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The Essential Elements for Building a World Roleplaying games and fantasy fiction are filled with rich and fascinating worlds: the Forgotten Realms, Glorantha, Narnia, R’lyeh, Middle-Earth, Barsoom, and so many more. It took startling leaps of imagination as well as careful thought and planning to create places like these: places that readers and players want to come back to again and again. Now,…

Campaign Builder: Castles & Crowns provides a majestic homebrew toolkit for your tabletop game! Create legendary rulers, mythic kingdoms, opulent palaces, and imposing fortresses down to the last detail with a host of tables and guides to enhance your world. Campaign Builder: Castles & Crowns brings you everything you need: Transform a dynastic game by awarding royal titles, creating factions, mak…

Brave the Darkness! Your Ultimate Guide to Dungeon Design. Challenge your players with journeys into subterranean halls and long-lost cities with Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins. The ultimate dungeoneering tool, Dungeons & Ruins provides a comprehensive guide to creating engaging dungeons, terrifying traps, and much more! Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins brings you everything you need: Fill y…

Danger and Discovery on 12 Erasable Maps! A host of classic dungeon locations await your unsuspecting party with the Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins Map Folio from Kobold Press! This collection of long-forgotten halls, trapped ruins, and even more forbidding sites will provide an exciting backdrop to any adventure. Each map is detailed, magnificently illustrated, and evokes all the tension and…

Master 400 New Spells for Fifth Edition! Deep Magic: Volume 2 is a sequel to the spell-filled Deep Magic: Volume 1 and further expands on that first volume. Volume 2 features over 400 new spells as well as: The Witch base class. 19 new subclasses. 3 new backgrounds. 14 styles of spellcasting. 15 magical grimoires. 3 new downtime activities. 10 spellcasting NPCs to help or hinder characters. Over a…

Dare You Tread the Twisting Paths of Shadow? In the Shadow Realm, sites of mysterious enchantment abound, watched over by denizens both strange and wondrous. From woods dark and eerie to courts of noble fey, all paths lead to haunts, ruins, machinations, and subterfuge. Inside this 192-page tome, find: 14 adventures, suitable for levels 1–8, playable separately or in sequence A variety of plots an…

Inside Vault of Magic, you’ll find a vast treasure trove of enchanted items of every imaginable use—more than 900 in all! There are plenty of armors, weapons, potions, rings, and wands, but that’s just for starters. From mirrors to masks, edibles to earrings, and lanterns to lockets, it’s all here, ready for you to use in your 5th Edition game.

Enter Devastated Lands Ruled by Chaos! Venture beyond the civilized world into the howling badlands where villainous cults do as they please and ancient constructs lie buried beneath the dust. Heroes brave enough to embrace arcane corruption can unearth great riches, forgotten magic, and powerful secrets—or a swift demise. Wastes of Chaos brings you everything you need to create hard-hitting adven…

The Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding, Volume 2, features 15 stars of tabletop roleplaying games and fantasy fiction, such as Gail Simone, Keith Baker, Veronica Roth, Ken Liu, Kate Elliott, Mike Shea, Tobias S. Buckell, Shanna Germain, Gabe Hicks, the Dungeon Dudes (Monty Martin & Kelly McLaughlin), Jeff Grubb, and more. Middle-Earth, Faerûn, Westeros, Eberron, The World of the Wheel, Exandria … these…

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Great storytellers make great stories. The Game Master’s Guide for the Tales of the Valiant roleplaying game contains everything Game Masters need to build deep narratives, exciting combats, and compelling adventures. - Learn what your players enjoy, customize your game to their playstyles, and keep everyone engaged and enthusiastic. - Start worldbuilding with plenty of tables, checklists, and cre…

The Tales of the Valiant (ToV) GM Screen is a four panel GM screen containing a variety of tables and information useful for running any ToV game. Here are some frequently asked questions about Tales of the Valiant: So, what is Tales of the Valiant? Tales of the Valiant (ToV) is the new core RPG from Kobold Press, publishers of such third party 5e compatible content as the various Tomes of Beasts,…

The Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault includes every dungeon-crawling and fire-belching fantasy creature you need to craft compelling fantasy encounters. It also has concrete advice on making challenging encounters and using the new Doom trait on monsters. The Tales of the Valiant (ToV) Monster Vault contains over 400 monsters and all the guidance you need as a game master to run encounters with…

The Tales of Valiant Player’s Guide includes 13 base classes, lineages and heritages from classic fantasy roleplaying, and all the rules you need to be a player or GM—all in one book. Start your own tale in an infinite universe of high fantasy adventure with the Tales of the Valiant (ToV) Player’s Guide! Within these pages, a trove of knowledge lies waiting for the valiant to claim it! Make your o…

The Tales of the Valiant (ToV) slipcase gift set contains both the ToV Players Guide and the ToV Monster Vault combined together in a slipcase to hold both books. Perfect for those wanting to commit fully to the Tales of the Valiant 5e compatible system. The Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault includes every dungeon-crawling and fire-belching fantasy creature you need to craft compelling fantasy en…