KOBOLD Guide to Worldbuilding

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....   [click here for more]

Kobold Quarterly 6

Can Kobold Count?

It might seem that a quarterly would ship four issues a year, but no! Kobold Quarterly ships its first Annual with this issue, which includes:

Midgard: Player's Guide to the Seven Cities

In Midgard’s Seven Cities, war is embraced and celebrated as nowhere else. The armies of its republics march every spring, looking for conquest, plunder, and glory. Warriors come to the cities to take their coin as mercenaries, and many have seized a lord’s title. The oracle who keeps a god in chains, the merchant-assassins of Caple...   [click here for more]

Kobold Quarterly #2

The second issue includes articles by Ed Greenwood, Nicolas Logue, Skip Williams, Wolfgang Baur, and Jeff Grubb, among others. It features full-color art by fantasy artists new and familiar.

Kobold Quarterly gives yo...   [click here for more]

Advanced Feats: The Witch's Brew (Pathfinder RPG)

The Witch's Brew mixes together a cauldron full of feats and builds to create a witch character for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game that evokes the awe and dread of medieval folklore.

Created by Sigfried Trent, this 14-page book includes:

Book of Drakes

Put the dragon back into your dungeon!Want to unleash a dragon on your players, but the PCs aren't high-level enough yet? You don't have to wait any longer. The Book of Drakes lets you bring the most iconic monster in fantasy into your Pathfinder Roleplaying Game today. Strange and wondrous creatures lurk among the further branches of ...   [click here for more]

Dark Roads & Golden Hells (Pathfinder RPG)

"Dark Roads and Golden Hells is one hell of an achievement… or perhaps eleven of them. Every chapter offers a world of ideas, every paragraph a vision. Open this to any page, and see if it doesn't draw you in. Open Design has created a dazzlingly worthy successor to the Planescape legacy."

- Colin McComb, Planescape designer...   [click here for more]

Dwarves of the Ironcrags

Visit the heights of the Ironcrag Mountains, where dwarves master rune magic, forge powerful new magic, and keep dark secrets in fraternal societies.

More than taciturn miners and miserly smiths, the dwarves of Zobeck have a richly varied culture that includes slavers, secretive orders, and magical blades containing the souls of the dead.

Journeys to the West (Pathfinder RPG)

From lead designers Ben McFarland (2012 Gold ENnie Award winner for Best Adventure) and Christina Stiles comes an eight-island, five-adventure anthology of exploration and swashbuckling encounters with the unknown.

Compatible with the Pathfinder RPG, Journeys to the West expands the Midgard Campaign Setting across the sea,...   [click here for more]

Kobold Quarterly Magazine 20

Kobold Quarterly issue #20 takes a look at archers, with an elven archer base class for Pathfinder RPG, a shadow fey hunting party on the prowl, and new arrows carrying acid, fog, and razor filaments.

KQ #20 also features Jeff Grubb on the lost elves of Midgard, a Q&A with designer Christina Stiles and a new Zobeck adventure—plus vile Derro ooze magic, planar allie...   [click here for more]

Midgard Adventures 5: Beyond the Ghostlight Reef

The scholar Balack Giolan has long been intrigued with the odd women working the Ghostlight Reef, who extract its dream coral and delve its depths. His own hardened mercenaries fear to explore the Reef, but these women bring back arcane treasures, including the ebonsrib squid-ink Balack wants.

He’s been spying on their leader to ga...   [click here for more]

Midgard Adventures: The Forgotten King's Tomb

Treasures Lost in the Sands

A decade ago the Dragon Empire suffered a bitter defeat at the edge of Nuria-Natal, and its army was routed into the Sands of Sorrows. There a young officer named Shard and his gnoll warband stumbled through a vicious sand storm and into a long-lost ruin.

These ruins provided the small band shelter but also turned out to be the entran...   [click here for more]

Midgard Adventures: To the Edge of the World

To the Edge of the World... And Beyond!

This Midgard adventure takes your adventures into the exotic islands of the Western Ocean, to meet the lich queen, raise monsters from the depths, and visits lands far beyond the local hamlet and gatehouse – not bad for a low-level adventure!

