Editing Kobold Press

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'''Kobold Press''' is a 3rd-party publisher who produces materials for [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. Most of their work revolves around their own homebrew world, [[Midgard]], although some of their supplements, in particular their [[Tome of Beasts|bestiaries]], tend to be presented in a more setting neutral fashion.

The company made its debut during the golden age of [[Paizo]] and 3rd-party publishing, cashing in on the sudden massive swell of [[Pathfinder Roleplaying Game|Pathfinder 1st Edition]] after [[Wizards of the Coast]] foolishly tried to restrict the [[OGL]] as part of the already poorly-received [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]] launch. This lasted until the creation of [[Pathfinder Second Edition]] and [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]], when Kobold Press abandoned their Pathfinder roots and instead jumped ship to producing works for D&D 5e instead.

Nobody knows if this is because 5e had displaced PF1e as the biggest D&D-related title on the market, or because they believed that PF2e was going to go down even worse than D&D 4e had, or both. In either case, the decision had proved to be profitable for them, as they similarly rode the massive surge of popularity 5E got.

However, things have changed a lot since then. In January 2023, amid the disastrous scandal of the [[One D&D]] [[OGL]] leak, Kobold Press announced on their blog that, whilst they intended to finish their remaining 5e products that had been launched on [[Kickstarter]], they were jumping ship again, this time to a new open-source "Core Fantasy" tabletop ruleset of their own design under the name "Project: [[Pirate|Black Flag]]" before being renamed a more generic "Tales of the Valiant". While officially this was intended to "preserve their values", everybody knew this was a reaction to WotC shooting themselves in the head with the OGL 1.1 scam. They are also working with Paizo again to help solidify unity for the ORC License, along with several other 3PP publishers.

[[Category: Publishers]] [[Category: Dungeons & Dragons]] [[Category: Midgard]]