Kobold Quarterly Looking for AGE Adventures

May 29, 2012

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Kobold Quarterly has put out an open call for adventures for the AGE System to be published in the magazine. The info below appeared in a recent Kobold Courier mailing and is official.

AGE Authors Wanted!

Open Design wants to expand its coverage of the AGE System, to include a second adventure in Kobold Quarterly.  

Query koboldquarterly@gmail.com (with [KQ AGE Query] in the email header) if you have a 2800-4000-word AGE adventure idea suitable for the magazine. Midgard adventures are welcome! Additionally, Open Design needs designers skilled in converting Pathfinder RPG material to AGE. We have 3 adventures needing such attention. Query the email above and include [AGE Conversion] in your email header.


If you’ve been wanting to contribute to Kobold Quarterly, this is a perfect opportunity! All the best.

[Beyond Dragon Age] Star Wars: AGE of Rebellion – The Wookie

April 20, 2012

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Apparently Enrique has gotten inspired by the Force. What has been a bunch of notes for a while have suddenly begun to fly around as draft sections of a conversion document for Star Wars: AGE of Rebellion. We already saw The Scoundrel base class, and now Enrique shows us one of the iconic races of the Star Wars universe, the Wookie, as a background for heroic characters.

While this preview only shows the Wookie background, you can deduce a few things about Enrique’s approach to some of the Star Wars staples and how he intends to deal with those in his conversion (Force sensitivity, I’m looking at you). The background is versatile enough that it can yield good old Chewbacca (Wookie soldier) as well as a variety of Wookie archetypes.

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[Beyond Dragon Age] Star Wars: AGE of Rebellion – The Scoundrel

April 19, 2012

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Regular contributor Enrique, aka NewbieDM, has been threatening to do an AGE System conversion of Star Wars since we both got Set 1. He’s worked on it on and off for a few months, and I’ve very much enjoyed seeing where he’s taking things.

Enrique will be wrapping up his Dragon Age RPG home game based around the plot of Dragon Age: Origins soon, and his group decided they would play Star Wars next. While they have yet to decide which version of Star Wars to use, Enrique went back to his notes and continued doodling away at his conversion. I woke up to find a string of tweets from him on the subject, including what he is finally naming his project: Star Wars: AGE of Rebellion.

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[March Monster Madness] And The 2012 Winner Is…

April 10, 2012

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March Monster Madness 2012 is over. This year I had 10 different monsters to choose from and the contestants did not disappoint. In the end, however, only one could be crowned winner.

Though a few critters really got me cackling with glee, three monsters tugged at my evil GM heartstrings the most: the Reaper, the One-Of-Many-Eyes, and the Flesh Legion.

The One-Of-Many-Eyes filled me with evil nostalgia, for who doesn’t love those floating orbs of multi-ocular death?

The Reaper was deceptive in its lethality until I caught on to its deadly versatility.

The Flesh Legion was just creepy to the core and I know I will have nightmares that will feature it.

So who was the winner?

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The Wyvern: New Dragon Age DLC from Green Ronin

April 4, 2012

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You remember how earlier this year Chris Pramas teased that there would be small DLC (downloadable content) products for the Dragon Age RPG? Well, the first one has just hit the streets!

Creatures of Thedas: The Wyvern is a 5-page product detailing a new creature for the Dragon Age RPG.

Infamous for ferocity, the wyverns of Thedas are legendary to commoner and king alike. Bring these fearsome creatures from the “Mark of the Assassin” video-game DLC to your Dragon Age tabletop RPG campaign with this PDF containing complete statistics, game-world lore, and information on the notorious and rare hallucinogenic liquor concocted from wyvern venom.

The DLC includes information on appearance and behavior, folklore and cultural lore (especially for Orlesians), wyvern poison, tips on incorporating it into play and scaling suggestions. At first glance it looks like a solid and complete package on this one creature, and well worth the price.

