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TV to Tabletop: Spirited Away

TV to Tabletop is a new series where we take ideas from popular fantasy TV and movies and translate them to D&D terms. Use them in your own game as is, rename them to hide your sources, or get...

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Skill Challenges for 5E, Part 6

Skill challenges are a great way to bring the same sort of structure and excitement of combat to non-combat encounters. PCs use different skills as a group to tackle what’s in front of them and...

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Haunted Items: Leaping Stag Deck

Haunted items are magical curios inhabited by a soul, typically the soul of their former owner or someone with a close connection to the item. The soul has its own thoughts and motivations, and often...

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Street Eats of Zobeck: Mercantile Districts

It’s Midgard Monday! Each week, we visit a corner of the wide world of Midgard. Look for standalone content you can drop into your own campaign—whether it’s in Midgard or your own homebrew. Find new...

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Tome Unleashed: Alseid

The Tome Unleashed series fleshes out monsters from the Tome of Beasts, giving GMs ways to modify existing monsters to surprise well-prepared players or introduce new monsters to a campaign. Last...

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Dungeon 23: A Small, but Fierce Approach

You might be familiar with the Dungeon 23 project (D23 for short) presented by Sean McCoy late in 2022. If not, go take a look! D23 is a challenge for the community, whether game master or game...

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Unlocking the Vault: Eye of the Golden God

Unlocking the Vault dives into magic items from the Vault of Magic. In this closing installment, we’ve got a doozy. The Eye of the Golden God is a legendary magic item with a backstory that begs for a...

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Unpacking the Midgard Worldbook

It’s Midgard Monday! Each week, we visit a corner of the wide world of Midgard. Look for standalone content you can drop into your own campaign—whether it’s in Midgard or your own homebrew. Find new...

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Deeper Magic: Your Magic Academy

Magical academies make fantastic focal points for campaigns—for all classes. It gives PCs a powerful patron to support their adventures. The academy provides players with quests and access to magical...

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Folk Magic: Hearth & Home

In a world suffused with magic, what kind of magic do common folk use in their day-to-day lives? What so-called hedge magic is used by the peasantry to make their lives a little more manageable,...

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Deep Magic 2: Wallpapers

Deep Magic Volume 2 is an all-new book of magic for your 5E game, allowing your character to master new mechanics like true name magic. Create arcane adversaries and expand your repertoire with...

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Spindrift Dwarves of Midgard

It’s Midgard Monday! Each week, we’ll visit a corner of the wide world of Midgard. Look for standalone content every Monday that you can drop into your own campaign—whether it’s in Midgard or your own...

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Deeper Magic: Registration at the Magic School

Magical academies make fantastic focal points for campaigns—for all classes. These schools give PCs a powerful patron to support their adventures. They provide quests and access to magical resources...

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Boss Fights: Hoard Drake

Boss monsters are a hallmark of adventure design. In the climactic battle, the PCs end the boss’s schemes and save the day. Especially at lower levels though, boss monsters can be dull. They are...

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Dungeon 23: The Entrance

As discussed in the last post, Kobold Press is working on a small, but fierce approach to Sean McCoy’s Dungeon23 project. Throughout 2023, a roster of Kobold Press super stars will work together to...

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Children of Typhon: Adventure Hooks

Typhon, Father of Monsters, is chained beneath a lone mountain by the powers of good. Typhon desires escape, but thus far, no known power can free him. The Children of Typhon are the cult that...

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Project Black Flag Friday: Painting it Black

The Kobold team continues to work hard toward our first phase of Project Black Flag playtesting, set to release in February. Thank you to all 27,000+ of you who signed up to get your claws on the...

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Landmarks of the Great Northern Road

It’s Midgard Monday! Each week, we visit a corner of the wide world of Midgard. Look for standalone content every Monday to drop into your campaign—whether it’s in Midgard or your own homebrew. Find...

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Deeper Magic: Sophomore Antics

Magical academies make fantastic focal points for campaigns—for all classes. These schools give PCs a powerful patron to support their adventures. They provide quests and access to magical resources...

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TV to Tabletop: Stranger Things

TV to Tabletop is a series where we take ideas from popular fantasy TV and movies and translate them to D&D terms. Use them in your own game as is, rename them to hide your sources, or get...

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