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Harbingers of the Yawning Void: Cult Activities and Adventure Hooks, Part 3

By Jeff Lee / July 30, 2021 / Articles, Demon Cults & Secret Societies

LEVELS 10–12 The Cursed Madstone. While cities have streets lined with temples and assorted apothecaries and doctors to deal with sickness, in rural areas and borderland settlements, those not lucky enough to have a healer in residence must rely on itinerant clergy or other wandering healers to come through. Those without clerical magic rely on […]

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Dungeon Tables: Random Encounters in Cities

By Sarah Madsen / July 28, 2021 / Articles, Dungeon Tables

Cities 2d20 Encounter 2 A servant of the vine elf (see Creature Codex) drinking at the local tavern, night after night. He isn’t a problem immediately, but the longer he is there, the more unhappy the townsfolk become. 3 2d4 bandits (75%) or 2d4 bandits and a bandit captain, emerging from the shadows to shake

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Trapmaster: Traps That Aren’t

By Greg Marks / July 26, 2021 / Articles, Trapmaster

So how do you convince PCs to follow specific paths in your dungeon or during an encounter or to bunch closely for those few big spells or for an ambush by making the characters think there is a trap when there isn’t? In particular, how can your monsters create the appearance of a trap quickly

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Into the Wilderness: Random Encounters

By Basheer Ghouse / July 23, 2021 / Articles, Into the Wilderness

However, they can also bog down pacing and damage that verisimilitude just as easily. As such, you want to ensure that your random encounters are making your wilderness a more vibrant, interesting place to adventure in. Your random encounters should accomplish some of the following: Save you time Save you work Push characters toward interesting

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Ratatosk: New Squirrel-Folk Variants (Part One)

By Brian Suskind / July 21, 2021 / Articles, Ratatosk

With the knowledge of the planes quite literally at their claw-tips, it comes as no surprise that ratatosk have a wide variety of skills and abilities. Citizens of the World Tree The ratatosk presented in the Tome of Beasts represents a squirrel-folk trained to travel the pathways of Yggdrasil and is the one most often

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Tome Unbound: Graveyard Dragon

By Mike Welham / July 19, 2021 / Articles, Tome Unbound

Frightful Presence. Each creature of the graveyard dragon’s choice that is within 60 feet of the dragon and aware of it must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on

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Saints of Midgard: St. Castillius of the Iron Rod

By Phillip Larwood / July 16, 2021 / Articles, Saints of Midgard

Saint Castillius of the Iron Rod Origins. A defining trait of many saints is an act of sacrifice or martyrdom in the name of their beliefs. One saint who exemplifies this trait is St. Castillius, a humble man of great fortitude and faith in the goddess Lada. Castillius was a low-ranking cleric of Lada’s clergy,

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Play with Class: Play a Perfect Paladin

By Celeste Conowitch / July 14, 2021 / Articles, Play with Class

Paladins have been around for the majority of the game’s history. These holy warriors embody the knight in shining armor archetype. Paladins are an incredibly satisfying class to play because they deal massive amounts of damage without being too overwhelmingly complicated to play. Paladins also make an excellent choice for a new player because they

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Rogue’s Gallery: Zarkut Baros

By Kelly Pawlik / July 12, 2021 / Articles, Rogue's Gallery

From Fisher to Favored. Zarkut grew up in poverty on the docks of Droisha where he and his brothers fished for bream and octopus in their family’s well-patched rowboat. They managed to bring in enough for the dinner table, but there was rarely extra to take to market. Life was drudgery with little hope for

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Kobold Dispatch: July Edition

By Thomas M. Reid / July 9, 2021 / Articles, Kobold Dispatch

We are knee-deep in summer right now, which normally means it’s also convention season. With the global pandemic still “A Thing,” the whole convention circuit is taking a little bit different form this year. There are still plenty of in-person shows going on, but a lot of cons have either added—or completely shifted to—a virtual

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Ratatosk: Three Adventure Seeds

By Brian Suskind / July 7, 2021 / Articles, Ratatosk

Listed below are but a few possibilities for adventures that feature the squirrel-folk. A Gremlin in the Works (Blood Kingdom) Sabotage rocks the construction site of the new Blood Cathedral to Marena in Varshava. Built upon the razed site of an older temple to Wotan, the new cathedral symbolizes the power of the Blood Kingdom.

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From the Deck of a Sandship: Of Ne’er-Do-Wells and the Roadrunner

By Heleen and Andrew Durston with Ben McFarland / July 5, 2021 / Articles, From the Deck of a Sandship

Brigands and their Tactics This dance of mongoose and viper has crossed the sands for ages. The raiders utilize a variety of tactics and methods suiting their skills and preferred environments. Here we present a few, so one may adopt them or plan to defend against them. Method: Blitzers Description. The simplest form of robbery

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Scarlet Citadel Wallpapers

By Kobold Staff / July 2, 2021 / Articles, Wallpapers

It’s a new month, and everyone’s gaming! So here’s a delve-tastic set of wallpapers for your computer, your smartphone, or whatever electronic device you’ve got. This month, we’ve got a piece from Scarlet Citadel (artist Egil Thompson). Let’s go light up the shadows, adventurers! Please, click on the image you want to download to expand it into

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Dungeon Tables: Random Encounters in Swamps

By Sarah Madsen / June 30, 2021 / Articles, Dungeon Tables

Swamp/Marsh/Bog 2d20 Encounter 2 1d4+1 viirets (see Tome of Beasts 2), feasting on a diseased tree. They are not aggressive to the party unless attacked—but if a party member is currently suffering from disease of any kind, the viirets target them. 3 A mass of 2d4 putrid haunts (see Tome of Beasts) lying in the

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Trapmaster: Location, Location, Location

By Greg Marks / June 28, 2021 / Articles, Trapmaster

So instead, what if we look at traps that move the victim instead of trying to keep them in the same place. It’s a lot harder to predict where you don’t want to be if the danger itself, or the victim, are on the move. There is also something inherently more exciting—and often more comedic

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Heralds of the Yawning Void: More Dangers from the Darkness

By Jeff Lee / June 25, 2021 / Articles, Demon Cults & Secret Societies

Curse of Dissipation To enact this curse, the Harbingers will conduct a ritual to affect a thing or place already tainted by the Void—the lair of a creature associated with the Void, a battleground where Void spells were cast, or a spellbook containing Void magic—to direct the taint in a specific fashion. The curse afflicts

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