A Horde of New 5th Edition Monsters!

DM: “A collection of hundreds of eyes floats down the corridor toward you, dripping caustic fluid that sizzles when it hits the ground. What do you do?”
PLAYER: “I retire and become a farmer.”

Whether you need dungeon vermin or world-shaking villains, the Tome of Beasts 1 (2023 edition) has it. This book presents more than 400 foes suitable for any campaign setting—from tiny drakes and peculiar spiders to demon lords and ancient dragons.

Tome of Beasts 1 (2023 edition) introduces new foes and upgrades monsters that originally appeared in Tome of Beasts, including:

* Updates to include errata and streamline mechanics
* 11 new creatures like the ashwalker, planewatcher, and the ancient cave dragon
* Expanded tables by creature type and terrain
* New monster art—and much more!

Give your players encounters they won’t soon forget. Now easier to run than ever!

What Changed?
Tome of Beasts 1 (2023 Edition) updates and polishes monsters that first appeared in the original Tome of Beasts in 2016. Those of you who own the 2016 version may be wondering: what changed? Well, a lot!

The bulk of the changes were to monster statistics and game rules, clarifying muddy rules, reworking traits and actions that didn’t work as intended, removing excess or uninteresting features, and adding new, flavorful features.

For a high-level overview of which monsters are new, which were removed, and which monsters got a glow up, keep reading!

New Monsters
Everyone likes new monsters. The new edition of Tome of Beasts has almost a dozen of them!

Those new monsters are:
* Annelidast
* Arx
* Ashwalker
* Caustic Charger
* Citrullus
* Necrohydra
* Nihilethic Dominator
* Planewatcher
* Quicksilver Siege Orb
* Strife
* Vengeful Spirit
* Volguloth

New-ish Monsters
Some monsters were missing full stat blocks, and others were reworked in such a way that a name change was required.

Those new-ish monsters are:
* Cave Dragon, Ancient
* Mithral Dragon, Wyrmling
* Ushabti (originally Shabti)
* Ushabti, Corrupted (originally Imy-ut Ushabti)
* Ushabti, Royal Guard (originally Ushabti)
* Vampire, Pact (originally Vampire Warlock)

Removed Monsters
Reworking a book that is several years old gives us the unique opportunity to review how monsters have been used and played over the years. In reviewing feedback, we discovered several monsters didn’t get a lot of play, were a bit too similar to other monsters in the book, were too setting-specific (particularly to our Midgard setting), or were considered deities or demi-gods in settings (especially in our Midgard setting). So we took some out.

Those removed monsters are:
* Andrenjinyi
* Arch-Devil Arbeyach
* Arch-Devil Mammon
* Arch-Devil Totivillus
* Boreas
* Demon Lord, Alquam
* Eleinomae
* Emperor of the Ghouls
* Koschei
* Rusalka
* Zaratan

Glow Up!
The other fun thing about reworking a book this old was opportunity to revisit some of the art. In many cases, this meant replacing old art, while in others this meant adding art to creatures that previously didn’t have it. Over 30 monsters got shiny new art

A Horde of New 5th Edition Monsters!

DM: “A collection of hundreds of eyes floats down the corridor toward you, dripping caustic fluid that sizzles when it hits the ground. What do you do?”
PLAYER: “I retire and become a farmer.”

Whether you need dungeon vermin or world-shaking villains, the Tome of Beasts 1 (2023 edition) has it. This book presents more than 400 foes suitable for any campaign setting—from tiny drakes and peculiar spiders to demon lords and ancient dragons.

Tome of Beasts 1 (2023 edition) introduces new foes and upgrades monsters that originally appeared in Tome of Beasts, including:

* Updates to include errata and streamline mechanics
* 11 new creatures like the ashwalker, planewatcher, and the ancient cave dragon
* Expanded tables by creature type and terrain
* New monster art—and much more!

Give your players encounters they won’t soon forget. Now easier to run than ever!

What Changed?
Tome of Beasts 1 (2023 Edition) updates and polishes monsters that first appeared in the original Tome of Beasts in 2016. Those of you who own the 2016 version may be wondering: what changed? Well, a lot!

The bulk of the changes were to monster statistics and game rules, clarifying muddy rules, reworking traits and actions that didn’t work as intended, removing excess or uninteresting features, and adding new, flavorful features.

For a high-level overview of which monsters are new, which were removed, and which monsters got a glow up, keep reading!

New Monsters
Everyone likes new monsters. The new edition of Tome of Beasts has almost a dozen of them!

