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Completely sidebar question … What is ‘RIFed’? I’ve never seen or heard of that term / acronym before.
Only 24 hours remain to join the saltiest, most rum-sodden crew of corsairs on any sea!
Get Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder, plus the accompanying Map Folio, plus a host of FREE stretch goal adventures, buried treasures, and more before the campaign casts off!
Hey everyone! Wanted to let you know Pirates & Plunder is in its final days. Campaign Builder: Pirates & Plunder includes new PC options that ensure your heroes feel right at home in any sea-based 5E campaign or setting:
- 3 Wave-touched Lineages. Behold the sharklike Sea Dragonborn, the rapscallion Ratfolk, and the return of the Deep Ones, dwellers of the abyssal depths. - 4 Hearty Heritages. Shape your origins with stories like those of the Seafarer heritage, and make your life by wind and sail, or the Deep Folk heritage, a character born below the waves. - 7 Freebooting Backgrounds. Prepare your heroes to face the storms and cannons with backgrounds that play into classic buccaneer tropes, including the trading skills of a Merchant Mariner, the blood code of a Pirate, or the keen eye might of a Treasure Hunter. - Detailed Guidance for Nautical-Based Backstories so each player can craft characters perfectly tuned to the havoc and peril of a pirate-themed campaign. With expert guidance, craft seafarers and cutthroats that play to genre tropes and develop morally gray heroes who run the edge between redemption and damnation.
It's not all player material. Beyond this, you will find GM options:
- Black Powder Rules. Wield pistols and rifles from the decks and shore, with the burst mechanic to deliver incredible damage to your foes.
- 25 Curses, Diseases and Hazards. New options to plague your players with a bounty of brine-marked hazards. - Expanded Ship Combat. Dust off the ship combat system from the Book of Blades with a host of fresh rules tailored to your campaign’s particular brand of daring-do. - 5 Infamous Pirate Lords. Including the fiendish Dahul, the otter animal lord Admiral Halin, and the Dread Pirate Queen of the East. - 20 Legendary Islands. Plot your course between Cyclopean Ruins, the Mechadron Lighthouse, and the fell Isle of the Dead. And much more! Random tables galore to help you become the terror of the sea or to hunt them down. Create treasure maps on the fly with the Treasure Map Generator, build your story and reputation with the Infamy System, or craft your own pirate ship of legend with vessel upgrades, weapons and magical accessories. Beyond this, you’ll find guidance and strategies for building and running pirate lairs and seaport hives of villainy, learn to tell by sight the difference between a yardarm and a mizzen mast, fill the decks with doughty sailors and navigate the shallow waters between the factions of the sea, including the mysterious Scourge!
The most recent edition is 7th Edition, yes? Sounds like that’s what I’ll pick up, thanks!I DO remember! The adventure had us all arriving at some famous person’s house / estate but the person couldn’t be found. Occasionally we would hear a strange, faint cry for help crackle over the radio … Eventually we discovered the missing owner of the house had been reduced to a brain in a jar-like device hooked up to wires / machine of some sort (I can’t recall the details). I think it was some sort of failed experiment? At one point we fought some winged Cthulu creatures (well, tried to anyway) that were on top of a greenhouse while we were exploring the grounds. I played a doctor. I remember at the beginning, you let us each request one thing that wasn’t on our sheet and if we could make a valid case for it, you allowed it. I requested a revolver, saying my doctor had been a medic in the war and still had his service weapon. You chuckled and said sure. I remember firing that gun at those Cthulu creatures on the greenhouse roof and then understanding why you’d chuckled as the bullets had no effect on them and we all ran for our lives! If was such a great game and everyone had a blast!
I was lucky enough to play in a Call of Cthulhu game run by James back at PaizoCon 10. It was late in the evening, so the atmosphere was perfect, and the game was really cool! And of course, James was an amazing GM! I’ve wanted to get into an actual Call of Cthulhu ever since but haven’t had the opportunity yet … This brings me to my question. I know there are many different flavors of the Call of Cthulhu game, as well as various versions. Do you have a favorite? Which version would you recommend to someone who might want to pick the game up and try running a game himself? Thanks!
Night Hunters: Gothic Horror for TOV and 5E D&D Meet your nightmares and run adventures of astonishing nocturnal horror—with a spirit board playmat and Shadow Tarot cards! 5 Supernatural Subclasses including the Nemesis fighter, the Cursebreaker cleric, and a sorcerer with cursed ancestral power 3 Monstrous Lineages Witness the return of the fan-favorite darakhul and two never-before-seen options: the gravewrought, constructs stitched from the flesh of the dead, and the hexen, beings born of insidious hag-magic 5 Horrible Heritages Including the Survivor heritage, one of the few that defied the odds, and the Sepulchral heritage, born into a world dominated by death.
