The Midgard Campaign Setting fan community is growing faster than an ill-advised alchemy experiment in Maillon! It’s an active, vibrant community, full of people who want to take what we’ve created and run with it in exciting and fun directions. So we thought, why not make it easier for them?

To encourage fan sites and free fan-created projects using Midgard and other Kobold Press IP, we’ve just launched the Kobold Press Community Use Policy. This policy covers free, fan-created material only; if you want to do a commercial project, check out our Freelancer Guidelines.

Along with guidelines on what fans can use and how, we’re also offering the first Kobold Press Community Use Package of resources. This first package contains 10 of the Midgard setting’s most iconic characters — and we’ll be adding new packages over time.

Tell us what you think in the comments! And if you have a Midgard fan project underway, or if this inspires you to start one, please let us know. We’d love to see it.

We’re also making a special offer on the Kobold Quarterly Facebook page through August 10: if you Like the page you’ll get a discount code for $5.00 off any purchase of the Midgard Campaign Setting, Midgard Bestiary or Zobeck Gazetteer.

The Midgard Campaign Setting brings to life a dark world of deep magic, with seven regions flavored by the folklore of Central and Eastern Europe plus a heady dose of weird fantasy. Lead designers Wolfgang Baur, Jeff Grubb and Brandon Hodge led the Open Design community in a two-year project to build a sprawling setting supported by adventures and sourcebooks compatible with Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Dungeons & Dragons, AGE System and more.

Midgard is ley line magic and warped alchemical experiments; the Western Waste’s giant, shambling horrors and magic-blasted landscapes; diabolical gnomes and the schemes of immortal Baba Yaga; wild, wind-riding elves and swashbuckling minotaur corsairs; the Mharoti Empire’s lethal assassins and exotic splendors; and the dragon-haunted crags of the icy Northlands.

The Midgard Campaign Setting includes:

• Pathfinder and AGE System rules for gearforged, kobold and minotaur PCs
• 26 new backgrounds, 3 new schools of magic and new specialties for AGE System
• New clerical domains including clockwork, moon, hunger and beer
• More than 50 kingdom write-ups, with new feats and traits for each region of Midgard
• New spells, magical items, and incantations
• New gear and weapons unique to the setting
• Ley line magic and the secrets of the shadow roads

The world is ready. Are you?

Seriously though, there’s enough great stuff in Kobold Quarterly #22 to keep you occupied all summer. Get it in print + PDF or PDF only and you’ll enjoy articles for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, 4th Edition D&D and AGE System. But wait, there’s more: we also have articles for Castles & Crusades and 13th Age! Old school, new school, and everything in between — this issue’s got it.

• The archdevil Barbatos, gatekeeper of Golarion’s Hells by Paizo’s Wes Schneider
• Dragonkin servitors of Midgard’s Mharoti Empire for D&D
• Four monsters from Journeys to the West for C&C
• 13th Age’s Escalation Die mechanic with conversion rules for other RPGs by Rob Heinsoo
• AGE System rules for black powder weapons
• An interview with Pathfinder RPG lead designer Jason Bulmahn

Here’s the full table of contents for this issue:

• An awesome dragon-rider cover by Craig J. Spearing
• Barbatos: Gatekeeper of Golarion’s Hells by Wes Schneider – Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
• Dragonkin by Brian A Liberge – 4th edition D&D
• Monsters of Morphoi by Christina Stiles with Ben McFarland – Castles & Crusades
• Blood Brothers: Rogue Archetype by David Schwartz – Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
• Elven Archer Magic by Charles Lee Carrier and Nicholas Milasich – Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
• Weapons for a new AGE by Rodrigo García Carmona – AGE System
• Dwarven Magical Rings by John E. Ling. Jr. – Pathfinder Roleplaying Game
• Pathfinder Society Guide to Varisia by Alex Greenshields
• Hold ‘Em for Questioning: Interrogation by Jeff Ibach – Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and 4th edition D&D
• The Escalation Die by Rob Heinsoo
• The Scaled Steamhall by Will Doyle – 4th edition D&D
• Game Theories: The GM Influence on Character by Monte Cook
• Howling Tower: Total Party Kill or Total Buzz Kill? by Steve Winter
• Interview with Jason Bulmahn by Jeremy L. C. Jones
• Ask the Kobold by Skip Williams
• Free City of Zobeck: The Void of Veles by Wolfgang Baur
• d20 Monkey by Brian Patterson
• 10′x 10′ Toon by Stan!

