RPG Books

Description:
Brutal insurrection in a mile-high fantasy city.

In the mile-high ancient city of Spire, the cruel and beautiful high elves rule through bloody oppression – and the dark elves have had enough. In Spire: The City Must Fall, players take on the role of a rebel cell in service of a forbidden goddess of shadows and misdirection, and it is their mission to overthrow the government with a mixture of espionage, rabble-rousing, illegal magic and murder.

Spire offers players a variety of weird and wonderful character classes, such as the hyenatoting Carrion Priest, the mass-transit wizard Vermissian Sage, the backstabbing Masked, the spider-blooded occultist Midwife and the Bound, who has trapped a loose god in their knife and refuses to let it out. These characters exist within a richly detailed city, and the book drips with plot hooks, potential missions and urban fantasy strangeness.

Spire uses a simple set of mechanics called the Resistance System, which focuses on what player characters have to lose and how far they can fall before they succumb to misfortune. While fatal injury in combat is a common end for a revolutionary, characters can be black-bagged by the secret police, sold out by their family, driven mad, cursed, or turn against their allies – and it’s all handled using the same easy-to-learn rules.

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Spire’s release, the core book has been redesigned and reprinted– and included is additional content in the form of the Black Magic rulebook and the Blood and Dust scenario which were previously available as separate softcover sourcebooks.

Features:
• In the mile-high ancient city of Spire, the cruel and beautiful high elves rule through bloody oppression – and the dark elves have had enough.
• To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Spire’s release, the core book has been redesigned and reprinted.
• Spire offers players a variety of weird and wonderful character classes.

Contents:
• 1 x Book

Description:
Experience DARK SOULS like never before in this complete table top roleplaying game of adventure, horror, and tactical combat. Inside these pages is everything you need to run thrilling roleplaying campaigns set in the ruinous DARK SOULS universe.

Like the video games, DARK SOULS: The Roleplaying Game is designed to be a punishing but rewarding experience that will delight hardcore fans and role-players alike. Few obstacles are easily overcome. Every enemy is a challenge. Progress is hard-won. You’ll die many times over. You’ll also rise again with DARK SOULS: The Roleplaying Game’s death and rebirth mechanics, based on the video games’ unique system that rewards willpower and perseverance. You’re not alone. As well as fellow role-players, a host of familiar faces stand ready to assist you. Engage in jolly cooperation to vanquish your foes!

Features:
• 500 page, lavishly illustrated, hardback core book bursting with DARK SOULS content.
• No additional handbooks are needed to play! This is an all-in-one game.
• Inside is everything needed to run incredible roleplaying campaigns.

Contents:
• 1 x Dark Souls Roleplaying Game Book

Description:
Confront not one but TWO iconic bosses from the DARK SOULS video games with this epic boss box.

The Dancer of the Boreal Valley was once a former royal’s distant daughter made to dance by the duplicitous Pontiff Sulyvahn. However, it soon became apparent a warrior’s lot was her true calling, and she was sent abroad as an Outrider Knight. Though she became little more than a beast, some vestige of her former life as a dancer still remains.

Smough, the Executioner, made up for his lack of grace with an enthusiasm for acts of great violence. His sinister gurgling chuckle has heralded the end for many a promising knight. There were even rumours the Executioner’s prodigious strength stemmed from a tendency to devour his victims. But that couldn’t possibly be true, could it?

Prepare to die. Unleash two brutal boss encounters on your next RPG night with the gargantuan Dancer of the Boreal Valley & Smough boss box, created for DARK SOULS: The Roleplaying Game.

Features:
• Add these minis to any roleplaying campaign right from the box. Or paint and display them in your cherished display cabinet. The choice is yours!
• Compatible with fifth edition of any fantasy roleplaying game.
• Engage with the DARK SOULS combat system in full.

Contents:
• 2 x Highly Detailed Miniatures
• 2 x 5e Compatible Stat Cards

Description:
Adventurers in Lothric are beset on all sides by unspeakable horrors. Those who survive their close-run encounters with hulking knights, deranged Hollows, and twisted creatures of the Abyss with some vestige of sanity intact will need all the help they can get.

That’s where you come in.

Support your players through their many trials and tribulations in Dark Souls™: The Roleplaying Game with this 3 panel, matte laminate GM Screen (reaching over 60cm in width when fully unfolded!). Equipped with key rules, reference tables, and other useful aids in an easy-to-reach format, this screen will help you induct players into the punishing but rewarding world of the tabletop Dark Souls™ RPG. The side your players will see is decorated with lavish illustrations from the Dark Souls™ universe.

