Kobold Quarterly: Issue 1

[Shane_Leahy]

Just subscribed, hopefully will get a copy soon.

 

[rowport]

Hiya! I just noticed Wolfgang's brief mention in another thread about the paper subscriptions coming soon-- are those detials listed anywhere? When they are available, will that include back-issues also (I would guess yes, if they are Print on Demand mags)? I am definitely intrigued, but much prefer printed text! Any info is appreciated...

 

[Eridanis]

Woohoo! Something to read on the train ride home this evening!

 

[Erekose13]

Hiya! I just noticed Wolfgang's brief mention in another thread about the paper subscriptions coming soon-- are those detials listed anywhere? When they are available, will that include back-issues also (I would guess yes, if they are Print on Demand mags)? I am definitely intrigued, but much prefer printed text! Any info is appreciated...

Here is the ad copy:

Sure, we love our PDF, but paper copies of Kobold Quarterly are
also available as single issues or by subscription. Our scribes are standing by.

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[Monkey King]

Well, it's only been out about an hour and a half. They don't become back issues until they're, say, three days old...

Yep, there's that, and (despite my best efforts with the lash), my kobold scribes are all worn out from the launch.

You should see single issues for sale on Paizo.com and on wolfgangbaur.com in the next couple days, though.

The paper+PDF subscription pricing is actually in the fine print of the first issue: $36 for US, $40 for Canada, $56 everywhere else. I'll post a subscriptions page on wolfgangbaur.com very soon, probably tomorrow. If you'd like to be sure you get one of the paper copies (and I'm thinking I might have underordered), please simply PayPal it and mention its a paper+PDF sub in the notes field.

Going to collapse in a nice dark mine now.

 

[DiamondB]

I've got mine, but I haven't gotten around to reading it. I'll sit down and devour it this evening.

 

[Eridanis]

Just finished reading it. Excellent first issue - well worth the $4!

The Mona interview is probably my favorite part. It's long, and filled with great stuff like this excerpt below (which also gets me really psyched to purchase XtRCG next month). He's talking about Mordenkainen, but it also gives excellent insight into why Eric is such a well-regarded game designer and all-around cool guy.

As part of my effort to understand Greyhawk and what Gygax was trying to do with it before he was ousted, I read his novels. In Artifact of Evil there’s a section in the mindset of Mordenkainen. Mordenkainen is sitting there thinking about how Iuz is doing this, and the druids of the cabal of Heirophants are doing this, and they’re all racing him for the parts of this evil artifact. He’s thinking “Now why in the world would all of these other powers want to be going after the same thing that I’m going after?” And the chapter ends “Oh, it must be because they are jealous of me.” That basically solidified the picture for me: Mordenkainen is highly manipulative, highly intelligent, and he’s all about hubris. He thinks he understands how the universe works, and the concept of balance, and so he’s going to put his thumb on the scales. That conforms to his personal idea of how the universe works, but would it conform to everybody’s? It wouldn’t. He would be an antagonist more than a protagonist, which is good because the player characters are the protagonists.

 

[rowport]

Yep, there's that, and (despite my best efforts with the lash), my kobold scribes are all worn out from the launch.

You should see single issues for sale on Paizo.com and on wolfgangbaur.com in the next couple days, though.

The paper+PDF subscription pricing is actually in the fine print of the first issue: $36 for US, $40 for Canada, $56 everywhere else. I'll post a subscriptions page on wolfgangbaur.com very soon, probably tomorrow. If you'd like to be sure you get one of the paper copies (and I'm thinking I might have underordered), please simply PayPal it and mention its a paper+PDF sub in the notes field.

Going to collapse in a nice dark mine now.

DONE! Thanks for offering the paper copies, Wolfgang, for us technophobes who prefer to read that way!

 

[Glyfair]

Got mine too! I've only read the excellent Erik Mona interview...

Yes, we get an interesting glimpse at why a certain Greyhawk personality will be important to Expedition to Castle Greyhawk.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

I thought it was great and well worth the subscription price! At first, I opened it up and went, "Huh, nothing on kobolds, just derro." Then I read that article. It was good. Then I read the Princes of Hell. The ink devils are perfect for something down the road that I wanted. I hit the Mona interview and realized that I was looking at a cool, scrappy little mag.