In December 2023 we presented the new Kobold Guides Bundle featuring Kobold Press essay collections about game design and gameplay. In these nine .PDF ebooks, dozens of experienced designers have contributed more than 200 practical, thought-provoking essays on worldbuilding, magic systems, combat, and crafting compelling stories. Use the advice in these authoritative essays to think about games like the professionals do.
There were nine complete volumes of essays in our Kobold Guide Collection (retail value $125) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including Kobold Guides to Board Game Design, Combat, Complete Game Design Second Edition, Gamemastering, Magic, Monsters, Plots & Campaigns, Worldbuilding, and Worldbuilding, Vol 2.
Six of these Kobold Guides previously appeared in one or another of five Worldbuilder’s Toolkit offers in 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2021. (Those are Toolkits #1, 4, 5, 7, and 8.) The three titles new to the Bundle of Holding – Board Game Design, Monsters, and Worldbuilding Vol. 2 – have a combined retail value of $41.