This pack also contains a 24 page adventure book, ‘What Remains in the Fire’, an introductory one-shot adventure perfect for new and experienced players.

Features:
• Support your players through their many trials and tribulations in Dark Souls™: The Roleplaying Game with this 3 panel, matte laminate GM Screen.
• This pack also contains a 24 page adventure book, ‘What Remains in the Fire’, a one-shot adventure perfect for all players.
• Take your DARK SOULS: The Roleplaying Game campaigns to the next level.

Contents:
• 1 x Dark Souls Roleplaying Game GM Screen
• 1 x Adventure Book

Description:
Death tugs at your soul as you press on, deeper into a world of forgotten palaces, broken kingdoms, and fading hope.

The journey through the treacherous realms of DARK SOULS continues, and we invite you to immerse yourself in the Tome of Journeys. Here lie the means to make your next roleplaying campaign twice as thrilling and thrice as deadly!

Within these whispering pages, you’ll find a wealth of new material to further flesh out your RPG campaigns. From classic DARK SOULS locations, to new equipment and weaponry, plus two complete adventures ready to slot into your games. Not to mention secret tips and advice for Game Masters, to help you run sessions that will keep players coming back to the bonfire for more!

Fully illustrated and entirely deadly, the Tome of Journeys will take you on a journey unlike any other. Prepare to die…

Features:
• From classic DARK SOULS locations, to new equipment and weaponry, plus two complete adventures ready to slot into your games.
• Fully illustrated, 5e compatible, and entirely deadly, the Tome of Journeys will take you on a journey unlike any other.
• Take your DARK SOULS: The Roleplaying Game campaigns to the next level.

Contents:
• 1 x Dark Souls Roleplaying Game Book

Description:
We are amidst strange beings, in a strange land…. Add new chapters to your DARK SOULS story with the Tome of Strange Beings – a compendium of terrifying monsters and iconic bosses from the DARK SOULS universe! This ancient tome, plucked from the dusty shelves of the Duke’s Archives, expands on the bestiary from DARK SOULS™: The Roleplaying Game’s core book.

Discover profiles for over 80 unique monsters and bosses from various ages within these 120 pages, providing a stern test for your roleplaying adventures. Those looking for the ultimate challenge can do battle against legendary foes from throughout the ages – including Ornstein and Smough, and Lord Gwyn himself!

These lavishly-illustrated entries contain 5e-compatible stats and lore for you to add DARK SOULS monsters to any tabletop roleplaying campaign. Terrifying monsters. Iconic bosses. New DARK SOULS adventures.

Features:
• Discover profiles for over 80 unique monsters and bosses from various ages within these 120 lavishly-illustrated pages.
• Every entry includes 5e-compatible stats and lore to add these monsters to any roleplaying campaign.
• Take your DARK SOULS: The Roleplaying Game campaigns to the next level.

Contents:
• 1 x Dark Souls Roleplaying Game Book

Description:
Your Realm Awaits on 12 High-Quality Maps!

The call of adventure inevitably leads heroes to royal halls and imposing fortresses. With the Campaign Builder: Castles and Crowns Map Folio, the work of crafting settings for high-society gatherings, imperial audiences and desperate sieges is completely taken care of.

The Campaign Builder: Castles & Crowns Map Folio from Kobold Press whisks your players away to a variety of feudal locales.

Features:
• 12 beautiful, full-colour battle maps, including hunting lodge, monastery, dungeon, castle (2 floors), dwarven fortress, prison and siege grounds.
• Each 24” x 36” double-sided map (8” x 12” when folded) features a 1-inch square grid, perfect for miniatures.
• Specially coated for use with wet-erase, dry-erase, or even permanent markers – wipe dry in a moment.

Contents:
• 12 x Large 24 by 36 inch Maps

Description:
A Homebrewer’s Guide to Fantasy Cities!

Campaign Builder: Cities & Towns provides a complete toolkit to create, expand, and enhance the cities and towns in your 5th Edition game, whether running an established setting or working with an original or homebrew setting. From guilds to temples, and from useful NPCs to wild tables of plots and rumours, this 256 page tome strengthens and expands your game’s world immediately.

