Kobold Quarterly

Kobold Quarterly was published four times a year and focused on the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game system.{{cite magazine|author=John Baichtal|date=3 April 2008|title=Kobold Quarterly's Fourth Issue Teems With Promise, Gnomes|magazine=WIRED|url=https://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/04/kobold-quarterl/|accessdate=30 November 2009}}{{cite web | url=https://www.blackgate.com/2012/11/03/keep-up-on-fantasy-gaming-with-kolbold-quarterly/ | title=Keep up on Fantasy Gaming with Kobold Quarterly – Black Gate | date=3 November 2012 }} The headquarters of the magazine was in Kirkland, Washington.{{cite web|title=Complete KOBOLD Guide|url=http://www.warehouse23.com/media/CKGGD1_preview.pdf|publisher=Warehouse 23|accessdate=29 November 2015}}

The magazine occupied the gaming market niche once served by the Dungeon and Dragon magazines,{{cite magazine|author=John Baichtal|date=4 January 2008|title=Enter the Kobold|magazine=WIRED|url=https://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/01/enter-the-kobol/|accessdate=30 November 2009}} 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.{{cite web|author=Brian Fitzpatrick|date=24 March 2011|title=Interview: Wolfgang Baur of Kobold Quarterly and Open Design|work=Game Knight Reviews|url=http://www.gameknightreviews.com/2011/03/interview-wolfgang-baur-of-kobold-quarterly-and-open-design/|accessdate=3 June 2011}}

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).{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons: The '00s|publisher=Evil Hat Productions|year=2014| isbn=978-1-61317-087-8}}{{rp|332}} The first issue of the magazine was published in 2007.{{cite web|title=The Coming of the Kobold: 2007-Present|url=http://www.rpg.net/columns/designers-and-dragons/designers-and-dragons3.phtml|work=RPG Net|accessdate=27 September 2015}} 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.{{rp|334}}

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.{{rp|335}} The magazine ended publication with issue #23, Fall 2012.{{cite web|title=Kobold Quarterly Folds, A New Adventure Begins |url=http://www.koboldpress.com/k/announcements14317.php |accessdate=4 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140215030956/http://www.koboldpress.com/k/announcements14317.php |archivedate=15 February 2014 }}

The magazine has won multiple ENnie Awards.{{cite web|title=2009 ENnie Award Winners |work=Gen Con EN World RPG Awards |url=http://www.ennie-awards.com/this_year/results.asp |accessdate=30 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105041112/http://www.ennie-awards.com/this_year/results.asp |archivedate= 5 January 2010 }}

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• {{cite web |url=http://www.koboldquarterly.com/ |title=Kobold Quarterly homepage |website= |publisher= |access-date=2023-02-28 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121125052239/http://www.koboldquarterly.com/ |archive-date=2012-11-25}}
• [https://koboldpress.com/about-2/ Kobold Press - About webpage] (Kobold Quarterly's publisher)

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