Fantastic Maps - Iconic Town

The Iconic Town, a new offering from Jonathan Roberts (Fantastic Maps, George R.R. Martin's The Lands of Ice and Fire), gives you an archive of images more packed than a country lane on Market day! This elegant, coastal town is anything but simple with labeled and spoiler-free unlabeled versions, gorgeous color and printer-friendly black &am...   [click here for more]

Fantastic Maps - Trader's Warf

Fantastic Maps and Blackstar Games present: 

Trader's Warf

This multi-page PDF allows you...   [click here for more]

Fantastic Maps: Arena of Fire

Fantastic Maps: 

Arena of Fire

Jonathan Roberts cartographer for Kobold Quarterly, Sunken Empires, and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents another Fantastic Map: "Arena of Fire".

This multi-page PDF allows you to print out both battlemaps (above and below ground) at a 1 square=1 inch ...   [click here for more]

Fantastic Maps: Black Sky Butte

Jonathan Roberts cartographer, for Wrath of the River King and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents “A Witch's Choice” map: “Black Sky Butte".

This multi-page PDF allows you to print out both battlemaps (above and below ground) at a 1 square=1 inch scale as a letter-format map and is also available in a printer-friendly light grayscale version. High-Resolution JPEG...   [click here for more]

Fantastic Maps: Glass Ships and Icebergs

Fantastic Maps: 

Glass Ships and Icebergs

Jonathan Roberts cartographer for Kobold Quarterly, Sunken Empires, and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents another Fantastic Map: "Glass Ships and Icebergs".

This multi-page PDF allows you to print out both battlemaps (above and bel...   [click here for more]

Fantastic Maps: Lone Island in the Sky

Jonathan Roberts cartographer, for Wrath of the River King and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents “A Witch's Choice” map: “Lone Island in the Sky. This multi-page PDF allows you to print out the battlemap at a 1 inch=1 square scale as a letter-format map and is also available in a printer-friendly light grayscale version.

  You see a great gassar tree r...   [click here for more]

Fantastic Maps: Necromancer's Lair

Enter the abode of fell theurgy with the Kobold!

Cartographer Jonathan Roberts created this map for Kobold Quarterly #13 and, in collaboration with Open Design, we are happy to bring it to you today as "Fantastic Maps: Necromancer's Lair".

This map pack includes:

Fantastic Maps: Pirate Ship

Hard a'starboard and cram on full sail! Chase down those scurvy dogs and send them to a watery grave.

Jonathan Roberts, cartographer for Kobold Quarterly, Sunken Empires, and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents another Fantastic Map: "Pirate Ship".

Fantastic Maps: Temple Mound

Fantastic Maps: 

Temple Mound

Jonathan Roberts cartographer for Kobold Quarterly, Frozen Empires, and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents another Fantastic Map: "Temple Mound”.

This multi-page PDF allows you to print out both battlemaps (above and below ground) at a 1 square=1 inch sca...   [click here for more]

Fantastic Maps: The Bandit's Lair

Seek the hideout of brigands with 

the Kobold!

Jonathan Roberts cartographer for Kobold Quarterly, Sunken Empires, and Coliseum Morpheuon, presents another Fantastic Map: "The Bandit's Lair." Take your adventures into the wret...   [click here for more]

Fantastic Maps: The Dragon's Lair

Jonathan Roberts cartographer for Kobold Quarterly and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents another Fantastic Map: "The Dragon's Lair”. This multi-page PDF allows you to print out the battlemap at a 1 square=1 inch scale as a letter-format map and is also available in a printer-friendly light grayscale version. High-Resolution Jpegs of the Maps with and without grids. The file al...   [click here for more]

Fantastic Maps: The Glass Balcony

Jonathan Roberts cartographer, for Wrath of the River King and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents “A Witch's Choice” map: “The Glass Balcony”. This multi-page PDF allows you to print out the battlemap at a 1 inch=1 square scale as a letter-format map and is also available in a printer-friendly light grayscale version.

Fantastic Maps: The Ice Temple

Jonathan Roberts cartographer, for Kobold Quarterly and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents: “The Ice Temple”. This multi-page PDF allows you to print out the battlemap at a 1 inch=1 square scale as a letter-format map and is also available in a printer-friendly light grayscale version.

 A dragon hangs in the frozen waterfall, trapped by ancient ritual....   [click here for more]

Fantastic Maps: The Leafless Wood

Jonathan Roberts cartographer, for Wrath of the River King and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents “A Witch's Choice” map: “The Leafless Wood”. This multi-page PDF allows you to print out the battlemap at a 1 inch=1 square scale as a letter-format map and is also available in a printer-friendly light grayscale version.

 The wind dies and the sky darkens...   [click here for more]

Fantastic Maps: The Ruined Library

Fantastic Maps: 

The Ruined Library

Jonathan Roberts cartographer for Kobold Quarterly, Sunken Empires, and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents another Fantastic Map: "The Ruined Library”.

This multi-page PDF allows you to print out both battlemaps (above and below ground) at a 1 ...   [click here for more]

Fantastic Maps: The Ship's Graveyard

Seek the final resting place of the great ships with the Kobold!

Jonathan Roberts cartographer for Kobold Quarterly, Sunken Empires, and Coliseum Morpheuon, presents another Fantastic Map: "The Ship's Graveyard." Take your adventures to the silty bottom of the cold, briny d...   [click here for more]

Fantastic Maps: The Temple

Fantastic Maps: 

The Temple

This multi-page PDF allows you to print out the battlemap at a 1 square=1 inch scale as a letter-fo...   [click here for more]

Fantastic Maps: Tree Bridge

Jonathan Roberts cartographer for Kobold Quarterly and Adventures in the Hyborian Age, presents “To Kill or Not To Kill” map: “Tree Bridge”. This multi-page PDF allows you to print out the battlemap at a 1 square=1 inch scale as a letter-format map and is also available in a printer-friendly light grayscale version.

 The immense islands of earth block out th...   [click here for more]

Fold-N-Go: Castle Kit #1

All of these endeavors have greater meaning when your characters are fighting for more than lines on a map drawn with a dry-erase pen. Give the players something they can look at with awe and desire, something that inspires them to act like heroes instead of ...   [click here for more]

KOBOLD Guide to Worldbuilding

Roleplaying games and fantasy fiction are filled with rich and fascinating worlds: the Forgotten Realms, Glorantha, Narnia, R'lyeh, Middle-Earth, Barsoom, and so many more. It took startling leaps of imagination as well as careful thought and planning to create places like these: places that readers and players want to come back to again and again....   [click here for more]