Koboa June 2026 Update
15 days ago
– Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 08:47:46 AM
Hi all!
We've been hearing from y'all what you think of the PDF and we're deeply grateful for all your feedback. We love to hear your stories of the characters you've created and the elements from the Koboa book you've integrated into your games! Keep it coming!
We've been getting the files for the physical products ready. The pins and map are ready to go into production, as are the dice. The book file is undergoing final revision and we're finishing up our files for the GM screen, reference cards, and standees.
Meanwhile the full ToV conversion is finished and undergoing an editing pass. PF2 is going a bit slower, as some snags have come up, but progress continues.
We'd love to see your thoughts on social media! feel free to tag us, we're excited to keep seeing everything you say about Koboa!
KOBOA PDF IS OUT! And May 2026 Update
about 2 months ago
– Thu, Apr 30, 2026 at 07:06:51 AM
THE PDF IS OUT!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
It should be available via backerkit. Please get in touch if you should have gotten it but haven't by tomorrow (not sure how long it takes to get distributed).
Please take a look, give us feedback, and consider joining the discord to share thoughts and tell us about your adventures and characters!
With this PDF released, we will now start getting our last round of pre-orders before sending numbers to our manufacturers, we're hoping we'll create a manufacturing order by the end of May. After that we just need to wait for product to get made, shipped, and then distributed/fulfilled.
Before I finish, our layout lead, Manchae, has a few words (and a gift) for you as well -
Hello, Hola and Olá, my soon to be fellow-Koboans.
It's finally here. The book we spent years writing, sketching, adjusting, layouting and polishing. It's amazing to see the finished piece, but it's even more rewarding getting to deliver it to all of you.
I want to personally thank you all for the support and patience with the team and the reschedules. I went through not one, but multiple life-threatening conditions during this time, and this is one of the reasons we took so long. However, you stayed by our side, had patience and understanding, and allowed me to deliver one of the works I'm most proud of being a part of.
To celebrate, I'm offering you a PDF with a new Koboan subclass, the Way of The Chancla Master Monk. It's an homage to our latinidad and a fun addition to the amazing player options we already have in the book.
You could say I'm the first to release Koboa fan content with this one. Can't wait to see what you all are gonna bring to the table too. We, for sure, will keep working hard from our side.
Thank you for believing in us.
Much love,
~Manchae
March 2026 Update!
4 months ago
– Sun, Mar 01, 2026 at 12:26:45 PM
Hello everyone!
The team has made fantastic progress this month. We feel good saying that we expect the 5e PDF to be done by mid-April if not possibly (fingers crossed) sooner.
Here's the status on each chapter alongside estimated page counts (keep in mind page counts aren't all finalized yet so they might change a bit):
Chapters 0 and 1: Intros, table of contents, etc (11 pages) layout pass 90% done
Chapter 2: Player options (115 pages) layout pass done, proofread 75% done
Chapter 3: The World (74 pages) A few minor text corrections and then it will be finalized
Chapter 4: Wisdoms (24 pages) layout pass done, proofread 50% done
Chapter 5: Creatures (52 pages) Finalized
Chapter 6: Appendices and Bios (haven't gotten page count yet) Appendices done, bios 70% done
As you can see the bulk of the work is done, we are at the stage where we're mostly rereading all the stuff we wrote and finding mostly minor corrections to make, all of which is moving very quickly.
Here's a preview for the month, the full magic items section. As always, we love to hear your comments, questions, feedback.
A question was also asked about the other products, so I'll go over them here:
Digital Stuff
5e Koboa in Spanish - we will begin our Spanish Localization when the 5e English PDF is finalized, our localizer is very excited to get started.
5e Koboa in Portuguese - We've been going back and forth with some licensing deal options we have to get a localized version and making it available in Brazil in some cool ways! We are in advanced talks with a party that is interested and should have more news soon.
PF2 Koboa - We've converted a few things (including all the forms and most of the class/subclass stuff). Once our focus shifts from the 5e book and manufacturing things we will focus on completing the conversion.
ToV Koboa - We've converted most things. Once our focus shifts from the 5e book and manufacturing things we will focus on finishing the conversion and getting it all edited.
Physical Stuff Status
Before talking about the status of everything, I'll note that due to the chaos and disarray happening from the Tariff situation, we have been working hard on figuring out exactly what our plan for manufacturing and distribution will be. We have been spending a lot of time looking at options and figuring out what will work best for us and all of you. Because of this, we are holding off on finalizing some designs before we settle on a manufacturer, as we'll want to work with them and their templates to ensure everything gets manufactured perfectly.
Cloth Map. The design is done
GM Screen. The design for the art side is done, the GM-facing side design still needs to get made.
Standee Set. The design is done, we just need to put it on templates once we have templates.
Reference Card Set. We have plans for the designs and what the cards will be, but are waiting to settle on a manufacturer before really diving into it.
Resin Dice Set. Designs, molds, and prototypes are made.
Gemstone Dice Set. Designs and prototypes are made
Pin Sets. Designs are made.
I think that's all. Thank you all for being incredible backers and your patience!
Adrián
We have a community spotlight for this update! It looks very cool and we'd love to share it with you while their crowdfunding still is underway.
Magika Nostalgika is a collection of magic items inspired by popular toys of the 90s and the wish-inducing catalogs that contained them.
Back it here!
Inspired by popular toys of the 90s and the wish-inducing catalogs that contained them, Magika Nostalgika is a zine of magic items for D&D 5e. This 5.5" x 8.5", full-color, 16-page TTRPG zine contains 20+ new magic items such as:
Bonk-It
Yeoman’s Oscillating Yewen Orbicular
Soaker Supreme
PlayWell Bricks
Figures of Action
And More!
Written and illustrated by Matthew Sargent, a professional artist, TTRPG player, and 90's kid from Chicago. He is the creator of the ska-inspired bard subclass zine College of the Third Wave, the Appendix N Jam adventure Agents of the Gilded Palm, and the Book of Coloring series of fantasy coloring books.
BEASTS Kickstarter is now LIVE!!
4 months ago
– Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 08:10:53 AM
Hello all you beautiful Koboa backers!
I'm so excited to inform you that the crowdfunding for my next big project, BEASTS, is live now!
BEASTS is a Powered-By-The-Apocalypse Tabletop RPG about teenagers with the power to transform into animals fighting a secret war against secret invaders. The game is heavily inspired by stories like Animorphs, and a bit also by other stories of resistance such as Colony. Players play conflicted teens, struggling between keeping true to their convictions and doing what they know they must do to win the war. As they break their convictions they metaphorically "Feed the Beast", forcing players to rip pieces out of their character sheet to become stronger. The parts you rip out are the parts of moves that represent your character being a teen rather than a soldier.
The Enemy is a secretive organization, covertly taking control of people’s minds, bodies, and will. Should the Enemy’s invasion ever become known to society at large, they would shift their strategy to full-out war against humanity, something you know that would result in the loss of a staggering amount of lives. You and your friends have the power to transform into animals. Will this power be enough to turn the tides of the invasion? Probably not, but you are our only hope.
How far will you go to win this war? And what will be left of you when it is over?
Back the project here!