Campaign Builder: Cities & Towns brings you everything you need:

• City character sheets to help build and track your settlements
• Guidance on all aspects of urban planning, from trade goods to architecture
• NPCs, rulers, guilds, and cults to populate your metropolis
• New character options to help urban heroes survive and thrive
• A bounty of tables, from menu generators to public events

Features:
• Campaign Builder: Cities & Towns provides a complete toolkit to create, expand, and enhance the cities and towns in your 5th Edition game.
• Loads of helpful info, from guilds to temples, and from useful NPCs to wild tables of plots and rumours.
• Start building better cities today!

Contents:
• 1 x Book

Description:
Master 400 New Spells for Fifth Edition!

Deep Magic Volume 2 Pocket Edition is a sequel to the spellfilled 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 dozen tables, from descriptions of magical effects to reverse summoning quests, to the odd effects from drinking an old or badly brewed potion
• 16 adventure site location descriptions and encounter hooks to go along with the 24 Kobold Press Arcane Map Tiles

Whether you’re a Game Master or player, Deep Magic Volume 2 Pocket Edition has something magical in store for you!

Features:
• Deep Magic Volume 2 Pocket Edition is a sequel to the spellfilled Deep Magic Volume 1 and further expands on that first volume.
• Whether you’re a Game Master or player, Deep Magic Volume 2 Pocket Edition has something magical in store for you!
• Volume 2 features over 400 new spells.

Contents:
• 1 x Book

Description:
Unlimited Power Remastered!

No matter how you slice it, magic is at the heart of fantasy—and nothing makes that more real than a massive tome of spells. Deep Magic collects, updates, tweaks, and expands on years of magic from Kobold Press with more than 600 new and revised spells and other options:

• Introducing the Theurge base class, blending the arcane and the divine in one caster!
• 16 divine domains, such as Beer, Frost, Justice, Moon, and Time.
• 11 arcane traditions, such as the Elementalist and the Timekeeper.
• 4 sorcerous origins, including the Farseer and Serophage.
• 3 otherworldly patrons, 3 druid circles, 3 ranger and martial archetypes, 2 bard colleges, and 2 sacred oaths
• Plus, expanded rules for familiars and much more!

This tome is not just for wizards, warlocks, and sorcerers. Deep Magic also expands the horizons of what’s possible for bards, clerics, druids, and even rangers and paladins. It offers something new for every spellcasting class. Plus it includes the brand new theurge class!

With these new spells and options, your characters (or villains) can become masters of chaos magic, frost magic, or illumination magic. Seek out hidden colleges and academies of lost lore. And learn new runes, hieroglyphs, and cantrips to break down the walls of reality—or maybe just bend them a little. Deep Magic contains nothing but magic from start to finish!

Features:
• Deep Magic collects, updates, tweaks, and expands on years of magic from Kobold Press with more than 600 new and revised spells and other options.
• Deep Magic also expands the horizons of what’s possible for bards, clerics, druids, and even rangers and paladins.
• Deep Magic contains nothing but magic from start to finish!

Contents:
• 1 x Book

Description:
Dungeons Are Half the Game.

You can’t control what players are going to do. That’s half the fun. But you can control where they do it. That’s a whole other half!

The Kobold Guide to Dungeons gives both new and experienced Game Masters over 100 pages of insight and ideas into making dungeons great. In-depth essays from industry luminaries teach you to think outside your own boxes, and into a larger realm of challenge, discovery, and good old monster bashing.

Practical essays give you insider tips and tricks to:
• Design non-linear dungeons to explore
• Think in 3D to make amazing spaces
• Make every room count, even when there’s no monster
• Create solutions in addition to combat
• Dole out treasure—without blowing the bank

The Kobold Guide to Dungeons features essays from classic voices of the RPG canon such as David “Zeb” Cook, Frank Mentzer, and Lawrence Schick. It also includes newer voices including Dominique Dickey, Sadie Lowry, and Erin Roberts.

Features:
• The Kobold Guide to Dungeons gives both new and experienced Game Masters over 100 pages of insight and ideas into making dungeons great.
• You can’t control what players are going to do. That’s half the fun. But you can control where they do it. That’s a whole other half!
• Open this book and level up your half of the game!

Contents:
• 1 x Book

Description:
Decades of GMing Experience at Your Fingertips!

Whether it’s advice from grognards who were running games at the dawn of RPGs, or suggestions from the new generation of game designers, these 21 essays by experts are here to help you improve your GMing skills and create fun, amazing, memorable campaigns that’ll be talked about for years.

