For several weeks, we’ve taken a look back at 20 years of Kobold Press—where we started, the milestones that shaped us, and the people and games that helped us grow. It’s been a celebration of our past, but today we’re turning our attention where it belongs: forward.
Since the calendar insists on reminding us that it’s April 1st, let’s be clear right from the start: we ain’t foolin’. Everything you’re about to read is real, in motion, and part of the future years of Kobold Press!
Expanding What Kobold Press Creates
Kobold Press has never been a publisher that does just one thing. We’ve published magazines, adventures, sourcebooks, campaign settings, bestiaries, and tools for game masters across multiple systems and styles of play. That spirit of experimentation and expansion hasn’t slowed down.
In the coming years, you’ll continue to see Kobold Press broaden the kinds of games we create. We started with RiverBank, the cozy chaos roleplaying game and Necromancer, a take-that card game co-designed by our own Kobold-in-Chief, Wolfgang Baur. But we’re far from done! Tabletop roleplaying remains at our core, but it’s no longer the only way we’re telling stories or building worlds.
Card games are an area of ongoing development for us. These projects let us explore new mechanics, reach different kinds of players, and bring the worlds you know in fresh, accessible formats. They’re being designed with the same care, art direction, and worldbuilding that define our RPGs—just in a form you can shuffle, deal, and bring to game night.
Many Systems, One Kobold Spirit
If you look back to our earliest days, Kobold Press has always been a multi-system publisher. Long before it was common, we wrote for different rulesets, adapting our worlds and stories so more tables could experience them. That philosophy is still a cornerstone of how we operate.
Great worlds and great adventures shouldn’t be locked to a single engine—not even our own, Tales of the Valiant RPG. (Player’s Guide 2 just arrived a few weeks ago, and gives players LOTS more options.) As the tabletop space evolves, new systems bring fresh design ideas, new audiences, and opportunities to tell stories in ways that weren’t possible before.
That doesn’t mean we’re stepping away from the systems that brought us here—we remain fully committed to publishing for both Tales of the Valiant and Dungeons & Dragons. It simply means you’ll start seeing a new additions to the lineup as we grow and explore what’s possible in tabletop gaming.
Behind the scenes, we’re having ongoing conversations about future systems, collaborations, and partnerships. These discussions are happening quietly, carefully, and with a lot of excitement on all sides. Our goal: to ensure Kobold Press stories and settings reach players wherever they play—and to bring new ideas back into our design process along the way.
Looking Ahead to October
We’re not quite ready to share all the details just yet. Big partnerships and new systems take time to build well, and we want to reveal them when we can show you exactly what they mean at the table—not just in a press release.
Here’s what we can say: you’ll hear more at our Scarecase in October 2026. That event will be the stage for several major announcements about where Kobold Press is heading next—new systems, new collaborations, and new ways to explore the worlds we’ve been building together for two decades.
Still Kobold, Still Independent, Still Adventuring
Through all this growth and change, Kobold Press remains committed to the same principles that carried us through our first 20 years—creator-driven design, deep worldbuilding, community, and a love of tabletop games in all their forms.
We started as a small, scrappy publisher making the kinds of games we wanted to play. Twenty years later, that same spirit guides every project we greenlight and every partnership we explore.
So no, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. There’s no punchline waiting at the bottom of the page. Just a promise: we’re still building, still experimenting, and still planning for the next 20 years of Kobold Press.
And we can’t wait to show you what’s next.
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