Your introduction to roleplaying games!

Looking to dive into your first tabletop roleplay game (TTRPG)? This set is designed with you in mind. This box contains everything you need to start playing the epic new Tales of the Valiant roleplaying game with no experience needed!

Open it up and we’ll have you taking part in the kind of dramatic, death-defying adventures you’ve dreamed of in no time at all. Whether you want to be the Game Master, spinning tales of dragons, goblins, and fabled treasure, or you want to be a hero of legend, battling great evil for the sake of a bright future, — this Starter Set is the introduction to roleplaying games.

Grab your friends, and get ready for the adventure of a lifetime!

Created by Steamforged Games in partnership with the roleplaying legends over at Kobold Press, the Tales of the Valiant Starter Set starts from the absolute basics (like how to talk at the table) all the way through your first session and beyond, with everything you need to get playing right away.

All the Monsters You Need for a Valiant Adventure!

The Tales of the Valiant RPG is a Black Flag Roleplaying Game from Kobold Press. Gather your friends and journey together across a labyrinth of worlds in search of adventure!

The Monster Vault contains over 400 monsters and all the guidance you need as a game master to run encounters with those monsters! Inside, you’ll find:

• Classic fantasy monsters, such as ogres, dragons, water elementals, and giants.
• New monsters suitable for any fantasy or science fantasy world, such as ambush hags, virtuoso liches,
• fey guardians, mechadrons, and robots.
• New terrors from the ever-corrupting Void, such as voidlings, star crows, crimson jellies, and the mighty void dragon.

The Monster Vault contains all the information a GM needs to create encounters with monsters, including monster roles and tactics, guidelines for modifying monsters to fit your campaign, optional rules for Doom points, and rules for characters wanting to harvest monsters for unique crafting and spell components.

Join the Ranks of the Valiant!

The Tales of the Valiant RPG is a Black Flag Roleplaying Game from Kobold Press. Gather your friends and journey together across a labyrinth of worlds in search of adventure!

The 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.

Every adventure needs a beginning. Start your own tale in an infinite universe of high fantasy adventure with the Tales of the Valiant Player’s Guide! Within these pages, a trove of knowledge lies ready, waiting for the valiant to claim it! 

• Make your own unique, legendary hero with the new Lineage and Heritage system.
• Select Talents and Backgrounds that make your hero stand apart.
• Master improved spellcasting and martial abilities to ensure every hero stands tall in a fight!
• Explore new downtime, exploration, and social encounter rules to expand your game beyond the dungeon.

The Player’s Guide is a streamlined, 5E-compatible ruleset with unique mechanics to increase both risk and reward for adventurous players of all stripes!

Tales of the Valiant is a Black Flag Roleplaying Game from Kobold Press. Gather your friends and journey together across a labyrinth of worlds in search of adventure!

The Tales of the Valiant RPG is a Black Flag Roleplaying Game from Kobold Press. Gather your friends and journey together across a labyrinth of worlds in search of adventure!

Tales of the Valiant: Player’s Guide

Join the Ranks of the Valiant!

Every adventure needs a beginning. Start your own tale in an infinite universe of high fantasy adventure with the Tales of the Valiant Player’s Guide! Within these pages, a trove of knowledge lies ready, waiting for the valiant to claim it!

• Make your own unique and legendary hero with the new Lineage and Heritage system.
• Select Talents and Backgrounds that make your hero truly stand apart.
• Master improved spellcasting and martial abilities to ensure every hero stands tall in a fight!
• Explore new downtime rules to expand your game beyond the dungeon.
• Learn a streamlined, 5E-compatible ruleset with unique mechanics to increase both risk and reward.

Tales of the Valiant is a Black Flag Roleplaying Game from Kobold Press. Gather your friends and journey together across a labyrinth of worlds in search of adventure!

Tales of the Valiant: Monster Vault

All the Monsters You Need for a Valiant Adventure!

The Monster Vault contains over 400 monsters for the Tales of the Valiant roleplaying game and all the guidance you need as a Game Master to run encounters with those monsters!

In this book, you’ll find:

• Classic fantasy monsters, such as ogres, dragons, water elementals, and giants.
• New monsters suitable for any fantasy or science fantasy world, such as ambush hags, virtuoso liches,
  fey guardians, mechadrons, and robots.
• New terrors from the ever-corrupting Void, such as voidlings, star crows, crimson jellies, and the mighty void dragon.

The Monster Vault also contains all the information a Game Master needs to create encounters with monsters, including monster roles and tactics, and it includes optional rules for Game Master Doom points.

All the Monsters You Need for a Valiant Adventure!

The Tales of the Valiant RPG is a Black Flag Roleplaying Game from Kobold Press. Gather your friends and journey together across a labyrinth of worlds in search of adventure!

The Monster Vault contains over 400 monsters and all the guidance you need as a game master to run encounters with those monsters! Inside, you’ll find:

• Classic fantasy monsters, such as ogres, dragons, water elementals, and giants.
• New monsters suitable for any fantasy or science fantasy world, such as ambush hags, virtuoso liches,
• fey guardians, mechadrons, and robots.
• New terrors from the ever-corrupting Void, such as voidlings, star crows, crimson jellies, and the mighty void dragon.

The Monster Vault contains all the information a GM needs to create encounters with monsters, including monster roles and tactics, guidelines for modifying monsters to fit your campaign, optional rules for Doom points, and rules for characters wanting to harvest monsters for unique crafting and spell components.

Join the Ranks of the Valiant!

The Tales of the Valiant RPG is a Black Flag Roleplaying Game from Kobold Press. Gather your friends and journey together across a labyrinth of worlds in search of adventure!