In this book, master GMs and storytellers give you advice about solo campaigns, shy players, cell phones, and making rulings on the fly. Are you unprepared for the game you’re running half an hour from now? Did you accidentally kill all the PCs? Do you want to run a game for kids? Did the plot take a sudden turn and the PCs have gone into uncharted territory? We’ve got you covered.

Complete with discussions on highlighting player strengths, tips for new and veteran GMs, and character romances, you’ll find useful advice about making your game more welcoming, more engaging, and more fun.

Featuring essays by Keith Baker, Wolfgang Baur, David “Zeb” Cook, Frank Mentzer, Shanna Germain, Monica Valentinelli, Steve Winter, and many other game professionals.

Features:
• Did you accidentally kill all the PCs? Do you want to run a game for kids? Did the plot take a sudden turn and the PCs have gone into uncharted territory? We’ve got you covered.
• In this book, master GMs and storytellers give you advice about solo campaigns, shy players, cell phones, and making rulings on the fly.
• Useful advice about making your game more welcoming, more engaging, and more fun.

Contents:
• 1 x Book

Description:
The Best Role in Roleplaying!

Whether you’re a new gamemaster or a seasoned vet looking for a new angle to shake up your game, these 19 essays by expert gamemasters help construct your campaign from the ground up—and keep your players engaged until the dramatic conclusion.

Kobold Guide to Plots & Campaigns shows how to begin a new campaign, use published adventures or loot them for the best ideas, build toward cliffhangers, and design a game that can enthral your players for month or even years. Want to run an evil campaign, or hurl the characters into unusual otherworldly settings? Want to ensure that you’re creating memorable and effective NPCs and villains? We’ve got you covered.

Complete with discussions on plotting, tone, branching storytelling, pacing, and crafting action scenes, you’ll find all the tips and advice you need to take on the best role in roleplaying—and become an expert gamemaster, too! Featuring essays by Wolfgang Baur, Jeff Grubb, David “Zeb” Cook, Margaret Weis, Robert J. Schwalb, Steve Winter, and other game professionals.

Features:
• Whether you’re a new gamemaster or a seasoned vet looking for a new angle to shake up your game, these 19 essays by expert gamemasters help construct your campaign from the ground up.
• Kobold Guide to Plots & Campaigns shows how to begin a new campaign, use published adventures or loot them for the best ideas, build toward cliffhangers, and design a game that can enthral your players for month or even years.
• Featuring essays by Wolfgang Baur, Jeff Grubb, David “Zeb” Cook, Margaret Weis, Robert J. Schwalb, Steve Winter, and other game professionals.

Contents:
• 1 x Book

Description:
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, eleven of adventure gaming’s top designers come together to share their insights into building worlds that gamers will never forget. Learn the secrets of designing a pantheon, creating a setting that provokes conflict, determining which historical details are necessary, and so much more. Even take that creative leap—and create dazzling worlds of your own!

Essays by Wolfgang Baur, Keith Baker, Monte Cook, David “Zeb” Cook, Jeff Grubb, Scott Hungerford, Chris Pramas, Jonathan Roberts, Michael A. Stackpole, Steve Winter, with an introduction by Ken Scholes.

Features:
• Learn the secrets of designing a pantheon, creating a setting that provokes conflict, determining which historical details are necessary, and so much more.
• Now, eleven of adventure gaming’s top designers come together to share their insights into building worlds that gamers will never forget.
• Even take that creative leap—and create dazzling worlds of your own!

Contents:
• 1 x Book

Description:
Your Dungeon Awaits…

Instantly drop your players into a multitude of dungeon encounters and dangers with Map Tiles: Dungeons from Kobold Press! These 24 wet- and dry-erasable 7″×7″ tiles are beautifully illustrated with mysterious and terrifying locales suited for forgotten dungeons and underground fortresses, including dungeon gateways, treasure troves, crypts, eldritch shrines, and more!

Bring a new spin on dungeon-delving classics with Map Tiles: Dungeons!

Features:
• These Dungeon Map Tiles offer many options when going on an adventure in different types of dungeons. Some of these options include a feast hall, ancient crypt, giant pit, and many more!
• 12 double-sided wet/dry erase cardstock map tiles.
• Your Dungeon Awaits…

Contents:
• 12 x Double-sided map tiles

Description:
Tread Lightly Through the Forest.

Draw your table into the foreboding woods beyond the edge of civilization with Map Tiles: Forests! Forge a path through 24 lovingly illustrated 7”x7” map tiles featuring abandoned camps, long-forgotten ruins, perilous river-crossings and other exciting opportunities for forest adventure! Whether your players are assaulting a bandit camp or creeping their way through a web-choked spider lair, all the wonder and terror of the deep, dark woods are at your fingertips with Map Tiles: Forests.

