Monster Vault Preview: Tales of the Valiant Wight
Here’s a full preview of the wight, one of the monsters debuting in the Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault, coming later this year!
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Staff Picks: Campaign Builder Cities & Towns Map Folio is on sale now!
Cities and towns are great places to set lots of terrific adventures, and they sometimes wind up as side notes in campaigns, places to cash in treasure, rest in comfort and safety, and purchase supplies for the next adventure “out there.” Hopefully, these maps give GMs inspiration for running encounters right in the middle of the crowds.
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Blowing Up Midgard, part 3, Morgau Must Feed
In this (non-canonical) series, we’ll create outlines for mega-campaigns set in Midgard. Each tier will contain an outline of major events, ending by blowing up a setting-wide powderkeg that’s been sputtering for years. This time: What if the vampire, Lucan, marches on Midgard?
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Tome Unrestricted: Tigebra
Change up monsters from Tome of Beasts 3 to surprise your players and fit your campaign!
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The Random GM: the Quick Work table to create an NPC dwarf
You tossed an dwarf into the background of a scene and now one of your players wants to talk to them. You did not prepare for this. DON’T PANIC. There’s a table for this.
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Living Locations 6: Echo House will sing your players to their doom
This series introduces living locations: places that possess a primitive sentience, personality, and awareness. This time: an example, Echo House.
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To Fimbulwinter, or not to Fimbulwinter
Kobold Press has crafted the perfect blend of story inspiration and GM freedom with a concept they’ve dubbed “powder kegs.” These tantalizing story elements, often just one-liners, leave me brimming with questions and fuel my creative engine.
Aptly named, these powder kegs only need a single sentence to explode an idea into a full-blown adventure, encounter, or even campaign.
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Midgard Monday: Getting the warband together, part 2
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.
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Good Riddance, part 2: Snakes alive! Couatls become the bad guy
Couatls are good-aligned monsters that appear in many monster books. But when do you use them? Let’s look at some ways to make couatls antagonists!
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The Random GM: the Quick Work table to create an NPC elf
You tossed an elf into the background of a scene and now one of your players wants to talk to them. You did not prepare for this. DON’T PANIC. There’s a table for this situation.
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Potion Commotion: Be an even BIGGER damn hero with potion of heroism variants
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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Spicy takes on Dune 2 for your game
The 2024 movie Dune: Part Two is a sequel to the 2021 part one of the film, and is based on Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel and its sequels. The film takes place in the far future but there are creatures, items, and aspects that can be wondrous with a little application for fantasy RPGs.
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Blowing Up Midgard, part 2. Aboleths Rising
In this (non-canonical) series, we’ll create outlines for mega-campaigns set in Midgard. Each tier will contain an outline of major events, ending by blowing up a setting-wide powderkeg that’s been sputtering for years. This time: What if the aboleths rose again?
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Kobold Gift Guide for March—Game Master’s Day!
March is a time to celebrate your GM. Our Kobold Gift Guide has some real winners to tell your GM how much you appreciate them!
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Make your Scarlet Citadel (or any adventure) more amusing with trick magic items
In Scarlet Citadel, there’s a wizard who might sell you some magic items. And those magic items might be a little . . . off.
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Isekai’d, part 5: Which genre of isekai will you play?
You’re convinced. You want to try isekai in tabletop. Yes! But which genre of isekai are you aiming for?
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