Forestry Service: Steal this monster! (and make your own with this template)
Try this new template on Beasts and Monstrosities that hail from the Old Margreve.
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Midgard Monday: Ironcrags heritages of Upper and Lower Nordmansch
Diverse in their beliefs and practices, cults have emerged in every corner of Midgard. However, in a land filled with unstable environments, political conflict, and ancient mystical forces, the Northlands of Midgard is ripe for exploring the dynamics of cults in your campaigns.
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Rider Monsters: beef up your lich boss with a helpful, glowy pal
Extraordinarily powerful creatures possess exploitable weaknesses. Some cultivate relationships with less powerful creatures to help offset those weaknesses. These lesser beings are called “rider monsters,” and they add a wrinkle in combats against boss monsters.
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Run a Campaign Like a Fiction Author, part 2
Sometimes the dice get in the way of telling a terrific story. But they don’t have to. You can bend the rules to your will, and even break them from time to time, to achieve a campaign that feels more like a novel.
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Ask Jiro! Tales of the Valiant game answers sneak up on you
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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Forestry Service: Top 5 Margreve destinations your PCs should visit on spring break
See the top 5 spots to visit in the Margreve and what troubles you might find when you get there!
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Midgard Monday: equip your adventurer with wondrous tools used by the Ironcrag dwarves!
The Free City of Zobeck gets all the worldly acclaim for clockwork wonders and stream powered miracles. However, under the mountain in the Free Cantons of the Ironcrags, dwarven artificers and mechanists craft cunning devices that are as much mechanical as arcane.
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Hometown Hazards. What you get up to in the cloud heritage
Adventures are usually about the events taking the heroes away from home. But this series explores possibilities when taking a character back home. What troubles lurk in a PC’s hometown? What manner of curse, bogeyman, disease, or nuisance was part of their upbringing? How does it now become part of the party’s greater story?
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Monster Mix: What if pegasi and unicorns were prehistoric animals?
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. Let’s get in on the action.
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Forestry Service: Try these new Primordial spells of the Old Margreve
In this article we bring you a new faction operating in The Old Margreve—a vengeful crew of pyromancers hellbent on bringing the heat.
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Midgard Monday: Ironcrags heritages of Wintersheim and Grisal
Diverse in their beliefs and practices, cults have emerged in every corner of Midgard. However, in a land filled with unstable environments, political conflict, and ancient mystical forces, the Northlands of Midgard is ripe for exploring the dynamics of cults in your campaigns.
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Game Changer—Advice for new GMs! How do I bring kids into my game with adults?
Time for the Kobold Press advice column! This month, our resident GMing expert, Brian Suskind, talks about bringing kids into your game!
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Ye Olde West: a genre exploration of wild west fantasy storytelling in roleplaying games
Grab your six-shooters and dust off your boots as we explore different ways to bring elements of the Wild West genre into your fantasy TTRPG experience.
Forestry Service: The Mar’Greived, mercenaries of the Forest
In this article we bring you a new faction operating in The Old Margreve—a vengeful crew of pyromancers hellbent on bringing the heat.
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Midgard Monday: Gunpowder Secrets of the Ironcrag Dwarves!
As mercenary companies of dwarves sally forth each year to fight for one of the Seven Cities to the south, they bring with them the traditional tools of war. And a few from the Kubourg Canton also bring black powder mining tools and weapons. These black powder tools are hardly refined armaments. But they can be used to spring a trap, draw attention, or damage an objective in a spectacular way.
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Design diary for the new adventure, Magnificence in Silver
Magnifcience in Silver is the latest Tales of the Valiant adventure to appear in the Kobold store. We asked veteran designer Scott Moore to give us a look into his process when he was writing this adventure about a silver dragon and the goblins around her.
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