Those new monsters are:
* Annelidast
* Arx
* Ashwalker
* Caustic Charger
* Citrullus
* Necrohydra
* Nihilethic Dominator
* Planewatcher
* Quicksilver Siege Orb
* Strife
* Vengeful Spirit
* Volguloth

New-ish Monsters
Some monsters were missing full stat blocks, and others were reworked in such a way that a name change was required.

Those new-ish monsters are:
* Cave Dragon, Ancient
* Mithral Dragon, Wyrmling
* Ushabti (originally Shabti)
* Ushabti, Corrupted (originally Imy-ut Ushabti)
* Ushabti, Royal Guard (originally Ushabti)
* Vampire, Pact (originally Vampire Warlock)

Removed Monsters
Reworking a book that is several years old gives us the unique opportunity to review how monsters have been used and played over the years. In reviewing feedback, we discovered several monsters didn’t get a lot of play, were a bit too similar to other monsters in the book, were too setting-specific (particularly to our Midgard setting), or were considered deities or demi-gods in settings (especially in our Midgard setting). So we took some out.

Those removed monsters are:
* Andrenjinyi
* Arch-Devil Arbeyach
* Arch-Devil Mammon
* Arch-Devil Totivillus
* Boreas
* Demon Lord, Alquam
* Eleinomae
* Emperor of the Ghouls
* Koschei
* Rusalka
* Zaratan

Glow Up!
The other fun thing about reworking a book this old was opportunity to revisit some of the art. In many cases, this meant replacing old art, while in others this meant adding art to creatures that previously didn’t have it. Over 30 monsters got shiny new art

A Horde of New 5th Edition Monsters, as Playable Pawns!

Over 300 pawns for your 5th Edition game featuring ferocious new monsters from the Tome of Beasts 2 - from Tiny to Huge!

Pawn stands not included.

From the creators of the original Tome of Beasts! Kobold Press is wrangling a new horde of wildly original, often lethal, and highly entertaining 5E-compatible monsters to challenge new players and veterans alike.

The Tome of Beasts II will bring 400 new monsters to 5th edition, from angelic enforcers, sasquatch and shriekbats, to psychic vampires, zombie dragons, and so much more.

From the creators of the original Tome of Beasts! Kobold Press is wrangling a new horde of wildly original, often lethal, and highly entertaining 5E-compatible monsters to challenge new players and veterans alike.

The Tome of Beasts II will bring 400 new monsters to 5th edition, from angelic enforcers, sasquatch and shriekbats, to psychic vampires, zombie dragons, and so much more.

An abandoned bardic college overrun with musical instruments come to life...
A druid’s hidden sanctuary filled with exotic, deadly plant creatures...
An ancient, once-dormant volcano, awakened and unleashing horrors...

Inside, you’ll find these adventures and more! Created for the 5th Edition of the world’s first roleplaying game, these 23 standalone, single-map adventures feature new monsters from Kobold Press’s Tome of Beasts 3. Run these as side quests alongside your ongoing campaign or as a one-shot change of pace. With adventures suitable for heroes of level 1–12, there are enough dangers, and pandemonium, for everyone!

Written by: Jon Sawatsky, Richard Green, Mike Welham, Kelly Pawlik, and more!

Tome of Beasts 3 Pawns features over 300 pawns for your 5th Edition game, featuring ferocious new monsters from the Tome of Beasts 3 from Small to Huge!

Pawn stands not included, but Pawns are compatible with the Pathfinder Pawns: Base Assortment.

A Flock of Ferocious Monsters for 5th Edition!

DM: “Inside the chest, you find a handful of potions.”
ROGUE: “Ooh! I’m going to take a taste. Let’s see what these—"
DM: “As you unstopper the first one, the potion itself leaps free of the bottle and attaches to your face.”
WIZARD: “Gah! I should have listened to my father and become a rug merchant!”

Whether you need creepy crawlies to clamber from the dark places or sinister visitors to make your favorite fantasy city come alive, Tome of Beasts 3 has what you’re looking for! From swamps to arctic tundra, mountains to deserts, and coastlines to badlands, every region is fully represented.

Tome of Beasts 3 brings you:
* Void knights and breakwater trolls
* Musk deer and fiend lords
* Prismatic dragons and royal chimeras
* Stained glass moths and voidclaw zombies
* Tar golems and witchwillows
* Kobold drake riders and hellfire giants

Terrify and delight your players with a whole host of new, exotic, and deadly opponents!

A Flock of Ferocious Monsters for 5th Edition!

DM: “Inside the chest, you find a handful of potions.”
ROGUE: “Ooh! I’m going to take a taste. Let’s see what these—”
DM: “As you unstopper the first one, the potion itself leaps free of the bottle and attaches to your face.”
WIZARD: “Gah! I should have listened to my father and become a rug merchant!”