To the Edge of the World goes beyond a typical...   [click here for more]

Midgard Bestiary for Pathfinder RPG

Between its covers lurk some of the greatest monsters that Kobold Press has unleashed on players over the last five years - ready to deploy in your Pathfinder RPG adventures. All are core fantasy creatures designed for easy adaptation to a homebr...   [click here for more]

Midgard Preview

Two Short Tales, and the Feathered Folk

This introduction to the Midgard Campaign setting offers up two short stories, by Jeff Grubb and Wade Rockett, plus a beautifully-illustrated overview of the setting.

The Midgard Preview also includes all details of a new PC race: the huginn, or ravenfolk, plus their sorcerous bloodline and beautiful art of the children of the runes...   [click here for more]

Monster Chronicles: the Inevitable

The inevitables are at least as strange as the slaad. Monster Chronicles: the Inevitable takes the tick-tock guardians of order and shows you how to deploy them in an OGL or Pathfinder game. With insight into what makes the inevitable work (and not work), this Monster Chronicles installment is both celestial and totally practical.

The Monster Chron...   [click here for more]

Monsters of Sin 2: Envy (Pathfinder RPG)

Monsters of Sin epitomize the very worst of our natures—and prey on others’ weaknesses.

This second book in the Monsters of Sin series for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is devoted to Envy, the desire for what someone else has – whatever that someone has! It includes:

Monsters of Sin 4: Lust (Pathfinder RPG)

Monsters of Sinepitomize the very worst of our natures—and they prey on others’ weaknesses. This fourth book in the Monsters of Sin series for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is devoted to Lust, desire that overrules all thoughts, emotions, and primal drives, a sin that can entice any character if played just right. 

It includ...   [click here for more]

Monsters of Sin 6: Sloth (Pathfinder RPG)

Monsters of Sin epitomize the very worst of our natures—and they prey on others’ weaknesses. This sixth book in the Monsters of Sin series for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game is devoted to Sloth, the willingness to let things get worse because improving them would take too much effort and discomfort. This sin can turn the most dynamic of adventur...   [click here for more]

Monsters of Sin Collection (Pathfinder RPG)

Heroes, beware the temptation of sin, for the smallest weakness can humble the mighty.

Only seven sins are vile enough to be called deadly. Each spawns unique and startling monsters in this volume, including:

New Paths: Expanded Elven Archer (Pathfinder RPG)

Combine brutal archery skills with a classic elven heritage using the expanded elven archer class! This in-depth book provides all the class skills, archetypes, spells, and equipment necessary to turn your elven archer into an enemy-hunting, bull’s eye-striking legend. Want a twist on the concept? Roll up a halfling slingmaster, a dwarven crossbowyer, or a mystic archer...   [click here for more]

New Paths: Expanded Spell-Less Ranger (Pathfinder RPG)

Aragorn Didn’t Cast Spells

Just because some designer thought rangers should be spell-slingers doesn’t make it right! With the Expanded Spell-Less Ranger, you can now play an authentic ranger without spells, but with great new abilities.

Welcome to the Expanded Spell-Less Ranger, a base class for the Pathfinder RPG that was first presented in Kobold Quarterly ...   [click here for more]

Party of 1: Alosar Emanli and the Creatures from the Fallen Star (solo adventure)

Druids vs. Aliens: Fight!

When a mysterious object falls from the night sky, apprentice druid Alosar Emanli stands alone as evil creatures from the stars invade his forest. Can he overcome the many dangers that lurk in the woods and defeat the alien brood? That’s up to you, the choices you make, and the luck of the die…

This stand-alone Party of Oneadv...   [click here for more]

Party of 1: Kalgor Bloodhammer and the Ghouls Through the Breach (solo adventure)

This stand-alone adventure is designed for a single player with no GM and basic rules. All you need to play is some dice (d6, d8, and 20), a pencil, some paper, and this book.

The rules are explained as you play. Begin at paragraph 1 and proceed from there, taking notes as you go. As the dwarf hero Kalgor Bloodhammer, you'll use all your might and cunning to protect your h...   [click here for more]

Shadow Planes & Pocket Worlds (Pathfinder RPG)

This 25-page supplement for Dark Roads & Golden Hells provides one exotic plane of horror, plus dozens of wondrous items, scads of planar hazards, and 6 clever afflications, and a section on Gamemastering Infinity.

It includes: