The season of war is the tradition of the Septime Cities. They fight each other, and they fight whoever threatens. The Mharoti Empire is one of those ever-present threats, gathering like storm clouds on the horizon. This series will help a GM run a campaign to explore the fight to free the Illyrian marches along the eastern border of the Seven Cities.
Midgard Monday: Getting the warband together, part 5 Read More »
Every GM is different, but a successful gaming session depends on striking a balance between planning and adapting in the moment. Some GMs plan for hours, and fill pages of notes to ensure that even if their PCs take a wrong turn, there’s a solution just around the bend. Others rely on improv and unique
Maximize Your Dungeon Planning: Dungeons & Ruins Dungeon Tracker Read More »
A crack team of Kobold Press regulars, each with their own perspective, answers questions on how to play and run a better game. This month: how can you play better to help your GM enjoy the game?
Pack Tactics Advice: How can I play better to make things easier for my GM? Read More »
The Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins Treasures Preview contains meaty, applicable info on making treasure meaningful for your players. Here’s a first look at some of the advice within!
What a treasure! The Dungeons & Ruins treasure preview keeps on giving Read More »
Here’s a full preview of the gray ooze, one of the monsters debuting in the Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault, coming later this year!
Monster Vault Preview: Tales of the Valiant presents . . . the gray ooze Read More »
Over on the Kobold Press Discord server, the fans have spoken! They want to see more of the monk class! The two pages here give you the beginnings of the class and the progression table for all 20 levels.
ToV Tuesday! Monk excerpt from the Tales of the Valiant Player’s Guide Read More »
In this (non-canonical) series, we’ll create outlines for mega-campaigns set in Midgard. Each contains an outline of major events that blows up a setting-wide powderkeg that’s been sputtering for years. This time: The Master of Demon Mountain makes his escape.
Blowing Up Midgard, part 6, The bindings of Demon Mountain break! Read More »
This Friday, we’re diving into the Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins Preview PDF to highlight some of the Traps and Hazards in a quick, digital rollable generator.
Change up monsters from Tome of Beasts 3 to surprise your players and fit your campaign!
Tome Unrestricted: Tatzelwurm Read More »
This excerpt from the upcoming book from Kobold Press, Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins, shows you the framework used to describe dungeons to help you define your creations. It includes some exotic elemental dungeons you can create for your players!
Dungeons & Ruins Spotlight: Use dungeon themes in your dungeon creations Read More »
Here’s a full preview of the mimic, one of the monsters debuting in the Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault, coming later this year!
Monster Vault Preview: Tales of the Valiant presents . . . the mimic Read More »
To accompany the launch of Tales of the Valiant, Kobold Press has cooked up the Valiant 6, our iconic characters. Here are images and downloadable PDFs of 4th-level PCs ready for action. Use them to help new people to your game or as a resource for conventions and store play!
ToV Tuesday: The Valiant 6 arrive! Bring the action home to your games Read More »
In this (non-canonical) series, we’ll create outlines for mega-campaigns set in Midgard. Each contains an outline of major events that blows up a setting-wide powderkeg that’s been sputtering for years. This time: The Master of Demon Mountain makes his escape.
Blowing Up Midgard, part 5, The bindings of Demon Mountain bend Read More »
No matter where you’re at in the life cycle of being a game master, at some point in your planning and creative process, you’re going to need help—especially if you want to raise the stakes for your players and keep things interesting.
The Right Tools for the Job Read More »
Unicorns are one of the most recognizable creatures in fantasy, but because they’re good-aligned, PCs almost never fight them. Unicorns have been depicted as healers, nature guardians, or free spirits of the wild that follow their own call. In almost all stories, unicorns are extremely rare and avoid civilization. So how do you make them the enemy?
Good Riddance! Part 3: One of a kind antagonists—make the unicorn the bad guy Read More »
The Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins Preview contains a LOT of info on traps, and this is a great first look at the loving detail we have laden onto traps in Tales of the Valiant. Check out sample traps from the preview!
It’s a trap! The Dungeons & Ruins preview falls on an unsuspecting world Read More »
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