Kobold Guide to Gamemastering Now Available
Decades of GMing Experience at Your Fingertips! “Kobold Press builds on its excellent track record with another great release—new and provocative,”—Mike Mearls Whether it’s advice from grognards who...
View ArticleTrapmaster: Seasons of Love
Seasons of Love Mira spat with frustration. It seemed a shame to leave some of the best pieces behind, but as the verse hinted, there is always some loss in the search for love… A rosewood box on a...
View ArticleCapleon Speculator: A Background
Capleon Speculator (“Salt and Spice Banker”) It is called the City of Peace and aptly so, for they say that in Capleon even murder is done with courtesy and grace. (See also Midgard Expanded: The...
View ArticleMidgard Expanded: The Travels of Lucano Volpe, or Rescued by Yakfolk
Part 7, Rescued by Yakfolk When a traveler leaves Khubara, the local people have a quaint custom in which they attack the departing voyager and attempt to rob him of both goods and life. Such was the...
View ArticleYour Whispering Homunculus: d12 Table Time, Part Two
d12 Table Time, Part Two “Pass the port and owlbear cheese, insect. I’m feeling peckish.” Continuing our dubiously useful collection of d12 tables, we start with a quick set of strange coincidences… A...
View Article5E Tome of Beasts on Hero Lab Now Available
A Horde of New 5th Edition Monsters Whether you need dungeon vermin or a world-shaking personification of evil, the Tome of Beasts has it. More than 400 new foes for your 5th Edition game-everything...
View ArticleDante’s Angeology: Aasimar Guides
Aasimar Guides If you’re patient and lucky, you my someday bear witness to celestial guides. Pure and wise, they assist characters of aasimar lineage in a hidden crusade against evil. Though their...
View ArticleMemoirs of a Lich: Monsters, Part 2
Dear Osvaud, This is Osvaud. Here’s a status report on the murdering 13,680 commoners in 24 hours idea: totally doable but not nearly as fun as it sounds. The paralyzing everyone for appropriate...
View ArticleMidgard Notebook: Writing, Game Design, and the Oral Tradition
Writing, Game Design, and the Oral Tradition I’ve been thinking a lot about exactly how we tell our stories. Mostly, this is at my youngest daughter’s request or instigation, though (given that she is...
View ArticleDeep Magic: Dragon Magic Now Available
Magic that Roils in Blood and Bone The dragons were among the first creatures to master all types of magic: controlling the elements, enchanting their lairs with innate defenses, and teaching their...
View ArticleTrapmaster: Courage Triumphant
Courage Triumphant Mira raised a weary and trembling arm, blackened with corruption, and grasped the door pull. “Hopefully, I’ve gotten this right,” she muttered as she pulled with all her remaining...
View ArticleMay 2017 Kobold Press Calendar Wallpapers
2017 Kobold Press Calendar It’s May! So here’s a set of wallpapers for your computer, your smartphone, or whatever electronic device you’ve got. These come from our Kobold Press 2017 Calendar. This...
View ArticleHowling Tower: Cardtography and the Wilderness
The Wilderness The cardtography method can be used to lay out a wilderness area just as easily as a dungeon. All that’s needed is an encounter grid tailored to your particular wilderness. Creating the...
View ArticleYour Whispering Homunculus: Curious Locales—Slaughterhouse and Undertaking...
Curious Locales—Filletess Honeysuckle Crab’s Slaughterhouse and Undertaking Emporium “Master!” “What is it now, slug?” “Look, I’ve found a property for sale in the Citystate Gazetteer. It sounds ideal...
View ArticleBehind the Curtain: So Much Art
We’ve got a ton of products in the works, so we wanted to give you a small taste of what’s to come. While the authors are off, working their fingers to nubs, art director Marc Radle is wrangling...
View ArticleMedieval Urbanism: A Fantasist’s Introduction
Medieval Urbanism and Geography The medieval city in all its multitude of forms and guises has been a staple in contemporary myths, storytelling, and fairy tales, and has profoundly influenced fantasy...
View ArticleDeep Magic: Blood & Doom Now Available
Dark Magic of Unutterable Evil “A field produces no crops until the farmer slices it open with a blade.” —Mstislav, Butcher of the Steppes Antipaladins and blood mages are amoral, self-centered, and...
View ArticleTerrors of the Dragon Empire: Wyvern Knight
The Dragon Empire is a fierce and unrelenting force, bringing to bear unique terrors to destroy all who stand in their way. Who can hope to survive such an onslaught? Wyvern Knight For centuries,...
View ArticleOf Godly Might: Clerics of Boreas (Part 1)
Clerics of Boreas Boreas, Son of the Winter Maiden, is defined by his single-minded obsession to bring to Midgard an eternal winter with all of its deadly aspects, including biting cold, blinding...
View ArticleMemoirs of a Lich: Monologues
Dear Osvaud, This is Osvaud. Do you recall every single time some buffoon with a holy aura gave us a lecture on the error of our ways? How about all the rivals cursing our name with their dying breath?...
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