Kobold Guide to Game Design: Adventures

by Wolfgang Baur, Ed Greenwood, Keith Baker

Start your career in game design off right! Ever wondered what it takes to make it as a freelancer? Want to improve your homebrew adventures? The KOBOLD Guide to Game Design distills years of professional experience into a collection of design wisdom that can improve your game and vastly increase your odds of selling a magazine article, adventure, or complete game design.• Audience and Making the Pitch• Design Tips and Tricks• Writerly Craft• Pacing and Drama• Worldbuilding• Genres from Noir to Arabian and Underdark• City Adventures• And More!This 88-page collection of essays—many previously presented only to patrons of OPEN DESIGN—is now available to the public for the fi rst time. It also collects practical design wisdom from the pages of KOBOLD QUARTERLY magazine.

Genres: Role Playing Games, Game Design, Gaming, Nonfiction

98 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 4, 2010

Reviews

[Andrea D. McCarthage · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as good as I expected. Certainly the advice is very varied, but none of it seems to go beyond the surface level. I feel like this is revered as a staple "how-to" book simply because the competition is lacking.

[Andrew Ragland · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful, but much too D&D/OSR centric in style, approach, and examples.