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Tales of the Valiant Player’s Guide Reviewed

Jul 13, 2024

Title: Tales of the Valiant Player’s Guide

Authors: Celeste Conowitch, JB Little, Sarah Madsen, and Sebastian Rombach

Artists: Hugh Pindur, Paola Andreatta, Darren Calvert, Basith Ibrahim, Maria Viktoria Kanellopoulou, Erika Lundrigan, William O’Brien, Corwin Paradinha, Ian Perks, Roberto Pitturru, Addison Rankin, Kiki Moch Rizki, Florian Stitz, Bryan Syme, and Egil Thompson

Year: 2024

Genre: Core rulebook for the Tales of the Valiant fantasy roleplaying game

Pages: 386 pages

MSRP: $59.99 for the hardcover or $34.99 in PDF alone at DriveThruRPG

I share my thoughts about the core rulebook for the high fantasy roleplaying game Tales of the Valiant from Kobold Press. The Player’s Guide contains all the character creation options, gear, weapons, magic items, spells, and rules to get you playing. The RPG is very 5E Dungeons & Dragons adjacent but is it TOO adjacent? You’ll find out!

Tales of the Valiant Player's Guide Reviewed

SUMMARY

I do like the Player's Guide for Tales of the Valiant and give it a recommendation. Yet, I think this was a real missed opportunity for Kobold Press to make an RPG which stands apart from 5E. In the end this is far, far too similar (or even identical) to D&D to place the game into it's own space rather than simply orbiting the current and future editions of Dungeons & Dragons.

Jeff McAleer

Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media, Jeff tackles any and all sorts of games but has a special fondness for strategy, conflict sims, and roleplaying games. Plus, he's certainly never at a loss for an opinion...