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Forestry Service: The Mar’Greived, mercenaries of the Forest
From the free companies of the Seven Cities to the ragtag bands of irregulars, cutthroats, and blades-for-hire that muster in the Crossroads, mercenaries in Midgard are as ubiquitous as they are...
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Ye Olde West: a genre exploration of wild west fantasy storytelling in...
A powerful way both players and GMs engage with TTRPGs is by emulating the tones, themes, and ideas of the stories and media they enjoy through their characters and campaigns. Though games such as the...
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Game Changer—Advice for new GMs! How do I bring kids into my game with adults?
Game Changer is our monthly advice column for new GMs and older GMs who aren’t afraid to learn something. Our resident GMing expert, Brian Suskind, draws from his vat of experience to let you know how...
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Midgard Monday: Ironcrags heritages of Wintersheim and Grisal
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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Forestry Service: Try these new Primordial spells of the Old Margreve
Hi kids! Do you like arcane violence? Wanna cast spells that tear into your foes with the ferocity of a lioness? If you said yes, this article is for you. Within this article you will find five new...
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Monster Mix: What if pegasi and unicorns were prehistoric animals?
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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Hometown Hazards. What you get up to in the cloud heritage
Adventures are usually about the events taking the heroes away from home. But this series explores possibilities when taking a character back home. What troubles lurk in a PC’s hometown? What manner...
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Midgard Monday: equip your adventurer with wondrous tools used by the...
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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Forestry Service: Top 5 Margreve destinations your PCs should visit on spring...
By royal decree of Her Illuminated Majesty Queen Dorytta the Fair, fifth Horse Queen and second of that name, Commander of the Black Army, Beloved of Khors, Lady of Cronepisht, Lady of the Argent, and...
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Ask Jiro! Tales of the Valiant game answers sneak up on you
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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Run a Campaign Like a Fiction Author, part 2
The first installment of this series introduced the idea of running a roleplaying campaign like an author writing a novel. I touched on the similarities between the two processes: in-depth...
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Rider Monsters: beef up your lich boss with a helpful, glowy pal
Extraordinarily powerful creatures possess exploitable weaknesses, and well-prepared PCs learn about them before charging into the fray. These creatures aren’t dumb. They recognize their own weakness....
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Midgard Monday: Ironcrags heritages of Upper and Lower Nordmansch
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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Forestry Service: Steal this monster! (and make your own with this template)
Are the normal variety of creatures in the Monster Vault not doing it for you? Don’t want to wait for Monster Vault 2? Do you want something that’s just a little more? More feral? More fey? Well,...
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Magical Meals—bearmit crab and giant mantis shrimp gumbo
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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Parties of Interest: Aspirants of Fang and Antler take care of your campaign...
The Aspirants of Fang and Antler exist to connect adventurous individuals with suitable animal companions. After abandoning their own unsatisfying paths as spell-slingers, swords for hire, and tree...
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Howling Tower: A Study of the Elf
This is the fifth article looking at the lineages in the Tales of the Valiant game, not as fantasy stereotypes but as if they’re alien species similar to what you’d find in science fiction. The point...
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Midgard Monday: stone, fire, and lightning! War spells of the Ironcrags
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 presents a Valiant Six Iconic Backstory—Hendrian Kaska, orc...
When Kobold Press launched the Tales of the Valiant RPG, we also launched six pre-generated characters for people to be able to start playing right away. These characters showed “iconic”...
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Havens of the Holy: seek shelter in the wandering Provident Tower
The Labyrinth 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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