editorial: New Math

Jezebel, Princess of Poison Winters
by James Jacobs

Ecology of the Homunculus
by Joshua Stevens

It Came from Monster Isle!
by Matthew J. Hanson

4th Edition Designers: Andy Collins, Rob Heinsoo, James Wyatt
An interview that goes behind the scenes and discusses conversion from 3E to 4E

Make Your Action Points Awesome
by Roger Carbol

Ask the Kobold: Q&A
by Skip Williams

Improving You Improvisation
by Nicolas Logue

Unique Altars
by Phillip Larwood

Maximize Your Monk
by Ross Byers

Horn of Triumph: Magical Instruments
by Stefan Styrsky

V is for Vermin
by Aeryn Rudel

The Kobold Ghetto
by Wolfgang Baur

Cartoons by Stan!

 

[hewligan]

Kobold Quarterly is very cool - for those of you who don't know it, I can fully recommend it. A fantastic magazine. A true spiritual successor to Dragon. Oh, and it is cheap.

I haven't worked my way through the new copy yet, but KQ 4 was AMAZING!!!

 

[Eridanis]

Yikes! Issue 5 already? I have to double-check to see if I was auto-renewed...

 

[Monkey King]

The 4E designers interview turned out pretty well, and the 3E content is great.

Having an arch-devil named Jezebel makes me pretty happy, and having writers like Nick Logue and James Jacobs means that the little magazine is holding its own.

I'll be curious to hear what folks think of the new one. Oh, and there's a poll over on the KQ site about whether the magazine should stick with 3E or migrate to the new system. Vote here!

 

[Alzrius]

The 4E designers interview turned out pretty well, and the 3E content is great.

This man speaks the truth!

Having an arch-devil named Jezebel makes me pretty happy, and having writers like Nick Logue and James Jacobs means that the little magazine is holding its own.

I really enjoyed the Jezebel article. One thing I thought would be played up is how her name almost seems like an adaptation of her father's name, if "Jeze" was a word that meant "daughter of" in some dead tongue - she's the Daughter of Bel: Jeze-Bel.

I'll be curious to hear what folks think of the new one. Oh, and there's a poll over on the KQ site about whether the magazine should stick with 3E or migrate to the new system. Vote here!

I'm glad to see the poll, but I'm not sure it was a good idea to split up 3.5 and Pathfinder into different categories. Pathfinder seems like it's going to be about as different from 3.5 as 3.5 was from 3.0, and there's no 3.0 option listed in the poll. In other words, I think the option should have been "3.5/Pathfinder."

 

[Rechan]

Two questions:

1) Is any of that stuff 4e crunch? I imagine not, given the GSL, but I still want to ask.

2) Is Jezebel a goddess, or what? A little one or two sentences would be useful.

 

[Alzrius]

Two questions:

1) Is any of that stuff 4e crunch? I imagine not, given the GSL, but I still want to ask.

No.

2) Is Jezebel a goddess, or what? A little one or two sentences would be useful.

She's a devil princess; CR 23.

 

[Monkey King]

Two questions:

1) Is any of that stuff 4e crunch? I imagine not, given the GSL, but I still want to ask.

The designers talk about the 4e design process and character builds, but it's an interview, not a mechanics article.

There's no GSL available as of this writing, so... no way to print licensed 4e material yet.

2) Is Jezebel a goddess, or what? A little one or two sentences would be useful.

She's an Arch-devil called the "Princess of Poison Winters", with her own cult, domain spell list, stats and followers. A bit like a Demonomicon article, but for a powerful devil instead.

 

[Rechan]

Thanks, Mr. Monkey.