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Downtime Explainer: What to do between adventures? The lowdown on downtime
KP Blog – Downtime is the Adventure between Adventures There comes a time when every hero finishes a quest, gets back to town to collect their hard-earned reward, and needs to take a breather. It’s...
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State of Play: I [HEART] Oozes OR Hail the Ooze Mage King, Baby
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! As part of Thursday night game...
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Golems for a more subtle wizard
Golems aren’t always giant, fearsome constructs created by archmages or archfey druids. Sometimes they are minor constructs created by hedge mages and other petty spellcasters to guard a shadowland...
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Try these 12 Slay the Spire magic items for your 5E game
Slay the Spire is a wildly popular and fun roguelike deckbuilder video game, available on a slew of platforms—even weird stuff like Linux. As you progress through a game, defeating monsters and...
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Havens of the Holy: worship the twins at the Bower of Twin Willows
The multiverse is a diverse and wonderful place. Why settle for stock stone temples and vaulting churches when your holy sites can be as varied as the planes themselves? This series explores several...
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Find Yourself in a Wizard Tower? Make a wizard tower layer by layer
Some locations—the wizard’s tower, the sunken temple, or the haunted house—have a well-trod presence in stories and adventures. In this series, we’ll explore the potential of these archetypal wizard’s...
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Pack Tactics Advice: How do I handle romance in the game?
It’s time again for the Kobold Press advice column, Pack Tactics! Our roundtable experts this month are Ben Eastman, Basheer Ghouse, Victoria Jaczko, Brian Suskind, and Jeff Quick. You might recognize...
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Midgard Monday: Pilgrimages of Midgard visit the Weaver Prophet
The goddess, Rava, is the patron of weavers and is sometimes symbolized by spiders. It’s Midgard Monday! Each week, we visit a corner of the wide world of Midgard. Look for standalone content you can...
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New Figures of Wondrous Power: the brass monkey and the granite goose
Try these new figurines of wondrous power for your Tales of the Valiant or 5E game! As a refresher, here are the standard rules for figures of wondrous power, as seen in the Tales of the Valiant...
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Sporting Goods: Bash and crash your way through a game of Spike-Rush!
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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Hungry Undead: a quick bite of ghoul-ash
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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Terrifying Temples: The hidden temple of Mammon
Deep beneath the Warrens and Cartways of the Free City of Zobeck, on the border of the underground kingdoms, a dark temple squats, dedicated to the god of greed and betrayal, the evil god Mammon. Two...
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Tales of the Valiant vs D&D: New game+
It’s launch day for the new D&D 2024! Congratulations to our colleagues at Wizards of the Coast who have worked hard to get this fifth edition game off the ground. We did that too! About five...
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Planar Boutiques, part 5: buy a trip into the Void
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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State of Play: Kobold Press Issues the No AI Pledge
Kobold Press CEO and Kobold-in-Chief, Wolfgang Baur, is here to give you some insight on the state of the industry! Both as the Kobold Press CEO and as a game designer, I’m pleased to say that Kobold...
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Howling Tower: What Are Experience Points?
In the previous Howling Tower, we discussed what are hit points? The natural follow on is—what in heck are experience points, anyway? Experience points (XP) are, I think, easier to understand than hit...
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Labyrinth Monday: The Void corrupts all it touches
Wait, isn’t Monday normally Midgard Monday? Yes, it is! But since all worlds, even Midgard, are contained within the infinite passages of the Labyrinth, you could say that we’re just expanding our...
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Magical Meals turn your dungeon crawl into a feast!
A mysterious figure known only as the Culinomancer, is a widely travelled individual of renowned skill. Their stated purpose? To create delicious and magical food from every known monster that can be...
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Ask Jiro! Learn about disoriented, frenzy, and why we made some controversial...
Ask Jiro presents an assortment of kobold scribes and sages to clarify Tales of the Valiant RPG rules and confirm errata sleuthed out by the ToV community! Since the announcement of ToV, the dynamic...
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Your Invitation to the Scouting Party!
Kobold Press announces the launch of a new long-form YouTube series called Scouting Party. This series provides viewers with an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the content inside Kobold Press...
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