Pick up Kobold Quarterly #22 today!

Kobold Quarterly #21 delves into the roles played by the divine in your campaign, featuring David “Zeb” Cook on using mystery cults in your game, Tim and Eileen Connors on soul-shredding clerical dilemmas, Marc Radle’s new shaman base class for Pathfinder RPG, and an ecology of the succubus with new feats, powers and traits for D&D.

KQ #21 also features official Pathfinder Society content, robber knights and vile wizards, new Zobeck and Midgard articles, and alchemists, druids, illusions, and seers for the AGE System – and a sultry pinup cover by Kieran Yanner!

The complete contents are after the jump:

• The Shaman by Marc Radle
• Daughters of Lilith by Sersa Victory
• It’s a Mystery by David “Zeb” Cook
• Clerical Conflicts by Tim & Eileen Connors
• Divine Archetypes by Stefen Styrsky
• A Background in Magic by Rodrigo Garcia Carmona
• Nine Treasures of Deep Midgard by Nicholas Milasich
• Saints of Mavros by Christina Stiles
• The Scriveners of Allain by Brian A. Liberge
• White Tongue, Black Heart by David Schwartz
• The Shadow Lodge Insurgency by Nicholas Gray
• Why No Monotheism? by Steve Winter
• Fun Happens Here: A Conversation with Bill Slavicsek by Jeremy L. C. Jones
• Ask the Kobold by Skip Williams
• Free City of Zobeck: Deadly Tolls and Honest Challenges by Wolfgang Baur
• d20 Monkey by Brian Patterson
• 10′x 10′ Toon by Stan!

Pick up Kobold Quarterly #21 in print or in PDF at the Kobold Store!

As I was scribbling in my purple dragonskin notebook, rejecting and crossing off ideas almost as quickly as I can come up with them, Wolfgang Baur apparently read my mind. That’s the sign of a good game designer, he anticipates your needs before you’ve even identified them….I already know what kind of fantasy game I want to run: an all-dwarves game.

Wolfgang cements that idea into my head with his introduction, which covers the history of dwarves in fiction and mythology, from ancient Egypt to Norse mythology, from Tolkien through today. I’m sold, and there’s plenty to work with.

You can read the whole review, and pick up a copy of the book as a PDF or in print.

Let me just say that this is one well-deserved [Silver ENnie] award, and this ebook should go to the top of your list of purchases. I haven’t written reviews in a while, and I’m still reading through the book, but I was so impressed with what I’ve read so far that I wanted to tell others about it.

… I’m an adventure junkie and a continuing fan of 3.5, so the purchase of this ebook was a no-brainer for me. Luckily, it delivers in spades.

Read the full review on Christina Stiles’ blog, where she discusses “Plague of Shadows” and “Madman at the Bridge” in particular. Or pick up Tales of Zobeck right here.

You no longer need to be a patron to see this award-winning adventure series!

Technically, Zobeck is a setting for 3E D&D, but I’m happy to see fan material for it in any edition. This one is especially nice because he really gets the urban kobold spin, and he has first-hand knowledge of how kobolds fit into the Zobeck setting. Go take a look, and let me know what you think.

Also, the Tome Show has posted another installment in their discussion of Blood of the Gorgon. I haven’t gotten to listen to it yet, but will check it out later today. I think this one includes a segment with one or more patrons. If you like it, please let me know in the forums. If you hate it, please tell the kind folks over at the Tome Show.