It’ll be a few more weeks before the print version will be available from Amazon.com (I’ll put a link in the left hand column at that time, no worries), but the Koboldnomicon is now available in PDF from everywhere that sells PDFs of D&D books.
The first (as far as I know) review is up, at RPGNow.
Fortunately, the actual rules and contents of the Koboldnomicon are pretty good. The Kobold Trapsmith prestige class is a logical addition, and I thought a number of the spells were clever. Every section contained more than a few things that I liked, and everything seemed balanced and well-written. Even the things I didn’t care for (such as the kobold sub-races) would probably work fine for someone else’s group and campaign.
(My contributions to the Koboldnomicon, besides the name, are the iconic kobold wizard Wikanby, the Tumble Down Kobolds tribe and a number of spells, including ones that don’t bear Wikanby’s name.)
It got four out of five stars from RPGNow.
A 10-page PDF preview of the Koboldnomicon is now online. None of my stuff, though, which clearly they felt they couldn’t give away for free, since it’s too awesome. 😉
Once upon a time, Jonah and I (and one of our opposite numbers from Newsarama) would literally be the only people covering Comic-Con. No more. Now, with special effects affordable and cheap, and Hollywood saying “wait a sec, these graphic novel thingies are just like scripts and storyboards in one,” and then making movies that then hook more people (back) into comics, everyone is hitting San Diego each year, including the mainstream media:
Build a better Spandex costume, and the world will beat a path to your door.
I thought it only felt like Jenn and I were the only ones not going to Comic-Con in beautiful San Diego. I may have been more right than I thought: Record numbers of people on the convention floor Saturday morning led to the fire marshal shutting down ticket sales at noon.
“Today [Saturday] at about noon we made the decision to stop selling memberships on site, because the fire marshal had concerns we would reach capacity in the building, but we didn’t actually reach capacity,” Comic-Con International’s Director of Marketing David Glanzer told CBR News Saturday night. “We were able to honor people who had pre-registered.
“We work very closely with the fire marshal. It didn’t get to a situation where we had to close sections of the building. We were able to control the flow by stopping on site sales.”
On Friday afternoon, CCI closed down online ticket sales through their Web site.
“It used to be years ago that Saturday was just a huge day, but now the difference between any given day is not that noticeable,” continued Glanzer. “I know people think that one day seems to be far busier than another, but we haven’t noticed that to be true. On Friday, we knew that our sales were doing well online and we had a lot of people in the building, adding that to who would be buying memberships on-site on Friday, so we decided to take our online sales off on Friday.”
Read the full story at CBR News.
At Jonah’s request, I put together an index of all of CBR’s Comic-Con stories.
I’ll be adding to it throughout the weekend, so reload it early and often. While you’re there, click on the ad links, too, just to make everyone happy.
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