The Dungeon Master’s Guide for fifth edition D&D gives a slew of great advice for tackling the role of the Dungeon Master. Being a Dungeon Master means making quick decisions and anticipating the actions of your players at the table, but it also means thinking up vast worlds and creating adventures for your players to […]
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For those of you who missed Gen Con 2015, you can venture over to the Tome Show to find out what happened in various seminars. Here’s what they have to offer for Kobold Press as of this posting. We’ll update this post with additional links as more Kobold Press seminars become available. GenCon 2015 Kobold
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Yesterday, we posted the first part of a two-part interview with Anna Meyer, who created some gorgeous maps for the Southlands Campaign Setting! You can read about (and see) her process in the second part of this interview. What were some of your highlights working on the Southlands maps? The biggest thrill with a project
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Gen Con 2015 has begun! If you want to join the Kobolds for fun and fierce times, we’re at booth #2639! We’re sharing with Legendary Games, offering a delve sure to thrill you with a bit of Mythic Southlands! Look for us right next to Entrepreneur’s Avenue, near the far wall We do have Southlands
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When evil stirs in the Southlands, mighty heroes will arise. Southlands Heroes for 5e is now available in print and PDF at the Kobold Store, Amazon and DriveThruRPG! Demonic voices mutter and howl in the desert. Strange lights appear among the trees in the jungle’s depths; and packs of twisted creatures emerge at night to hunt
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As part of the production work involved with the Southlands project, Anna Meyer created some excellent maps! You can read about (and see) her process in this two-part interview! When did you decide to become a cartographer, and why did you make this choice? I’ve always had a fondness for maps since I was a
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What else might adventurers find in a pickpocket’s pockets when they investigate? You can roll randomly for a result below, or use the handy number provided with each entry to figure out your result on a d12. You can also pick the one that works for the area in which your characters currently linger.
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According to Horus’s priesthood, the bennu bird—also known as “He Who Came Into Being by Himself” and “The Ascending One”—is a self-created being that influenced the creation of the world. Many believe that this outsider forever guards the ba of the Prince of Princes. Nowadays the bennu bird is the stoutest ally of Horus, gathering
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Southlands is an exciting new campaign sourcebook for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, featuring stunning art, maps, and adventure hooks. We asked Southlands artist Fred Fields to walk us through the creation of the title page art… You created a beautiful new piece for the Southlands book. Can you talk a little about your working process
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Cartography by Meshon Cantrill True, I was hired to sail them out past the Witch’s Teeth. Four adventurers looking to earn a name; who was I to throw vinegar on their fancies? I took ’em within a rowboat’s jaunt of the place: the door on the rock. I know as much of the place as
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Artists might find a home in your adventure somewhere, and now you can liven up their belongings with interesting and perhaps inexplicable things. You can roll randomly for a result below, or use the handy number provided with each entry to figure out your result on a d12. You can also pick the one that
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The Southlands – realm of mystery and adventure! Get the PDF now at the Kobold Store and DriveThruRPG. The long-awaited Southlands Campaign Setting has arrived in glorious, gem-like digital form! Within its 300 pages you’ll find vast riches and terrible dangers: cursed tombs and wild spirits, fierce warriors and lost cities, and legendary monsters that prowl,
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The features of this humanoid-headed bird are those of your deceased brother-in-arms. According to the Coffin Texts of Nuria-Natal, the Ba is the ensemble that makes an individual unique and is one of the five aspects of the human soul with the Ren, the Ka, the Sheut, and the Ib. The Nurians believe that the
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After fighting in the Goblinblood Wars for ten years, the dwarf berserker Akina has returned to her home in the Five Kings Mountains. They say you can never go home, and it is proving true for Akina. Accompanied by her monk friend Ondorum, Akina finds that much has happened in ten years and little of
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How many people know that Shippensburg University, here in my home state of Pennsylvania, held week-long D&D camps every summer during the mid-eighties? That’s right, a summer camp for D&D!  Instead of basket weaving and archery, you played Dungeons & Dragons … all week. It was a lot of fun (I attended the last two years, and
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Your adventurers are no stranger to weapons, most likely, and they might encounter weapon racks as they venture through the world. But not all weapon racks are straightforward and, well, dull. You can roll randomly for a result below, or use the handy number provided with each entry to figure out your result on a
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