| Kobold Quarterly | |
| Frequency: | Quarterly |
| Publisher: | Open Design/Kobold Press |
| Founder: | Wolfgang Baur |
| Country: | USA |
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Kobold Quarterly was a roleplaying game magazine created by Wolfgang Baur and published by Open Design LLC.
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]
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] 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]
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] The magazine ended publication with issue #23, Fall 2012.[8]
The magazine has won multiple ENnie Awards.[9]