Koboa: The South American 5e, PF2 and Black Flag Setting

KOBOA PDF IS OUT! And May 2026 Update
6 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

April 2026 Update
7 months ago – Thu, Apr 02, 2026 at 05:54:53 AM

Hi all you amazing backers!

We've got big news this week so let's get straight to it!

• We are finalizing the PDF, it is on the last proofread step. After that we tie some bows and it'll be done! At the discord channel we had some fun doing some previews, which I'll post below. 
• Likewise, we are now getting updated quotes from manufacturers, fulfillment companies, etc., finalizing our manufacturing plans to get that process started. Bear in mind that manufacturing, shipping, and fulfilling can take time, I've been told to estimate about 6 months for it all, especially in these turbulent times.
• The Spanish translation is getting started now that the PDF text is basically finalized.
• You'll hopefully be hearing from us soon once the PDF is ready! Expect another update sometime this month. 

Preview Pages

March 2026 Update!
8 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

Community Spotlight

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!!
9 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!

February 2026 Update
9 months ago – Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 07:49:34 AM

Hi all!

Layouting continues.

Francita's Chapter 2 (player options) first layout pass is up to 92 pages, which is maybe 8090% of its content. We have forms, classes, subclasses, and backgrounds laid out and now need to lay out spells, magic items, and feats. Its shaping up to be about half of the book which is why we're splitting it into clearer subsections. We expect to have the first pass of chapter 2 done in a couple of weeks.

Meanwhile, Manchae made some beautiful page borders to decorate separate chapters:

Sadly, both Manchae and Francita (our layout people) have had some health issues crop up this month so we've made a bit less progress than we'd been hoping for. However, we are all still optimistic we can have the PDF ready in a month or two. 

We've also added some customization tables to our forms, and some extra adventure hooks to our gazetteers, courtesy of Daniel Delgado's writing and Elizabeth Banerjee's editing.

Thank you for supporting South American projects, dreams, and excellence, particularly in times such as these.

Adrián Mejía