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Make your next dungeon more dangerous with the online trap generator from...
This Friday, we’re diving into the Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins Preview PDF to highlight some of the Traps and Hazards in a quick, digital rollable generator. We took all the Trap Tables...
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Blowing Up Midgard, part 6, The bindings of Demon Mountain break!
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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Monster Vault Preview: Tales of the Valiant presents . . . the gray ooze
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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What a treasure! The Dungeons & Ruins treasure preview keeps on giving
Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins is going strong on Kickstarter! This 256-page hardcover book goes into deep detail about making old and dangerous places extra awesome for your Tales of the...
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Pack Tactics Advice: How can I play better to make things easier for my GM?
It’s time again for the Kobold Press advice column, Pack Tactics! Our roundtable experts this month are Ben Eastman, Basheer Ghouse, Philip Larwood, Ben McFarland, Brian Suskind, Jeff Quick, and Mike...
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Maximize Your Dungeon Planning: Dungeons & Ruins Dungeon Tracker
Every GM is different, but a successful gaming session depends on striking a balance between planning and adapting in the moment. Some GMs plan for hours, and fill pages of notes to ensure that even...
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Midgard Monday: Getting the warband together, part 5
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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Kobold Press unveils the Black Flag Reference Document (BFRD)
Kobold Press, a leading publisher of tabletop roleplaying games, is proud to announce the highly anticipated release of the Black Flag Reference Document (BFRD). Developed since January 2023, the BFRD...
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Potion Commotion: With a potion of giant strength, you don’t even have to...
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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Dungeons & Ruins Spotlight: Go down to ruin in burial sites
This excerpt from the upcoming book from Kobold Press, Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins, discusses burial sites as one kind of ruin. It includes a sample adventure-filled burial site you can...
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Apple Pie Social: Minigames for your campaign festivals
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 6
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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How to Design and Publish With Black Flag Roleplaying
Sometimes a game master turns into a game designer. It can be as simple as writing down and expanding your game notes, or as complex as documenting an entire campaign. Anyone can become a designer;...
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Planar Boutiques, part 1: Buy toys and relics in a world between worlds
As detailed in the Guide to the Labyrinth, the Labyrinth is the “space between worlds.” Though most of the Labyrinth consists of tunnels, bridges, and stranger passageways, bottled cities and pocket...
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Random Rooms to Build a Haunted House
Building a haunted house for a fantasy RPG is about setting the tone. Rooms should feel eerie, spooky, and at times unnerving. You’ll have set up a few big battles with the creatures you love, but...
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Good Riddance! Part 4: Dragons are totally metal
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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Midgard Monday: Bearfolk Lineage and Heritages 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...
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Lizardfolk lineage and heritages for the Tales of the Valiant RPG
The Tales of the Valiant roleplaying game is here! PDF and VTT versions are available now! The Player’s Guide contains the classic fantasy people for player characters: elves, dwarves, and humans, and...
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Heritage How-to: Write your own Tales of the Valiant RPG heritages!
A concept introduced in the Tales of the Valiant RPG splits what used to be “race” into component parts, lineage and heritage. Lineage is what kind of being you are: an elf, a dwarf, a gnome. Heritage...
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Monster Mix: What happens when you cross a rust monster and a metallic dragon?
Intelligent alien creatures such as aboleths, as well as the occasional mad wizard or capricious deity enjoy tinkering with creatures to make them more suited for their environments or just as a...
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