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Monster Mix: Going to the dogs
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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Midgard Monday: Casimir’s Enchiridion of Monsters presents mimics
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 Gift Guide for Gen Con! New stuff for your empty bookshelves
Summer is traditionally convention season. Conventions are kind of a big deal nowadays, and they run year ’round. But the oldest and biggest conventions in the U.S. still fall in the summer. And lots...
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State of Play: Everyone’s New Edition, and a Major Award
Publisher and Kobold-in-Chief, Wolfgang Baur, is here to give you some insight on the state of the industry and the place of the Tales of the Valiant (ToV) RPG in it! Gen Con is here, and literally...
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Sporting Goods: Look smart, play hard in laerfinulin
While popular medieval pastimes like jousting and archery often feature in campaign settings and adventures, other organized sports barely rate a mention. Even in fantasy fiction, sports get a short...
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Pack Tactics Advice: What do I do at Gen Con?
It’s time again for the Kobold Press advice column, Pack Tactics! Our expert this month is Ben Eastman. He’s got the inside track. Anonymous Con-Goer asks . . . I missed Gen Con this year, but I’m...
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Midgard Monday: Shadow Fey Lineage and Heritage
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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One-Shot Builder: Castles & Crowns map folio theater
So you found a cool map that inspires your next one shot. Awesome! But you don’t know where to start filling it up. No problem! This week we are covering the theater, a public-auditorium-themed battle...
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Ask Jiro! Get your Tales of the Valiant rules questions answered
Ask Jiro presents an assortment of kobold scribes and sages to clarify Tales of the Valiant RPG rules, answer mechanics questions, and confirm and catalog errata being sleuthed out by the ToV...
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Hungry Undead: all we want to do is eat your brains
The undead were once living creatures, returned to a horrific second life. Undead can be created through necromantic spells, profane curses, or even sometimes through divine decree. Such creatures are...
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The Sun Seekers, a faction of the undead for your home campaign
Does every undead being in the world need to be an evil villain? What if a few of them got together to try to rehabilitate their image? The Sun Seekers are on a quest to do just that. No matter who...
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Midgard Monday: Casimir’s Enchiridion of Monsters presents deathless
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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Planar Boutiques, part 4: buy the trip of a lifetime!
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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Weapon Option Explainer: What’s a weapon option and how can I murderhobo with...
Okay, sword-swingers, mace-smasher, and arrow-twangers, its time to talk weapon options. In the before-times, TTRPGs had pretty clunky rules for things like disarming or tripping. But that was then....
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Random Scenes of Battlefield Chaos
Big fights in roleplaying games (including the brand-new Tales of the Valiant roleplaying game) risk descending into an uninspired series of die rolls to see who hits who how many times and how hard....
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Howling Tower: What Are Hit Points, Anyway?
Every Tales of the Valiant character is defined by a stack of important numbers: six ability scores and their modifiers, level, proficiency bonus, hit points, hit dice, spell slots, attack bonuses,...
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Terrifying Temples: The temple of the elven god in dwarven lands
In a hidden glade, at the top of Mount Locchis, amid the dwarven territory of the Ironcrags, stands the ancient shrine of Liadmura, the Eagle Court of the elves from before the Great Retreat. It is...
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One-Shot Builder: Castles & Crowns map folio—the Vineyard!
So you found a cool map that inspires your next one shot. Awesome! But you don’t know where to start filling it up. No problem! This week we are covering the theater, a plantation-themed battle map...
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Monster Mix:
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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Midgard Monday: Get a wyrd in edgewise with these magic items from the Void
The magical gifts and artifacts that seep from the wyrd depths of the Void are primordial and powerful, but always come with a price . . . a price as deep and cold as the Void itself. Here are some...
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