March 4, 2013 / Wolfgang Baur / 7 comments
The turnout on the Castlespotting Contest was excellent, and I was amazed by your clever deductions and by strong Google-fu of many of the entries. Fortunately, many of the Castlespotting images were submitted by readers and not available online, and that’s where things got interesting…
I was flat-out impressed at how many people got 20 right, and floored that a few got 21 correct, but only one team got 22 castles right out of 23 possible. Complete answers, castle locations, and winners are after the jump!
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February 22, 2013 / Wolfgang Baur / 7 comments
Greetings, fellow architecture mavens! It is I, Wolfgang Baur, eccentric game designer!
I’ve enjoyed the Castle of the Week contest on the Midgard Facebook Page so much that I’ve decided to take it to the big time here on the Kobold blog.
Your challenge: Identify the most castle pictures from the set of 23 images below between now and Sunday, March 3, with a winner to be declared on Monday the 4th, GM’s Day. A few will be laughably easy. Others will be mind-crushingly hard.
To the winner goes ETERNAL GLORY, as well as THESE PRIZES (all in PDF):
The losers will be EXILED TO ANTARCTICA, so I can wrap up THAT CONTEST TOO.
(Not really. But the Antarctica Challenge IS STILL UNMET.)
Here are the castles. Email your guesses to koboldpress@gmail.com with the Subject line “Castle Contest.” Tally-ho!
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January 22, 2013 / Kobold Staff / 9 comments
We’re happy to share the news that Maurice de Mare has entered the Top 32 of Paizo’s RPG Superstar contest! Maurice does a fantastic job authoring the Trapsmith series for this blog — one of our most popular columns. Check them out, if you haven’t already.
Congratulations, Maurice, on your success in Round 1. Onward to Round 2!
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January 5, 2013 / Kobold Staff / 16 comments
After being chosen as a finalist by the judges and receiving the largest number of votes by our voting public, Sersa Victory’s Crown of Charon victory has received the Call to Valhalla!
Congratulations, Sersa!
We asked Sersa to give us a few words to share with you all, and here’s what he had to say:
“Thanks to all the judges and voters—I’m humbled to have had my pitch
chosen. This is a great opportunity to expand my skill set, to apply my
design sensibilities to a system I haven’t worked with much in the past.
“The Crown of Charon” is an adventure concept I’ve had in my head for
several months, and I figured this contest would be as good a place as any
to pitch it. Those of you who are familiar with my work should have a good
idea of what to expect; however, this adventure will also aim to trade
some of the deadliness and trickery with a greater emphasis on character
interaction. I look forward to working with the Kobold Press editors and
hope I can both represent them well and give you all a fantastic adventure
you’ll want to run again and again.”
And many thanks go out to all of you for submitting pitches and voting!
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December 30, 2012 / Kobold Staff / 11 comments
This is the moment many of you have been waiting for—the moment when we announce those who have made it into our final five. The moment when you can read each pitch and vote on it. The moment when YOU can help us decide who should be called to Valhalla!
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