Week 2: Scouting Party, Player Option Details, and the World Anvil Livestream!
4 months ago
– Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 03:26:29 PM
It's official! The good folks at Kickstarter have deemed Night Hunters, the two-book horror toolkit, a “Project We Love” by Kickstarter. It's a great nod of recognition from the platform, and a sign of how this project is being embraced by the games world.
And as of today, five stretch goals have been unlocked: the dread villain tracker PDF, two adventures, and two sets of dastardly foes, one focussed on Aberrations, the second on wilderness foes.
And there's more on the horizon: foil stamping for the cards in the Shadow Oracle, and more adventurers. Your support makes it possible, but let's get some details and previews, shall we?
Kobold Press has gotten lots of questions about EXACTLY what player options are available in the Night Huntersbook. You can find some of the answers in the free Preview PDF and its table of contents, but let's go a bit deeper.
To answer some community questions, Kendo sat down with designers Celeste Conowitch and Sarah Madsen to give you the inside scoop. If you missed this first Scouting Party, you can watch it on our YouTube channel.
In this new Scouting Party video, the team dives into: What character options can you expect from Night Hunters? Get more details on the new lineages, subclasses, and fabled magic items you’ll find in the books in this YouTube summary of highlights and horrors.
And there's more! That Scouting Party also includes a deeper look at the tone, themes, and the Hunter's Arsenal that make Night Hunters unlike anything else in the world of horror RPGs.
Lead Designer Celeste Conowitch and the Kobold-in-Chief Wolfgang Baur, presented a livestream Horror Q&A with the folks at World Anvil this past Saturday, and provided both general guidance on how to run horror games effectively, and specific mechanics from the Night Hunters core books.
Dig into the world of Night Hunters, find out what scares a Kobold most, and hear about our latest foray into gothic horror and Dread Villains. It's all available on TwitchTV here.
That's it for this week. Please do share and repost the news about Night Hunters on your favorite platforms, to help us reach the next goals.
Yours in slowly building dread and anticipation,
The Kobolds
Week 1: Details for 4 Unlocked Items
5 months ago
– Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 03:53:15 PM
Hello, everyone!Thank you so much for your support this first week, during which you’ve unlocked 4—count 'em FOUR—major stretch goals! Here are details on when these rewards will be sent to you.
UNLOCK #!: The first unlocked item is our form-fillable tracker, which makes it easy to track Dread Villains and long-term antagonists, keeping them and their minions organized and ready to make the players sweat.
No one likes an untidy villain with tangled plotlines...
This item will be distributed to backers via Kickstarter messaging in late February.
UNLOCK #2! Take a deeper dive into aberrations with new mechanics options for running these monsters, practical lore you can actually use, and guidance on featuring them as major antagonists in your campaign. Explore the creepy wrongness of creatures that lurk just out of sight. Experience beings that bring dreams of madness or confront horrible failed experiments and terrifying visitors from otherworldly places. All this and more make aberrations the dastardly foes they deserve to be.
This PDF will be distributed to backers via Kickstarter ain late February or early March.
UNLOCK #3! The mayor of Fedderholm's son is afflicted with a vile curse. A powerful relic known as the Coal Heart, the boy's only hope for recovery, lies within a sealed dungeon filled with traps and puzzles. But even if the characters can return with the cure and save the child, others wish to claim the artifact for themselves.
This standalone pdf by DMs Guild designer Jeff Stevens will be distributed to backers via Kickstarter messaging after the Kickstarter closes.
UNLOCK #4! A temple built to pay homage to deceased dragonkind welcomed pilgrims from distant places. They braved dangerous passes to bring offerings to honor the dead and commune with them through the power of magical moonlight. But the temple fell to a malevolent darkness that turned the place into a nightmarish laboratory for research into undeath. Many victims suffered and some still roam its halls. Can heroes break the curse and return the temple to its former moonlit glory?
Designed by B. Dave Walters and Beth the Bard—check the Design Diary for more.
This adventure will be included in all print, VTT, and PDF editions of the Night Terrors adventure collection.
Check out today’s blog and cast your vote for which subclass you want to see next!
WHEW! WHATTA WEEK!
That feels like a LOT for the very first days of Night Hunters! It's been a big week, and we thank you all for your support.
Now we return to our web-strewn lairs, unmarked graves, and various environs for the weekend, to gather strength for next week's unlocks...
The Kobolds
Funded and Unlocked
5 months ago
– Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 09:29:08 AM
Our backers never cease to amaze us—and clearly you're a bloodthirsty lot!
Well, we love horror gaming too, and we’re incredibly grateful for your support. An extra-special thank you to those of you who shared or liked the teasers and announcements leading up to the launch of this project. You helped us reach the goal in only one hour!
With 30 days remaining, we aim to hit as many stretch goals as possible, because each one adds to your project rewards. Here's what backers have unearthed so far!
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Dread Villain Tracker - New PDF tracker sheet designed to help Game Masters easily track their Dread Villains and major antagonists across an entire campaign.
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Dastardly Foes Part I: Unnatural Order - This monster-based expansion covers Aberrations. Designed by Phillip Larwood, this 12-page PDF expansion for Night Hunters will be sent to all backers at the C$35 or higher level after crowdfunding closes.
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Skeleton Key Adventure, Level 1 by Jeff Stevens - The mayor's son is afflicted with a vile curse. A powerful relic is the boy's only hope for recovery, but it lies within a sealed dungeon filled with traps and puzzles. If the characters return with it to save the child, others try to claim the artifact for themselves! All backers at the C$35 or higher levels get a copy after crowdfunding closes.
More to come, of course, including an adventure by B. Dave Walters and other Dastardly Foes.
During the next 30 days, you can expect roughly one update a week with information about add ons, unlocked stretch goals, and Night Hunters art and news. After the Kickstarter closes, expect one update a month explaining the survey progress and delivery of rewards. That’s all for now—thank you for your support!
The Kobolds
