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The Far Side of the Table: Death at the Table—How Do We Prepare for It?

By Jacob Huebsch / March 29, 2019 / Articles, The Far Side of the Table

Rummaging through the worn backpack, Strass pulled out and counted each potion of mind-shielding—three remained. Sharing a knowing glance with his friends, Strass passed out the potions: first to Kara, next Azreal, and then he motioned for Val to take one, but the rogue waved it away. Quaffing their remaining potions, the heroes prepared to […]

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The Sorcery Stop: Slime (Is On Your Side)

By GM Lent / March 27, 2019 / Articles, The Sorcery Stop

Magic is the lifeblood of fantasy. Arguably the dividing line between fantasy and other types of fiction, magic can be strange, mysterious, frightening, comical, or anything in between. And if you’re looking to explore the applications of magic in a fantasy roleplaying campaign, you want to visit the Sorcery Stop!

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Tome of Beasts: Fraughashar

By Kobold Staff / March 25, 2019 / Articles

This slight creature resembles a goblin, but its blue skin and the icicles hanging from the tip of its long nose speak to the chilling truth. The fraughashar are a race of short, tricky, and cruel fey who inhabit cold mountainous regions. Fraughashar have light blue skin, short pointed ears, and needlelike teeth. Delighting in

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Warlock’s Apprentice: Amidst the Dust

By Dan Dillon / March 22, 2019 / Articles, Warlock's Apprentice

Midgard’s Western Wastes are a wound that will never heal, festering in the wake of the Great Mage Wars. Fine dust chokes the blasted landscape, swirling across dunes, craters, and ruins held in the grip of deadly unpredictable magic. Empires lay buried in the wasteland’s dust, and beneath even those remains, echoes of lost Ankeshel

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Inside the Kobold Mines: Courts of the Shadow Fey (Part 2)

By Lou Anders / March 20, 2019 / Articles, Preview

I chatted with co-designer Dan Dillon about his work bringing Courts of the Shadow Fey to 5th Edition, and naturally, we ended up talking about Midgard-in-general quite a bit too. Lou: So this is a 4th Edition product—that was quite celebrated when it came out—now updated and significantly expanded for 5th Edition. What were some

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Tome of Beasts: Tophet

By Kobold Staff / March 18, 2019 / Articles

An enormous bronze and iron statue filled with fire towers above the ring of chanting, frenzied worshipers. Tophets are used by worshipers of fire gods, who toss sacrifices into their flaming maws to incinerate them. A tophet has a large opening in the front where the flames can be seen; sometimes this is an enormous

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Memoirs of a Lich: Evocation

By Kobold Staff / March 15, 2019 / Articles, Memoirs of a Lich

Dear Osvaud, This is Osvaud. I let myself start with illusion (colloquially known as the best school of magic) and then gave myself some time off after the whole mental breakdown after conversion thing. Well then, I guess I’ll move on with my least favorite school of magic… evocation.

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My Hero Contest: Winner

By Kobold Staff / March 13, 2019 / Articles, Contest

And the Winner Is…! Drogas Greycastle: Half-orc paladin of Lathander. Intended to avenge his fallen wife, instead saved the world. His teenage daughter’s a blood hunter—it’s complicated.

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Now Available: Courts of the Shadow Fey for 5th Edition

By Kobold Staff / March 11, 2019 / Announcements, Articles

Intrigue & Adventure in the Shadow Realm! Courts of the Shadow Fey is a 5th Edition planar adventure for 7th- to 10th-level characters. The Free City of Zobeck has thrived since overthrowing the tyrannical Stross family. But an ancient bargain gives the Queen of Night and Magic a claim to the city—and now the shadow

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Warlock’s Apprentice: Dread Spawn of the Wasted West

By Kelly Pawlik / March 8, 2019 / Articles, Warlock's Apprentice

The Wasted West is known to be host to myriad dangers, from the tribes of dust goblins to vicious sentient plants to the ravening undead that seem to be everywhere. Best known of this region’s hazards, however, are the Dread Walkers, the alien Great Old Ones summoned in the final days of the Great Mage

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Congratulations New D&D Team Member Dan Dillon

By Kobold Staff / March 5, 2019 / Announcements, Articles

After years of heroic labor in the Kobold mines, 5th Edition designer Dan Dillon has moved on to a much bigger, shinier mine—Wizards of the Coast—where it’s just been announced that he’s joined the D&D team!

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Midgard Heroes: Circle of the Stones

By Kobold Staff / March 4, 2019 / Articles, Midgard

The druids of the Northlands tend to more than the land. Some see to the health of the spirits. Druids of the Circle of the Stones build immense circles of standing stones where they commune with both the spirits of the land and the souls of the departed.

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My Hero Contest: Finalists

By Kobold Staff / March 1, 2019 / Articles, Contest

You told us about your characters! What a blast. Thank you all for submitting to our My Hero contest. It was a ton of fun to read all your characters (whether PC or NPC) and throw them all in the virtual fight machines of our minds to duke it out. Ultimately, five stood victorious, surviving

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Inside the Kobold Mines: Courts of the Shadow Fey

By Lou Anders / February 27, 2019 / Articles, Preview

There are a lot of things I love about Midgard. Whether it’s the beer domain clerics, Per-Bastet the City of Cats, the Kobold Ghetto in Zobeck, or the Margreve Forest, there are so so many brilliant aspects of the world that make me go “wow” and secure Midgard’s place as my hands-down favorite campaign setting.

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Welcome to Midgard: Freyr and Freyja

By Kobold Staff / February 25, 2019 / Articles, Midgard

Twin Gods of Passion, Fertility, Magic, and the Living World, Lord and Lady of the Vanir, Gods of Beauty, Patron of Farmers and Patroness of Shield Maidens, the Twins of Wine

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Warlock’s Apprentice: Debris of the Great Mage Wars

By Ben McFarland / February 20, 2019 / Articles, Warlock's Apprentice

The departure of the elves and the resulting conflict shaped Central Midgard in fundamental ways. At its core, the Great Mage Wars rise out of the hubris of the Fulgurate Society and leave behind a monument to humanity’s capability for destructive spite.

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