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!
Sporting Goods: Give your players a sporting chance with holbagen Read More »
Potion Commotion looks at a few staple potions in the game and plays around with them, offering boosts or limitations to make versions of the classics for all levels of play!
Potion Commotion: Potion of Healing Read More »
When you’re creating a hexcrawl, one of the central tenets is to put a landmark in each hex. You’ll have a bunch of your own ideas. But if you run out of steam, consult the Fifty Landmarks table here for new ideas or inspiration.
50 landmarks to populate your hexcrawl campaign map Read More »
As we continue our tour of Midgard lineages for Tales of the Valiant RPG (on sale now!), we visit a lesser known people of the setting, trollkin. This installment of the series also includes a heritage and a background that trollkin characters (or any character!) might use.
Midgard Monday: Trollkin Lineage and Heritage of Midgard 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 get your players to be more proactive?
Pack Tactics Advice: How can I get my players to be more proactive? Read More »
These tables help you set up a fey forest adventure quickly! Roll 3d8, one for each column, and create as many interesting encounters as you need!
Roll up a random fey forest Read More »
Here’s a full preview of the ettercap, one of the monsters now appearing in the Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault!
Monster Vault Peek: Tales of the Valiant presents . . . ettercap! Read More »
Anyone who’s played a video game RPG in the past decade has likely heard of the Dragon Quest series. Today, we bring even more of its iconic monsters to life as Tales of the Valiant RPG monsters!
More Dragon Quest monsters for your 5E games! Read More »
The Mage Wars that devastated Western Midgard rendered the land nearly uninhabitable. However, this destruction proved a boon to the world’s goblins, who finally found a location where they could dwell without organized efforts to eradicate them.
Midgard Monday: Casimir’s Enchiridion of Monsters talks about dust goblins Read More »
Furiosa premiered over the Memorial Day weekend, and it was full off cool stuff that we turned into magic items!
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Put it in your game! Read More »
It’s convention season, and here’s some gems that are releasing this summer!
Kobold Gift Guide for Con Season! What’s hot inside when it’s hot outside Read More »
Here’s a full preview of the cloud giant, one of the monsters debuting in the Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault!
Monster Vault Preview: Tales of the Valiant presents . . . cloud giant! Read More »
Here’s what’s new in May from Kobold Press!
May 2024 Kobold Roundup Read More »
The Kobold offices are closed today, but we’ll be back tomorrow with more Tales of the Valiant stuff for your game!
Intelligent alien creatures such as aboleths, as well as the occasional mad wizard or capricious deity, enjoy tinkering with creatures to make them more suited for their environments or just as a thought exercise. This article combines two classics: the rust monster and a selection of metallic dragons.
Monster Mix: What happens when you cross a rust monster and a metallic dragon? Read More »
If you’re making your own homebrew game, you’re probably using the standard ToV lineages. And most fantasy games assume the same medieval/renaissance world that makes most of the backgrounds pretty relevant. But heritages offer an opportunity to develop and communicate your world to your players.
Heritage How-to: Write your own Tales of the Valiant RPG heritages! Read More »
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