Tales of the Valiant Game Master’s Guide is on sale!
The Tales of the Valiant Game Master’s Guide is on sale!
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Midgard Monday: Pilgrimages of Midgard visit the Seat of Mavros
Pilgrims cross rivers and mountains, brave war zones and bandit attacks to feel the touch of the divine. See why (and how!) worshippers of the war god visit the storied Seat of Mavros!
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Kobold Press Welcomes Brian Suskind to the Warrens
Kobold Press welcomes Brian Suskind to the Warrens as a new, full-time game designer!
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Your Invitation to the Scouting Party!
Kobold Press announces the launch of a new long-form YouTube series called Scouting Party. This series provides viewers with an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the content inside Kobold Press Kickstarter books, featuring the writers, designers, and other creative minds.
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Ask Jiro! Learn about disoriented, frenzy, and why we made some controversial choices
Ask Jiro clarifies Tales of the Valiant RPG rules, answers mechanics questions, and catches out errata uncovered by the ToV community!
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Magical Meals turn your dungeon crawl into a feast!
A mysterious figure known only as the Culinomancer, is a widely travelled individual of renowned skill. Their stated purpose? To create delicious and magical food from every known monster that can be considered edible.
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Labyrinth Monday: The Void corrupts all it touches
The magical gifts and artifacts that seep from the wyrd depths of the Void are primordial and powerful, but always come with a price . . . a price as deep and cold as the Void itself. Here are some dangerous magical weapons and items that PCs might find in a Void cultist’s treasure room.
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Howling Tower: What Are Experience Points?
The mechanical benefits of gaining a level in the Tales of the Valiant RPG are obvious: deadlier ways to wield weapons, more powerful spells, and more. The not-so-obvious element is that experience points also represent the adventurer’s growing understanding of the world and its threats.Â
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State of Play: Kobold Press Issues the No AI Pledge
Both as the Kobold Press CEO and as a game designer, I’m pleased to say that Kobold Press’s policy on AI is simple and direct: We don’t use generative AI art, we don’t use AI to generate text for our game design, and we don’t believe that AI is magical pixie dust that makes your tabletop games better.
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Planar Boutiques, part 5: buy a trip into the Void
From afar, the Vertical Gardens resembles a strangely uniform patch of greenery on the steep face of the World Tree’s trunk. Moving closer reveals row after row of gravity-defying, beautiful plants.
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Tales of the Valiant vs D&D: New game+
D&D 2024 launches today! How does Tales of the Valiant compare? Let’s talk about it.
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Terrifying Temples: The hidden temple of Mammon
Deep beneath the Warrens and Cartways of the Free City of Zobeck, on the border of the underground kingdoms, a dark temple squats, dedicated to the god of greed and betrayal, the evil god Mammon.
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Hungry Undead: a quick bite of ghoul-ash
While the lore for many undead speak to a certain craving, there are few mechanical implications for their hunger. By adding game mechanics to these undead, the Tales of the Valiant framework offers more nuanced foes to challenge the players—but all the more so, to tell more interesting tales for their valiant heroes.
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Sporting Goods: Bash and crash your way through a game of Spike-Rush!
While popular medieval pastimes like jousting and archery often feature in campaign settings and adventures, other organized sports barely rate a mention. It can be a fun change of pace to get PCs involved in a game within the game!
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New Figures of Wondrous Power: the brass monkey and the granite goose
Try these new figurines of wondrous power for your Tales of the Valiant or 5E game!
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Traps a Mad Wizard Must Have Designed, part 3
The traps described here are loosely based on scenes from famous TV shows and movies. Some details have been left vague to make them easier to add to your existing campaign.
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