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Monster Vault Preview: Tales of the Valiant Wight
As the creators of the Creature Codex and the Tome of Beasts series, we wanted to give the same love and care for the earliest 5E monsters that we gave to our other monsters. To accomplish that, we...
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Dryad lineage and heritages for the Tales of the Valiant RPG
When the Tales of the Valiant Player’s Guide debuts in just a few months, it will contain the classic fantasy people for player characters: elves, dwarves, humans . . . the usual suspects. But over...
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Midgard Monday: Getting the warband together, part 3
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...
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Isekai’d, part 6: Roll on tables to set up your isekai campaign
As you consider setting up an isekai game for your players, you can take many different routes to get there, and use a number of different sources for inspiration. Try these tables to roll up a game...
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The Random GM: the Quick Work table to create an NPC halfling
The PCs are visiting a halfling community. They’re everywhere. And then one of the players wants to talk to one. No problem, you prepared for that. Then they want to talk to another one. And then...
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Pack Tactics Advice: Long-time player, new GM. How do I advertise?
It’s time again for the Kobold Press advice column, Pack Tactics! Our roundtable experts this month are Ben Eastman, Basheer Ghouse, Sebastian Rombach, and Mike Welham. You might recognize some of...
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Blowing Up Midgard, part 4, The Dread Walkers in the West awaken
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...
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Potion Commotion: Feel the need for a potion of speed
Potion Commotion looks at a few staple potions in the game and plays around with them. We’ll taking the standard abilities and offer them with either boosts or limitations, providing new versions of...
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The Random GM: the Quick Work table to create an NPC gnome
Love ’em or hate ’em, gnomes are a classic part of the D&D experience. Unless you go out of your way to exclude them, they’re in most campaign settings, even Midgard. In modern RPGs, gnomes have...
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Add new shops to your campaign’s home city, courtesy of Redtower
The village of Redtower, home city of the Scarlet Citadel megadungeon, is a modest community, boasting just a handful of interesting locations for the adventuring crowd that the neighboring Scarlet...
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Midgard Monday: Getting the warband together, part 4
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...
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Gnoll lineage and heritages for the Tales of the Valiant RPG
When the Tales of the Valiant Player’s Guide debuts in just a few months, it will contain the classic fantasy people for player characters: elves, dwarves, humans . . . the usual suspects. This blog...
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It’s a trap! The Dungeons & Ruins preview falls on an unsuspecting world
This week, Kobold Press launched Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins on Kickstarter! This 256-page hardcover book goes into deep detail about making old and dangerous places extra awesome for your...
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Good Riddance! Part 3: One of a kind antagonists—make the unicorn the bad guy
The classic alignment grid consisting of three rows (Good, Neutral, and Evil) and three columns (Lawful, Neutral, and Chaotic) is a contentious topic in TTRPGs. A lot of games (including the Tales of...
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The Right Tools for the Job
@koboldofficial Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins is live on #kickstarter #ttrpg #dnd5e #koboldpress ♬ original sound – Kobold Press For Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins, Kobold Press...
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Blowing Up Midgard, part 5, The bindings of Demon Mountain bend
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...
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ToV Tuesday: The Valiant 6 arrive! Bring the action home to your games
To accompany the launch of Tales of the Valiant, Kobold Press has cooked up the Valiant 6, our iconic characters. Here are images and downloadable PDFs of 4th-level PCs ready for action. Use them to...
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Monster Vault Preview: Tales of the Valiant presents . . . the mimic
As the creators of the Creature Codex and the Tome of Beasts series, we wanted to give the same love and care for the earliest 5E monsters that we gave to our other monsters. To accomplish that, we...
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Dungeons & Ruins Spotlight: Use dungeon themes in your dungeon creations
This excerpt from the upcoming book from Kobold Press, Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins, shows you the framework used to describe dungeons to help you define your creations. It includes some...
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Tome Unrestricted: Tatzelwurm
The Tome Unrestricted series fleshes out monsters from the Tome of Beasts 3, giving GMs ways to modify existing monsters to surprise well-prepared players or introduce new monsters to a campaign. This...
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