The 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.

Every adventure needs a beginning. Start your own tale in an infinite universe of high fantasy adventure with the Tales of the Valiant Player’s Guide! Within these pages, a trove of knowledge lies ready, waiting for the valiant to claim it! 

• Make your own unique, legendary hero with the new Lineage and Heritage system.
• Select Talents and Backgrounds that make your hero stand apart.
• Master improved spellcasting and martial abilities to ensure every hero stands tall in a fight!
• Explore new downtime, exploration, and social encounter rules to expand your game beyond the dungeon.

The Player’s Guide is a streamlined, 5E-compatible ruleset with unique mechanics to increase both risk and reward for adventurous players of all stripes!

Tales of the Valiant is a Black Flag Roleplaying Game from Kobold Press. Gather your friends and journey together across a labyrinth of worlds in search of adventure!

The all-new Deep Magic Volume 2 plus the remastered Volume 1 together in a beautiful slipcase!

Deep Magic 1

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!

Deep Magic 2

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 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

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

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!

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 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 

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

Designed to rest on the top of your DM screen, these 30 encounter cards feature all-new gorgeous artwork on the front and DM info on the back. DM info includes the full D&D stat block and exclusive Beadle & Grimm’s Tactical Tips.

Tactical Tips are combat hints for the DM provided in collaboration with award-winning monster combat blogger Keith Ammann.

"Never go into battle without a plan! With the Tactical Tips on these Encounter Cards, you'll never have to wonder what your monsters and NPCs are trying to do or how they should go about it. They know what they're doing—and so will you!"

- Keith Amman

Cards included in PACK 2:

• Aboleth
• Balor
• Black dragon, ancient
• Blue dragon, adult
• Blue dragon, young
• Clay golem
• Copper dragon, adult
• Dao
• Demilich
• Dragon turtle
• Drow priestess of Lolth
• Empyrean
• Erinyes
• Githyanki knight
• Goristro
• Green dragon, adult
• Hydra
• Iron golem
• Mind flayer
• Mummy lord
• Nalfeshnee
• Pit fiend
• Red dragon, young
• Remorhaz
• Roc
• Slaad, grey
• Spirit naga
• Stone giant
• Tarrasque
• Ultroloth

1. Combat Preferences. Many creatures prefer either melee or ranged combat, moving often or standing in place, and either absorbing or avoiding damage.
2. Flight Threshold. Whether a creature fights to the death or runs-and when.
3. Preferred Attack. Everyone has a go-to move.
4. The Basics. Their thing, in a nutshell.
5. Encounter Tips! 

Bardic Power of the Cosmos in the Palm of Your Hand!

These poker-sized cards feature spells from Deep Magic, ready for easy transport and reference wherever your adventures may take you.

This sturdy, board-game-style lift box includes

• More than 190 cards of spell levels 0 to 9 for Bards of any artistic inspiration
• Spells designed by Dan Dillon, Jeff Lee and Chris Harris
• Standard poker-sized cards fully compatible with other 5th Edition spell cards

Expand your game with Kobold Press!

Let the Monster Masters Guide You!

Classic monsters can get stale, and Game Masters often need to generate their own monstrosities to properly challenge players. But concepting, creating, and using monsters is no easy feat for any Game Master—and that’s where this book comes in.

In these pages, 15 of the brightest stars in the gaming industry share their wisdom for conceptualizing, developing, and maximizing the “Wow!” factor of monsters. Step by step, the writers show how to think up a new idea—or modify an existing one—then refine and test the design and get the absolute most out of the creature.

Ever wanted to build a monster from mythology or pop culture? Use psychology theory to power your monsters’ motivations? Get advice for when your players try to befriend a beast? This book has you covered! Through simple but effective techniques, these experts demonstrate how to:

• put an adversary’s environment and resources to best use
• employ common-sense motivations to guide a creature’s behavior and choices
• develop realistic alternatives to just fighting—and dying
• grab every player’s attention with powerful, sensory-filled descriptions
• make monsters much more than a piece of art coupled with a block of statistics!

Presented in thoughtful progression, this book contains essays by RPG veterans Monte Cook, Wolfgang Baur, Mike Mason, Crystal Frasier, Mike Shea, Shanna Germain, Steve Winter, and many more. They have created your favorite monsters from the most prominent roleplaying game publishers around. Now let them turn you into a Monster Master, too!

Within these dusty pages, uncover the secrets of the world—indeed, of the branches of the multiverse! Collected here are entire lost volumes of esoteric truths: the Warlock Grimoire 3.

Inside, find revelations and testimonials on monsters, magic, locales, and lore of Midgard:

• The life and times of the noble bearfolk, their Bear Maiden and their honey axes
• Mysteries of the quizzical ravenfolk, steeped in magic and myth
• Dangerous secrets kept by the druids, from dark trinkets to hidden circles
• Weird and quirky truths, from the Astral moons to the odd weather of the Wastes
• Details and history of the village of Redtower, ever in the shadow of the Scarlet Citadel
• Wondrous and mysterious locales of the Southlands, where adventure is abundant
• Sites of legend, their secrets uncovered, from the interplanar Stross Library to Terminus Island at the very edge of the world
• Mind-bending options for dungeons and new perspectives on their design and integration
• Rumors of the Dragon Empire and insights into just what the dragons are hiding
• Plus new subclasses, backgrounds, spells, magic items, monsters, and more!

Warlock Grimoire 3 presents the content from issues 20–28 of Warlock and includes the Warlock Guide to the Planes, answering secrets of the multiverse—and raising many more.

Uncover dark truths about the Midgard campaign setting or for worlds of your own creation!