Valiant Design Diary #4
Celeste Conowitch talks about design decisions and changes for the ToV Preview, now available at our Kickstarter page!
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Valiant Friday: Playtest Packet #3 Design Diary
Wolfgang Baur talks about design decisions for Playtest Packet #3, Monsters!
Valiant Friday Arrives!
Playtest Packet #3, Monsters is in final review and we look forward to letting you sink your teeth into it and tell us how it tastes.
Heating Up at the Foundry
Instead of VTT support happening after the game launch later this year, the Foundry VTT team is already hard at work. Take a look!
Introducing Players to Roleplaying Games: Making New GMs
No matter how you got to be a GM, you probably want to pass it on. Just as you’ve taught new players how to play, you can help some of them realize the joy of being a GM.
Introducing Players to Roleplaying Games: Teaching Online
Discord Brings People Together The first thing technology can help you with is in finding people for your gaming group. Discord is a fantastic resource for finding new players. Discord is a video, voice, and text messaging social media platform. There, you create a server, which is a set of chat rooms and voice channels …
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The Far Side of the Table: Slew of Ones
Slew of Ones Far beyond the hand drawn maps, snacks, drinks, and miniatures there towers a grand screen, littered with secret notes and diabolical schemes. This article is designed to break down decisions GMs often encounter while running their adventures as well as provide amazing ideas to showcase at your own games. Sharing my own …
Tournaments: The Arcane Masters
Magic is often seen as a dangerous but controlled study. Those who learn the art of spellcasting and who devote themselves to the arcane craft are seen as scholarly. And indeed, many mages come together in colleges to share their experience and expertise, training a new generation of magic users in controlling and harnessing the …
Grand Duchy: Clerical Adventurers
Clerics, priests, and holy officers willing to join adventuring parties are, quite literally, cut from a different cloth than their brethren. In the Grand Duchy, most who heed a calling to a religious vocation take comfort and shelter within a tight-knit community. Even those who do good works in the broader community return each evening …
Tournaments: The King and Queen of Sharps
You can never trust the faces presented to you in the twisted alleys or on the colorful promenades of the city. The smiling merchant might be weighting the scales, the richly dressed woman might live in a mean little room, and the harmless beggar may be nothing of the sort. If you know what to …
Collection of Curiosities: The Herbalist’s Garden
Aside from the usual herbs and plants you might find growing in an herbalist’s garden, you could also stumble (literally) across some unusual and potentially nasty surprises. Whether the adventurers are dealing with an herbalist or simply racing through a community after a vile creature, the herbalist’s garden can provide you with some unexpected fun …
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New Hero Lab Files Available!
Southlands Bestiary Hero Lab files are waiting to fill your world with over 90 new monsters, perfect for adventures in sprawling jungles and desert empires. From sphinx and swamp adders to genies and golems, the Southlands Bestiary is an indispensable companion to the Southlands Campaign Setting. Pick up the Southlands Bestiary Hero Lab package today …
Grand Duchy: Societies of Yarila and Porevit
The long-lived elfmarked of the Grand Duchy have long venerated the Fair Gods, Father Forest and Mother Field. Not surprisingly, an organized religion with such a long history has developed within it a large number of factions—priestly orders and secret societies. In fact, the farther one goes from the heart of the faith, the Twinned …
Collection of Curiosities: Prizes from the Roving Festival
Games of chance are not uncommon at organized wandering festivals, which might also put unusual creatures such as mermaids and manticores on display; provide new and unusual food and drink for imbibing, and so much more. Sometimes, though, adventurers walk away with more than they might expect when they win a prize. You can roll …
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April 2016 Kobold Press Calendar Wallpapers
Now that April 1st shenanigans are behind us for another year, we have new wallpapers for you to add to your computer, smartphone, and other electronic device! These come from our Kobold Press 2016 Calendar, and they feature April’s art by Florian Stitz.
Guest Article: You Got Technology in My Fantasy Setting
Since we’ve been busy today doing “other things,” we decided to put up this guest article by one of those writers over at Gnome Stew. We just found it somewhere, but we might as well run it… It will fill the gap while we’re away and totally not doing anything nefarious with technology… Technology and …
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