Haunted Items: Lucky Wishing Stone
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...
View ArticleStreet Eats of Zobeck: Dishes of the Devout
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 campaign—whether it’s in Midgard or your own homebrew. Find new...
View ArticleTome of Beasts 1, Revisited
Since 2016, Kobold Press has learned a lot about monsters, monster design, and what people like to see in books filled with monsters. Last year, we used this knowledge to revisit the first in our...
View ArticleTome Unleashed: Likho
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...
View ArticleDungeon 23: Rest and Drinks
Throughout 2023, a roster of Kobold Press superstars are working together to create a dungeon for the Dungeon23 project. Each installment contains a few areas that will stack up to a full adventure!...
View ArticleFrom the Ashes: Trolling the Dead
From the Ashes looks at making reincarnation special and strange in your 5E D&D game. Want to develop a backstory that goes all the way back? Tome of Heroes has hundreds of options to make...
View ArticleHeating Up at the Foundry
Our kobolds are scribing their fingers raw, preparing Playtest Packet #2, Magic, Luck, and Classes. Look for it next week!While you stack dice waiting, turn your gaze toward the fantastic work from...
View ArticleSewers Under Sveretska
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 campaign—whether it’s in Midgard or your own homebrew. Find new...
View ArticleJudges’ Choice Spells for Deep Magic 2
As part of the the recent Deep Magic, Volume 2 Kickstarter campaign, backers were able to submit spells for possible inclusion in the book. We had over 900 spells submitted to us! Our judges had to...
View ArticleDivine Purpose, part 3
If you play a cleric, your character should have a well-defined relationship between your character and their god. Let’s explore this relationship by providing a foundation for cleric characters born...
View ArticleFolk Magic: Miner Spells
In a world suffused with magic, what kind of magic do commoners use to make their lives a little more manageable, productive, and safe in their huts and hovels? Here are a few spells used by miners to...
View ArticleShoal Gnomes of Midgard
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 campaign—whether it’s in Midgard or your own homebrew. Find new...
View ArticleTV to Tabletop: Wednesday
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...
View ArticleBoss Fights: Treant
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 can be...
View ArticleDungeon 23: Spores and Sleep
Throughout 2023, a roster of Kobold Press superstars are working together to create a full dungeon for the Dungeon23 project. Each installment contains a few areas that will stack up to a full delve!...
View ArticleThe Green Maiden and the Forest Guardians
Tales abound of the dangers faced in the deep forest. Pitfalls, beasts, and a lost sense of direction threaten folk who live at the edge of the wood. But these dangers are only felt by those who do...
View ArticleProject Black Flag Friday: Design Diary #2, Foundations
Playtest Packet #2 for Project Black Flag has been available since last Friday. There are lots of questions, so we asked our Senior Game Designer, Celeste Conowitch, to reveal her thoughts in a new...
View ArticleThe Margreve Relic Hunt
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 campaign—whether it’s in Midgard or your own homebrew. Find new...
View ArticleCities & Towns Adventure Locales 1
The new Kobold Press hardcover book is on sale! Weighing in at a hefty 256 pages, Campaign Builder: Cities & Towns is a homebrewer’s dream. It’s full of advice on how to design new settlements or...
View ArticleBarber: A Background
You have pursued the venerable profession of the barber. They include the arts of the groom and beautician, the skills of a minor apothecary, and the local mender of minor ailments, wounds, and...
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