

Inside you’ll find guides that show you how to beg, borrow, and steal from pop culture the way real designers do. Specifically, its “fantasy monster design” which means you could theoretically use the principles with any RPG that takes place in a fantasy world, but we all know the big ones are 5E and Pathfinder.īut here’s why you’ll want to check it out. The Kobold Guide to Gamemastery has some of the best DM advice you’ll find this side of YouTube, for instance.Īnd now they’re turning that same eye, which is full of advice, so you know it’s not a beholder eye, towards monster design. What you might not know is that they frequently collect advice from some of the industry’s and community’s brightest stars and compile them into little essay books that can be anyone’s secret weapon. As one of the biggest publishers of 5th Edition material this side of WotC, they’ve produced whole alternate campaign settings, including the mythologically-inspired world of Midgard, the undead-festooned reaches of the Empire of the Ghouls as well as a variety of new spells, monsters, and more.


Kobold Press is no stranger to dungeons and/or dragons. Kobold Press is bringing their signature style and introspection to the art of fantasy monster design in the Kobold Guide to Monsters.