I love the format and I can’t wait to see what more we’ll get from the team at Green Ronin down the line.

Go buy it today!

[March Monster Madness] Contest Ends

April 1, 2012

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March Monster Madness: the AGE System Monster Design Challenge has come to an end!

Thanks to all who participated this year. I will be gathering the entries and reading through them. You can find a preliminary list of contestants by perusing the comments to the opening post.

The winner will be posted up on April 11, 2012.

Good luck to all.

[March Monster Madness] The AGE Monster Design Challenge 2

March 6, 2012

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Get ready to channel your inner Dr. Frankenstein as we launch March Monster Madness: the AGE System Monster Design Challenge!

During the month of March we are running the 2nd Annual AGE System Monster Design Challenge.

This year the theme is FREEFORM: create any monster you want for the AGE System! It can be large, it can be small, hairy, spiky, scaly, winged or slithering. It’s up to you! To enter, create your monster, post it to the official thread on the Green Ronin forums, and post a link to your entry in the comments below.

The winner of the AGE Monster Challenge will win a $10 gift certificate to RPGnow/DriveThruRPG.

Contest runs from March 1-31. Voting on the best monster runs from April 2-7. Winners to be announced on April 9.

Start practicing your “It’s Alive!” cry of victory and may the best demiurge win.

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Esoterica of Thedas Volumes 1, 2 and 3

February 23, 2012

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We have posted before about the amazing fan work done by a group of Australian Dragon Age fans who created a series of books known as the Esoterica of Thedas. Since posting the initial links, they have finished all three volumes and revised them, then moved the files to a different location. I have received a number of emails about the broken links so I went ahead and contacted them to get new links for you.

You can now download all three volumes of the Esoterica of Thedas from these links below. Enjoy them for the great labor of love they are and for how much more of Thedas they bring to the Dragon Age RPG. All links are to PDF files.

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Dragon Age RPG Set 3 Open Playtest

February 21, 2012

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Green Ronin has now released the Open Playtest document for the Dragon Age RPG Set 3, covering levels of play from 11 to 20. Having gotten a great response to their open playtest of Set 2, and knowing the limitations of licensed material, they have gone ahead and released a good amount of the material to be featured in the third and last set of the Dragon Age RPG. To quote their post:

If we could publish Set 3 tomorrow, we’d do it. Because we can’t, because it’s not ready, we’re repeating what we did for Set 2 and stress testing this new set by getting your input on it. This is our open public beta test of many of the game-mechanical aspects of Set 3, including rules for advancing Player Characters all the way to level 20!

Inside you’ll find an assortment of new components for the Dragon Age RPG, from talents to specializations, from spells to monsters. This all represents a sizable portion of the Set 3 manuscript—but still only a portion. So don’t fret if you something you were looking forward to in Set 3 isn’t in here—we’ve got a few surprises in store.

Remember, please, that only playtest responses emailed to the address in the package, with signed release forms, can be considered. We can’t count forum posts, blog posts, tweets, or similar messages as official playtest feedback. We’d appreciate it if you sent your serious critiques to us directly and remember that this is a work in progress.

So head over to Green Ronin and download the Set 3 Open Playtest today and start leveling up!

[Beyond Dragon Age] Mystara Adversary Compendium I

February 2, 2012

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Dragon Age Oracle collaborator and AGE System wiz Byron Molix hits it out of the park once more with his new project, the  for AGE.

You will remember that Byron is the author of Mystara: The Known World, a campaign setting that brings the classic D&D world to the AGE System. Now Byron unleashes a collection of 112 classic creatures perfect for the Mystara setting or any fantasy world. The creatures in the compendium follow the alternate rules set up in the Mystara campaign document, but they can be easily converted back to “default” AGE with very little adjusting.

Follow the link below, download your copy of the Mystara Adversary Compendium I, and bring a classic adventure-gaming monster back to your table today. My favorite? Two words: porcine orcs!

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