Features:
• These Forest Map Tiles created by Jon Pintar offer a large array of options when playing in a forest. Some of these options include abandoned camps, forgotten ruins, river crossings and much more!
• 12 double-sided wet/dry erase cardstock map tiles.
• Tread Lightly Through the Forest.

Contents:
• 12 x Double-sided map tiles

Description:
Adventure In a Dark World of Deep Magic!

It is an age of war. Civilization slowly gives way to encroaching wilderness, and once-mighty empires now lie beneath the waves. Only magic and the warmth of hope keeps lights aglow when dread things prowl, and priestly wardings are bent by demonic rage.

The omens are dire. The roads to the shadow realm are open again, and the fey have returned to claim their ancient tribute. In the north the giants prepare for Ragnarok, while the goblins in the west grow restless. In the Crossroads, the shadow of the vampire princes falls across the land. The World Serpent is stirring—and not even all-knowing Baba Yaga can say what will happen next.

The 460-page Midgard Worldbook for 5th Edition hardcover includes:

• Detailed description of Midgard’s empires, cities, and kingdoms, with associated heraldry, rulers, and adventure hooks for each state, large or small
• Characters from Baba Yaga to the lords of the Dragon Empire, from the honest folk of Zobeck to various elven holdouts of Dornig and the vampire lords of Morgau
• Full lore on the pantheons of the Northlands, Crossroads, Elves, and others, including divine domain lists, rituals, divine demands, and the various masks and sacred texts—plus rituals and ambitions of the Dark Gods, for the GM’s eyes alone!
• Revised and expanded lore of the planes, history, calendars, and conflicts of the world
• Forbidden lore of blood magic, void magic, and various dooms and items not meant for players’ eyes!
• And much more!

Features:
• Now more than ever, Midgard needs heroes to stand against the dark, driving it back with spell, steel, and cunning!
• Loads of helpful info, from locations to characters and monsters, and much more.
• Fully compatible with the 5th Edition of the world’s first roleplaying game!

Contents:
• 1 x Book

Description:
Monster Vault Pawns features 300 foes, from tiny to huge, pulled straight from the pages of the Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault and ready to drop into your next game. Including:

Small – Cockatrice, Goblin, Magma Mephit, Velociraptor.

Medium – Basilisk, Azer, Grimlock, Sea Hag.

Large – Aboleth, Chimera, Lamia, Ogre.

Huge – Balor, Adult Void Dragon, Behir, Hydra.

And so many more! Pawn stands not included.

Features:
• 300 pawns for your TOTV games featuring fearsome new monsters straight from the pages of the Tales of the Valiant!
• Small, Medium, Large and Huge pawns for all of your games!
• Pawn stands not included.

Contents:
• 300 x Full Colour Printed Pawns

Description:
This listing is for the stunning Limited Edition Cover version of the book with foil cover. Great storytellers make great stories. The Game Master’s Guide for the Tales of the Valiant roleplaying game contains everything GMs 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 creative prompts to craft a unique, fresh setting.
• Raise your exploration, social, and combat encounters up a notch with advanced tools and techniques for maximizing their potential.
• Homebrew monsters, character options, and more like the pros with advice, best practices, and building block examples.

Features:
• The Game Master’s Guide for Tales of the Valiant, includes everything the aspiring GM needs to level up their campaign and customize their own content for the Tales of the Valiant Roleplaying Game.
• Homebrew monsters, character options, and more like the pros with advice, best practices, and building block examples.
• Expanded rules and mechanics for social, combat and exploration.

Contents:
• 1 x Book

Description:
Game Masters! Send your players to exciting and farflung locales in search of adventure with the Game Master’s Guide Map Folio from Kobold Press! Storm impenetrable fortresses, travel to an arctic village, or rub elbows with the wealthy and powerful in a variety of unique and beautifully illustrated maps.

The Game Master’s Guide Map Folio brings a collection of detailed and adventurous maps for any Tales of the Valiant adventure.

Features:
• The Tales of the Valiant Game Master’s Guide Map Folio is the companion for the Game Master’s Guide.
• Each 24” x 36” double-sided map (8” x 12” when folded) features a 1-inch square grid, perfect for minis.
• Specially coated for use with wet-erase, dry-erase, or even permanent markers.

Contents:
• 12 x Large 24 by 36 inch Maps