Paladin Orders, The Verdant Frond
In the current edition of the world’s most popular roleplaying game, paladins get the short end of the stick in two ways. First, paladins don’t have the greatest reputation with the player base....
View ArticleMoving to Midgard: The Crossroads
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 ArticleDiablo IV Barbarian Subclass 2
With the recent launch of Diablo IV, players take on the role of one of five classes in that game: barbarian, druid, rogue, sorcerer, or warlock. These classes bear a notable resemblance to their 5E...
View ArticleTome Uncased: How the Sausage Goes In
The Expanding Codex and Tome Unbound/Unleashed series have dissected, reassembled, and borrowed from over 50 monsters published by Kobold Press. More are on the way! But before the next series begins...
View ArticleYou Find Yourself in a Forgotten Temple, part 5
Some locations—the wizard’s tower, the sunken temple, the haunted house—appear repeatedly in stories and adventures. In this series, we’ll explore the archetypal lost temple, playing with or defying...
View ArticleToV Playtest Packet #5: Clerics
We hope you have enjoyed the ToV Alpha Release. Seeing it in action at Gen Con 2023 was a highlight of our year. Your feedback was so important in the process and development, but our work isn’t done...
View ArticleMidgard Monday: Thieves Guild in the Northlands
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 ArticleBarbie x D&D: Attack of the Kens!
Oh no! Despite the valiant efforts of Barbie and her friends, some naughty Kens have taken Barbie’s horse, Midnight, and her Dreamhouse too. Barbie needs help more than ever to fix this mess before...
View ArticleSpare Parts: Home Away from Dungeon
We’ve been exploring tips and methods to steal from existing products to make your home game better. The Scarlet Citadel has been our template for how to do it, but the principles in this series can...
View ArticleDungeon 23: The Test of Flame
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 Wizard’s Playbook: Magic Missile
Widely considered to be one of the best attack spells in the game for wizards of any level and often the first pick for anyone making a sorcerer or wizard, magic missile has been around since the very...
View ArticleAdventure Jigsaw: Ride about the Wheel
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 ArticleDark Souls x 5E: The Ground Rules
You Died. That’s how the first session of my D&D/Dark Souls homebrew began; with the black dragon, Ebonwrath, swooping out of the sky, breathing black death upon the PCs in a brief but...
View ArticleNPC Webs: The Market Square
NPC Webs details a set of NPCs who could appear in a standard adventure location. While talking to some other campaign figure, these minor NPCs can serve as fleshed out background players, living...
View ArticlePack Tactics! New Advice Column!
Kobold Press is pleased to announce our new advice column, Pack Tactics! For the next few months, we’ll be taking questions from players and GMs. A crack team of Kobold Press regulars has gathered,...
View ArticleMidgard Monday: Eyes of the Dragon Empire
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 ArticleDark Souls x 5E: Soul Purpose
“It’s dangerous to go unequipped, Chosen Ones. Here. Take thy burial gifts with thee,” said the firekeeper to the dragon Ebonwrath’s latest victims. When the PCs return to rest at the bonfire, there’s...
View ArticleMachinations of Magludias Fynch: Criminal Contacts
Magludias Fynch’s Wandering Clockwork Workshop, Miniature Carnival, and Artisan Trade Show is known to a select, secretive few to provide several far less-frivolous, amenities. Amenities only found...
View ArticleDungeon 23: Gruesome Greed
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 ArticleImprov Proficiency 2: Working Together
Roleplaying in a game is one of the most effective ways a player can interface with their character and immerse themselves into the world of the game. A common concern among newer players however, is...
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