Clear Guidance and Prompts for Horror-Based Backstories so each player can craft characters perfectly tuned to the chills of a horror-themed campaign. Play to genre tropes and quickly spin up flawed heroes ripe for redemption. Fabled Magic Items, Spells and Rituals Night Hunters includes an arsenal of new magic items—including fabled items like the Witch Light Lantern and the Bow of Blackfire, plus new spells and rituals to battle the creatures of darkness[/list]
.... He was a really cool guy, and an extremely talented director -his death is truly a tragedy and a huge loss :(As a talented director, we lost him years ago. No doubt an inestimable tragedy and a damning indictment of our approach to treating mental illness - millions of dollars spent with no good measurable results. How many more times do we need to run this experiment? Wow …
Surprised to hear folks saying they didn’t realize Reiner was a director. He directed so many classic films … The Princess Bride, A Few Good Men, This is Spinal Tap, Stand by Me, When Harry Met Sally, Misery … just to name a few! He was a really cool guy, and an extremely talented director -his death is truly a tragedy and a huge loss :(
As a Holiday Exclusive for the month of December, we have also unveiled our new ART PRINTS and POSTERS featuring a few of the amazing art featured in the Art of Kobold Press! Order your Art of Kobold Press AND art prints and/or posters now and get them in time for the holidays!
This is a big bummer :( Ace Frehley, the wild Spaceman of Kiss who played guitar in the band throughout their Seventies heyday and again during the reunion period in the Nineties, inspiring an entire generation of musicians to pick up the instrument along the way, died on Thursday in Morristown, New Jersey. He was 74.
Unsure if this has been requested previously, but after getting the Art of Kobold Press, I feel Paizo should create a similar product considering I find Paizo’s art in their products have been and continue to be the superior in TTRPG. Make this happen! My money is yours! Awesome to hear you picked up the new Art of Kobold Press book! It was a real passion project and it’s super exciting to hear about all the folks who have picked it up already!! As for a similar coffee table style art book of Paizo art, I would absolutely buy it!! :)
Hey everyone I have a TON of cool resin bases, but I’m realizing I just don’t need them all, so I pulled a bunch out and would like to see them go to someone who can use them :) I have 136 25 mm resin bases from companies like Alien Lab, Micro Arts, Elrik's Hobbies, Dragon Forge, Secret Weapon, Dark Art Miniatures, in a ton of different styles - wasteland, cobblestone streets, wooden docks & ship decks, forest, ruins, temples, alien landscapes, etc. These are all brand new, never used Shoot me a PM if you are interested :)
Final Day !!! Next stretch goal reached - 5 new monsters added to the book: Hafgufa, Huskarl, Myrkrul, Skeljaskra, Skogsra!! That means ALL of these monsters, creatures, and NPCs are now in the book: Monsters
Mounts
NPCs
Northlands: Epic Norse Adventures for D&D 2024 and Tales of the Valiant Epic heroes, larger-than-life magic, and an adventure path from a simple fjord to the halls of Asgard! Raise your axe, heed the call! From the storm-forged creators at Kobold Press comes Northlands—a frost-bitten campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons 2024 and Tales of the Valiant. Inspired by Norse myth and shadowed by Ragnarok, Northlands delivers epic, rune-driven adventures across any northern realm of giants, gods, and reavers.
The Northlands Worldbook includes: 50+ new monsters, 8 new subclasses, 5 new species, 78 spells, plus new factions, downtime systems & drop-in realms of the frozen lands.
The Northlands Sagas adventure book includes: 11 adventures ranging from simple village skirmishes to full-on divine warfare, in a tightly-linked adventure path for levels 1 - 12. Funded in under an hour and a number of stretch goals have already been unlocked, INCLUDING the one at $150k, which is really cool: Northlands Adventure Open Call, the one and only open call from Kobold Press in 2025. What does that mean? All backers at the $29 level and up can submit an adventure pitch for consideration. Come up with your favorite concept tied to the Northlands and see if it wows our judges! The Kobold Press team will review the entries, pick two winners, and commission the authors to complete the design. Designers will be fully paid and credited, and their completed adventures will be published in late spring of 2026. And, there are plenty more awesome stretch goals!
I LOVED the way Thor was portrayed in earlier MCU movies but I absolutely HATE the more recent goofy comedy version of Thor. I get that Hemsworth is a funny guy and that’s awesome, but that doesn’t mean Thor should be a wacky joker. I prefer my Thor to be more Shakespearian with some gravitas, not a quippy joke machine …
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