Tome Unleashed: Alseid
The Tome Unleashed series fleshes out monsters from the Tome of Beasts, modifying existing monsters to switch things up for your players!
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Raising Our Flag
While we wait to see what the future holds, we move forward with clear-eyed work on a new Core Fantasy tabletop ruleset: available, open, and subscription-free for those who love it—Project Black Flag.Â
Street Eats of Zobeck: Mercantile Districts
This dispatch highlights three up-and-coming chefs in Zobeck’s mercantile districts. While these chefs come from different backgrounds, they highlight the Clockwork City’s role as the melting pot of the Crossroads.
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Haunted Items: Leaping Stag Deck
Haunted items are magical curios inhabited by a soul. This item is a deck of cards that is very good at reading people.
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Skill Challenges for 5E, Part 6
Skill challenges are a great way to bring the excitement of combat to non-combat encounters. In this final installment, find ready-to-run challenges for the busy DM!
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Welcome to Zachery Newbill, social media manager!
Starting today Zachery Newbill joins the adventuring party as the Social Media and Community Manager of Kobold Press!
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TV to Tabletop: Spirited Away
Bring fantastic elements from Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away into your D&D game!
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Red Eels Thieves’ Guild in Messori Harbor
The Red Eels are a proper thieves’ guild. While content to leave most decent folk alone, a hallmark of the guild is that anyone who crosses them gets no second chance.
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Children of Typhon: Spells and Magic Items
Typhon, Father of Monsters, is chained beneath a mountain. See what spells and magic items his children have developed to free him.
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Boss Fights: Black Pudding
Boss monsters are a hallmark of adventure design, but it’s easy for them to be dull. Let’s build a better boss battle!
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From the Ashes: Affordable Spellcare and IRL Beliefs Informing Gameplay
From the Ashes looks at making reincarnation special and strange in your 5E D&D game.
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Old Medicine of the Margreve
The Margreve is the oldest forest in the Crossroads. They say the Margreve is three-quarters location and one-quarter magical beast.
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One Better: Inspiration Aspirations
In current 5E rules, inspiration is a great concept, implemented poorly. Recent One D&D playtest rules take only baby steps to make it more useful. Let’s make a rule worth using at the table.
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Divine Purpose, part 2
Your cleric has a place in their deity’s grand scheme, but finding it might be a journey.
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Monster Weaknesses for Tome of Beasts 3, part 6
When a monster has a weak point—some trick to exploit—a combat encounter has more challenge than just reducing hit points. Here are more examples from Tome of Beasts 3!
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Fireforge Dwarves of Midgard
Fireforge dwarves first appeared in the setting-neutral Tome of Heroes. Now let’s give them a home in Midgard!
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