Good Riddance! Part 5: Where angels don’t fear to tread
The pinnacle of good monsters might just be angels. So let’s drag them down into making good antagonists instead!
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Roll up a mountaintop experience for your PCs
Many quests in fantasy games involve ascending a mountain top to find a mystic artifact or explore an ancient temple. The ending is sure to be exciting, but what about the travel itself? These tables help you set up a mountaintop experience adventure!
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Planar Boutiques, part 2: a plant nursery in the World Tree
From afar, the Vertical Gardens resembles a strangely uniform patch of greenery on the steep face of the World Tree’s trunk. Moving closer reveals row after row of gravity-defying, beautiful plants.
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Magic Items in card form
Magic items don’t have to be just magical swords, armor, wands and rings. They can also come in the form of magical cards. Add these card-based magical items to your game to reward (or bedevil) players at the table.
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Midgard Monday: Casimir’s Enchiridion of Monsters talks about kobolds
There are few places one can travel around or under Midgard without encountering kobolds. These wyrmchildren have adapted to—or adopted—habitats in shade and shadow to account for their inability to adjust to sunlight.
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Scouting downtime activity rules for the Tales of the Valiant game
Near the village of Redtower is the birch forest known as the White Woods. Scout it, or any geography, using the Tales of the Valiant downtime rules for scouting!
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Sporting Goods: Give your players a sporting chance with holbagen
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!
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Potion Commotion: Potion of Healing
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!
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50 landmarks to populate your hexcrawl campaign map
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.
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Midgard Monday: Trollkin Lineage and Heritage of Midgard
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.
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Pack Tactics Advice: How can I get my players to be more proactive?
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?
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Roll up a random fey forest
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!
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Monster Vault Peek: Tales of the Valiant presents . . . ettercap!
Here’s a full preview of the ettercap, one of the monsters now appearing in the Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault!
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More Dragon Quest monsters for your 5E games!
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!
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Midgard Monday: Casimir’s Enchiridion of Monsters talks about dust goblins
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.
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Put it in your game!
Furiosa premiered over the Memorial Day weekend, and it was full off cool stuff that we turned into magic items!
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