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Memoirs of a Lich: Wannabes
Dear Osvaud, This is Osvaud. I’m assuming at this point that you’ve bought in on the idea that I am you. Just in case, I’d like to call attention to your fourth rib down on the left. Upon close...
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Beyond Damage Dice: Thrown Weapons
A weapon is more than the damage it deals. In combat, skilled warriors use their weapons to confuse, disorient, and disadvantage their enemies before moving in for the kill. Beyond Damage Dice ties...
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Objects of Hell: Items from Dante’s Inferno
Dante Alighieri cited various magic items in his masterwork opera Divine Comedy. As already done for otherworldly swords, 5E stats are presented for two potent items appearing in the first part of the...
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Ask the Oracle: New Games
Dear Kobold Oracle, I’ve been invited to join in a roleplaying game with some friends next week that I met on summer break. I haven’t really decided if I’ll go or not, but if I do, what should I bring...
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Beyond Damage Dice: Midgard Weapons
A weapon is more than the damage it deals. In combat, skilled warriors use their weapons to confuse, disorient, and disadvantage their enemies before moving in for the kill. Beyond Damage Dice ties...
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Midgard Maps: The Lady of White Rose Manor (page 5)
The Kobold King, in his scaly wisdom, became a patron of the famed cartographer, Dyson Logos (Fantasy RPG Cartography by Dyson Logos)! Magnificent maps were attained, thereby, which our Squamous...
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Your Whispering Homunculus: For One Night Only… Funny Weather
“Close the shutters, grotesquelet. I have it on good authority we’re in for a stormy night.” “With pleasure, Oh Round One. Hail?” “Don’t grovel. My dear friend Ragwort the Amaranth Wizard tells me he’s...
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Gen Con: The Pics
Gen Con has been a whirlwind adventure. And winning the ENnie for the 2016 Silver for Best Setting for the Southlands Campaign Setting is truly wonderful! Thanks to everyone who voted. But the...
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Preview of Tome of Beasts: Rime Worm
Do you know what it’s like to clean up “ice and rotting flesh” from the mines? And nothing ever really gets that smell out. I mean, it just gets in your nose, and you just keep smelling it everywhere...
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Adventurer’s Field Guide: Great Balls of Fire
The fireball spell has long been the go-to spell for casters wanting to inflict a large amount of damage to multiple targets. How many times have you heard the archetypal and unimaginative “My...
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Memoirs of a Lich: Frenemies
Dear Osvaud, This is Osvaud. We have a lot of enemies, but some of our best friends are technically enemies. Most aren’t usually really trying to kill you and are probably willing to murder others...
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Bourgundian Parfumier: A Background
Not all (dramatic) changes to one’s lifestyle, calling, or ambitions are a result of social or financial decline. Some are simply decided upon. Regardless of your motivation or incentive for change,...
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Milton & Magic: Mythical Items from English Literature
In his tragic closet drama Samson Agonistes, John Milton, renowned author of Paradise Lost, narrates the sorrowful life of Samson, the archetypal barbarian of the ancient tradition. Some mythical...
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Preview of Tome of Beasts: Loxoda
There’s a reason why kobold mine entrances are so small. I mean, who wants to get stepped on in their own mine? Is that an ogre? Or an elephant? Yup. Meet the loxoda. They trample, stomp, and maul,...
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Your Whispering Homunculus: For One Night Only… Funny Weather, Too
“Close the shutters, grotesquelet. I have it on good authority we’re in for a stormy night.” “With pleasure, Oh Round One. Hail?” “Don’t grovel. My dear friend Ragwort the Amaranth Wizard tells me...
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Beyond Damage Dice: Southlands Weapons
A weapon is more than the damage it deals. In combat, skilled warriors use their weapons to confuse, disorient, and disadvantage their enemies before moving in for the kill. Beyond Damage Dice ties...
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Real Steel: Shadow Bane, A Benefit Roll Off
Once in a while, I get asked to make a piece for a benefit raffle or auction. A few months ago, I was contacted about doing a piece to benefit Ernie Gygax, the eldest child of Gary Gygax. Ernie has had...
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Makurian Caravan Guard: A Background
Like many that hail from the desert city-states, you learned to read the language of the Lotus and Tamasheq Trails before you could even read the simplest Nurian scroll. Before you knew how to lace...
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Midgard Maps: The Lady of White Rose Manor (page 6)
The Kobold King, in his scaly wisdom, became a patron of the famed cartographer, Dyson Logos (Fantasy RPG Cartography by Dyson Logos)! Magnificent maps were attained, thereby, which our Squamous...
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September 2016 Kobold Press Calendar Wallpapers
Ahh, September. Cool, breezy September is here and so is another month of wallpapers for your computer, your smartphone, or whatever electronic device you’ve got! These come from our Kobold Press 2016...
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