Kobold Quarterly

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Kobold Quarterly
FrequencyQuarterly
Publisher Open Design/Kobold Press
Founder Wolfgang Baur
Founded2007;16 years ago (2007)
Final issue
Number
2012 (2012)
#23
CountryUSA

Kobold Quarterly was a roleplaying game magazine created by Wolfgang Baur and published by Open Design LLC.

Contents

Content

Kobold Quarterly was published four times a year and focused on the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game system. [1] [2] The headquarters of the magazine was in Kirkland, Washington. [3]

The magazine occupied the gaming market niche once served by the Dungeon and Dragon magazines, [4] and included interviews with game designers as well as supplemental game material. As of 2011, the magazine had three editors, including editor-in-chief Wolfgang Baur. [5]

Publication history

Dragon #359 (September 2007), would be the final print magazine published by Paizo Publishing, so on May 21, 2007, Wolfgang Baur announced that he would publish a new magazine for gamers, and Open Design soon published the first issue of the D&D 3.5E/d20 magazine Kobold Quarterly (Summer 2007). [6] :332 The first issue of the magazine was published in 2007. [7] Kobold Quarterly #1 sold out of its small print run in September, and Kobold Quarterly #2 (Fall 2007) was produced in full-color and in larger quantities and so that it could be sold in game stores. [6] :334

Kobold Quarterly #23 (Fall 2012) was published in October 2012, but on November 16, 2012, Baur announced that he was going to stop publishing the magazine. [6] :335 The magazine ended publication with issue #23, Fall 2012. [8]

Reception

The magazine has won multiple ENnie Awards. [9]

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