Whether you need creepy crawlies to haunt the dark places or sinister visitors to make your favorite fantasy city come alive, Tome of Beasts 3 has what you’re looking for! From swamps to arctic tundra, mountains to deserts, and coastlines to badlands, every region is fully represented.

At 424 pages, Tome of Beasts 3 Pocket Edition brings you:
* Void knights and breakwater trolls
* Musk deer and fiend lords
* Prismatic dragons and royal chimeras
* Stained glass moths and voidclaw zombies
* Tar golems and witchwillows
* Kobold drake riders and hellfire giants

This beautiful, alternate version of the full book shows off a gorgeous foil-stamped cover, deluxe endpapers, and a ribbon bookmark.

A Flock of Ferocious Monsters for 5th Edition!

DM: “Inside the chest, you find a handful of potions.”
ROGUE: “Ooh! I’m going to take a taste. Let’s see what these—"
DM: “As you unstopper the first one, the potion itself leaps free of the bottle and attaches to your face.”
WIZARD: “Gah! I should have listened to my father and become a rug merchant!”

Whether you need creepy crawlies to clamber from the dark places or sinister visitors to make your favorite fantasy city come alive, Tome of Beasts 3 has what you’re looking for! From swamps to arctic tundra, mountains to deserts, and coastlines to badlands, every region is fully represented.

Tome of Beasts 3 brings you:
* Void knights and breakwater trolls
* Musk deer and fiend lords
* Prismatic dragons and royal chimeras
* Stained glass moths and voidclaw zombies
* Tar golems and witchwillows
* Kobold drake riders and hellfire giants

Terrify and delight your players with a whole host of new, exotic, and deadly opponents!

Adventure & Glory Await!

The Tome of Heroes is the essential expansion for every 5th Edition roleplayer. It contains rules for new character races and subclasses, weapon options, and powerful spells, as well as new equipment, expanded magic rules, and much more.

With 5th Edition roleplaying, enter a world of deep dungeons, harsh wilderness, and thriving cities, ready to battle everything from goblins to dragons. Sharpen your skills, discover mythic treasures, and give your character powerful new options to turn back the creatures of darkness.

Create heroes of legend, ready to take their place in song and saga. Take up your sword and staff, and seize your destiny!

Adventure & Glory Await!

The Tome of Heroes Pocket Edition is the essential expansion for every 5th Edition roleplayer. It contains rules for new character races and subclasses, weapon options, and powerful spells, as well as new equipment, expanded magic rules, and much more.

With 5th Edition roleplaying, enter a world of deep dungeons, harsh wilderness, and thriving cities, ready to battle everything from goblins to dragons. Sharpen your skills, discover mythic treasures, and give your character powerful new options to turn back the creatures of darkness.

Create heroes of legend, ready to take their place in song and saga. Take up your sword and staff, and seize your destiny!

Darkness, discovery, and death in the Underworld

An encampment of the drow defending an Underworld entrance.
A cathedral lit by the eerie green glow of thousands of candles.
A powerful lich inhabiting the corpse of a giant petrified worm.

Inside, you'll find these and more! More than a dozen standalone, single-map adventures for characters of levels 3 to 14 will challenge players with derro and darakhul encounters, fantastical locations like the Skullcap Forest and an outpost of the Ghoul Imperium, and powerful opposition like a clan of cave giants known as the Sunseeker tribe.

Use these as a stop along your campaign or in a single, standalone session. Whether a party of heroes or characters of flexible moral fiber, they will enjoy the struggle and triumph of these Underworld Lairs. That is, unless the cave dragon adds them to the foundation of his ziggurat of bones!

For the 5th Edition of the world's first roleplaying game.

Inside Vault of Magic, you`ll find a vast treasure trove of enchanted items of every imaginable use, more than 900 in all!

There are plenty of armors, weapons, potions, rings, and wands, but that`s just for starters. From mirrors to masks, edibles to earrings, and lanterns to lockets, it`s all here, ready for you to use in your 5th Edition game.

Unlock a Shadowy Archive!
DARKLY FANTASTIC MATERIAL FOR THE WORLD'S FIRST RPG

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. Only for you, the Warlock Grimoire.

Dark revelations and wondrous testimonials of dark fantasy monsters and magic, locales and lore of Midgard:

* The very literal underbelly of the Crossroads city of Zobeck
* Miraculous and horrific details of the dead returned to life
* Oddities and revels that could come only from the courts of those twisted fey
* A shadow economy of crime thriving throughout the trade cities and merchant quarter
* Tentacled legacies of the dark gods, from the unwholesome jungles to ghoul-haunted hillsides
* Terrible truths on the ongoing practices of dread magicks
* Vivid accounts of magical disasters, badlands, and ruins
* Looming terror and majestic insights of the expansive Dragon Empire
* Visions of Yggdrasil, the World Tree, leading toward all points of the multiverse
* Even a tantalizing glimpse of the fabled City of Brass
* Plus 6 subclasses, 13 statted NPCs, 28 spells, 44 magic items, 44 monsters, and more!

