Once a year, we open the gates. This is your chance to walk through them.
One of the best things about Kobold Press has always been our community. We don’t just make games for our community—we make them with our community. We listen in our Discord server, we playtest alongside you, and we open for contributions with a Kobold Press Open Call.
Once a year, we invite our backers to pitch us an adventure idea. From those pitches, we choose one to become a fully published Kobold Press adventure. The winner works directly with Kobold Press, is contracted, paid, and credited for their work, and then sees their adventure published.
Many of our past Open Call winners have gone on to write for Kobold Press again and again. An Open Call can start a long-running relationship between a creator and our team.
Naturally, we’re taking this year’s Open Call somewhere very dark – the UNDERWORLD!
Welcome to the Underworld
As part of the Underworld: Sunless Depths Kickstarter, we’re inviting backers to dream up an adventure set in the darkest depths of any world.
Maybe your heroes are trapped beneath a ruined city. Maybe they’ve stumbled into a forgotten kingdom buried miles below the surface. Maybe something ancient waits in the dark—and your adventurers are foolish enough to go looking for it.
We want to see what you’ve got.
How It Works
Backers at the CAN$35 level and up are invited to submit one short adventure pitch featuring foes from D&D 5E and Tales of the Valiant.
You don’t need a finished adventure. You don’t need a publishing history. You just need an idea that makes us want to descend into the darkness of Underworld and find out what happens next.
The basics:
- Back at $35 or more on the Underworld: Sunless Depths Kickstarter.
- October 12: We’ll post submission details exclusively for backers in a Kickstarter update.
- October 30: Pitch submissions are due.
- One pitch per backer.
- A Kobold Press team member will select the winning pitch.
- The winner will be contracted, paid, and credited for their adventure.
- Kobold Press will publish the finished adventure in 2027 as part of the Underworld release.
One pledge. One idea. One opportunity to see your adventure become a real Kobold Press publication.
Why Open Calls?
Open Calls are about more than finding a great adventure. They’re about giving the people who love these games a chance to help shape them.
We’ve watched Open Call winners become trusted Kobold Press contributors, returning to write more adventures, monsters, and material for our games. Just think, an idea cooked up at your kitchen table may be exactly what we are looking for!
Back the Underworld: Sunless Depths Kickstarter at CAN$35 or more, start sharpening your pencils, and start thinking about what lurks in the darkness.
Because this year, the next Kobold Press adventure might be yours.
Underworld: Sunless Depths is live now on Kickstarter. Bring a backup torch.
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