The Warlock Grimoire presents the content from the first ten issues of Warlock and includes an entire issue's worth of new, never-before-seen lore and game elements, detailing life in the Ironcrags, recent events along the west coast of the Wasted West, the dedication and intensity of Perunalian archers, and the holy drive of the paladins of the Sun God.

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

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. Only for you, the Warlock Grimoire 2.

Dark revelations and wondrous testimonials of dark fantasy monsters and magic, locales and lore of Midgard:

* Details on the indefatigable halflings: the winterfolk, riverfolk, and courtfolk
* Explosive realities of dwarven firearms and airships
* Hidden vaults filled with treasure and danger
* Potent magics and professions from the trenches of wartime
* Magic-slinging NPCs to fill any role, ready to go
* An epidemic of automata and a proliferation of clockwork druids
* Ancient and mysterious vril-powered artifacts
* Gothic horrors of the Blood Kingdom, vampires and more
* Boss monsters to capstone any adventure
* Even a tour of the Eleven Hells and the infernal crossroads town of Smoke
* Plus 10 subclasses, 7 backgrounds, 9 feats, 29 complete NPCs, 2 diseases, 24 spells & invocations, 96 magic items & equipment, 42 monsters, and much more!

The Warlock Grimoire 2 presents the content from issues 11–19 of Warlock and includes an entire issue's worth of new, never-before-seen lore and game elements, including both the mysteriously desolated Southlands city of Iram and the secrets of Grandmother herself, Baba Yaga.

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

Warlock Lairs: Into the Wilds presents fourteen wilderness-themed Warlock Lairs, collected here with four brand-new adventures.

Ranging from 1st to 10th level, there`s so much to discover. The opportunities for secrets and treasures are great--and so are the risks. But you wouldn`t have it any other way. Explore the wilds of the Midgard campaign setting or worlds of your own creation!

The ENNIE Award-winning Kobold Guide series returns with the Kobold Guide to Monsters!

This definitive tome about tabletop RPG creature creation and their use at the gaming table contains invaluable insight and advice from some of the top minds in roleplaying game design today.

A wide range of philosophy and perspectives are on display in these pages, including how to design monsters based on mythology, literature, or pop culture; how to balance a monster's flavor with functionality; how to reskin monsters for any genre of campaign; how to make friends with even the most snarling beasts; how to tell a story with an encounter; how to best pace an encounter, and much more.

With essays grouped by subject matter, from monster design to encounter design, and presented in thoughtful progression, this tome is the perfect companion for Game Masters and players alike who want to learn from the very best. It's a great gift for budding game designers, and it's the perfect impulse buy for games of all stripes!

Authors include:
* Monte Cook
* Mike Mason
* Wolfgang Baur
* Steve Winter
* Shanna Germain
* Vee Mus'e
* Crystal Frasier
* Mike Shea

And many more gaming luminaries!

Confront Evil in its Den!

To seasoned adventurers, the doom-laden chanting of priests and the cackling of evil wizards can only mean one thing: deadly peril, and the chance for treasure! (Okay, those are two things.)

Eldritch Lairs brings you eight complete adventures for 4th to 8th level player characters, set in the magic-blasted wilderness, dungeons, and deserts.

Strange Doings in the Sultan’s Charnel House...

Lo! The corpse of poor, departed Scholar Zubayr, washed up on the shores of the River of Sand, lies in the charnel house... destined to become dinner for a cult of cannibals. Though distasteful in the extreme, this isn’t your concern—except that Princess Karima Gamila, the most beautiful gnoll in Per-Bastet, has begged you to rescue her friend’s body and help discover his fate.

Still unmoved to action? Know then, adventurer, that the Scholar was hot on the trail of lost treasure! If you can claim his body from the cult and decipher the clues he left behind, long-buried riches and powerful magic might be yours.

But nothing is simple in this city of dark wonders: others converge on the charnel house in pursuit of wealth, vengeance, or both. Can you out-fight and outwit vile cultists, undead catfolk, a cunning werecrocodile gnoll, and the deadly secrets that lie buried beneath the River of Sand?

Grimalkin is an adventure for 3rd to 5th level characters and compatible with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Set in the city of Per-Bastet in the Southlands Campaign Setting, it is meant for play either as the thrilling sequel to Cat and Mouse, or as a standalone treasure hunt!