Koboa - The South American Fantasy TTRPG Setting

Pre-order Koboa: The South American 5e, PF2 and Black Flag Setting on BackerKit Koboa is a Tabletop RPG setting for 5e, PF2, and Black Flag created by an all South American team and based on our stories and culture. Due to the volatility of shipping prices globally right now, sh...

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I have been working on this project for years.

I have gotten to read every single word of text and look at every single piece of art.

Y'all, it's so good.

Finished the last sensitivity reviews for Koboa! 😮🍾🎉

@koboa.bsky.social

Did you see this?!?!?!
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Me smiling wearing a black wizard's hat decorated with rainbow ribbon and otherwise in Quechua garb - blue pocho with red belt. A black-and-white wool sling and a wooden wand with rainbow colors in the belt. Gold sash across my front holding little bags in bright patterns holding pieces of plants, feathers, and wool. A dark wood staff covered with knotted cords in many colors. Face and chest of a white-faced capuchin monkey are poking out from the poncho at the level of my chest.

Me smiling with eyes closed and arms spread, wearing a black wizard's hat decorated with rainbow ribbon and otherwise in Quechua garb - blue pocho with red belt. A black-and-white wool sling and a wooden wand with rainbow colors in the belt. Gold sash across my front holding little bags in bright patterns holding pieces of plants, feathers, and wool. A dark wood staff covered with knotted cords in many colors. Face and chest of a white-faced capuchin monkey are poking out from the poncho at the level of my chest.

Happy Halloween! Here's me as a Novpoan wizard from the @koboa.bsky.social TTRPG campaign setting, with monkey familiar. 🧙🏽🐒 1/

If you haven't, you truly need to check out this project.

Hello all you new followers! Appreciate your follows! Please consider following the koboa account as well for all your koboa info and news!

Four koboa characters and a capybara stand next to overgrown ruins in a rainforest. One is Black and flying overhead on her butterfly wings. One has fiery hair and body markings. One is wearing armor and has horns. The final one is made up of insects and weird a bow and arrow.

Welcome Bluesky newcomers! This is the official Koboa account, stay tuned for when we ramp up communications as our OFFICIAL RELEASE (omg) comes sooner and sooner!

We can definitely connect you with some of our Indigenous writers!

For a while the name for third party black flag was "Core Fantasy Roleplay"

If we may toot our own horn, our approach is very good

Pre-order Koboa: The South American 5e, PF2 and CFR Setting on BackerKit Koboa is a Tabletop RPG setting for 5e, PF2, and CFR created by an all South American team and based on our stories and culture. Due to the volatility of shipping prices globally right now, shipping ...

For another approach to de-essentializing Race in #DnD, check out what we've done with Forms in @koboa.bsky.social. Also many customization options!

Now available for preorder *ahem ahem*, and incidentally also be available for #TalesOfTheValiant

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"Are Jews Indigenous?" A Quechua Jew Weighs In Guest Post from Daniel Delgado

My latest essay, which @theradr.bsky.social has been generous enough to host on her newsletter, is both personal and—I believe—important. I hope you’ll read it, share it, and use it as a resource.

lifeisasacredtext.com/indigenous

Character design art of a noble type bard character. He is beefy, has brown skin, patches of vitiligo on his face, black wavy hair he wears on a fancy ponytail. He stands dramatically surrounded by flower petals, wearing a ridiculously ornamented doublet with puffy trunk hose. He's lovely.

More character design for @koboa.bsky.social ☀️✨ This time it was a fancy lad.

More character design for @koboa.bsky.social ☀️ This time an Oath of the Liberator paladin! (Yes, I reposted and deleted this like 3 times cause I can never get the file size right 🥲)

Community Spotlight: Koboa, a South America-Inspired Setting This October, we're spotlighting Koboa, a third-party setting rooted in the mythology, history, and culture of South America.

Did sensitivity consulting and writing for the forthcoming South American TTRPG setting @koboa.bsky.social, including designing two 5e subclasses inspired by Quechua culture & writing the gazetteer for the region based on our lands.

Read more about Koboa here! 2/

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@lamalamuerte.bsky.social makes such incredible designs!!!

.@koboa.bsky.social, the South American TTRPG setting that I have the pleasure of being a designer on, is now on Bluesky!

Give them a follow, and check out this great thread revealing some of the inspirations for Koboa's unique Forms (which replace Races).

Different costume designs for people from the five territories of Koboa: Atsatray, Gran Marcelia, Mallgot, Novpo, and Nueva Vardia

Meet the people of Koboa!
🎨 LaMalaMuerte

Humanoid with pointy ears, a bull tail and bull horns

We wanted the colonizers to be more standardized fantasy creatures even if they aren't that connected to stories from Spain. We added bull elements because otherwise the white coded forms were less animal coded which lead to messaging we didn't want. Plus, bulls are hella Spain

Humanoid with compound eyes and a proboscis and exoskeleton

Etel were inspired by stories of the Abuhuku
🎨 Guilherme Chaves

Humanoid with red skin and otherworldly horns

Colonizers tried to convert people by telling them their spiritual beings were actually demons from the colonizers religion. This led to syncretism in demons, and Native spirits having devilish names.
Our tieflings (Raug) are likewise seen as demons by some and not by others

Humanoid with bull horns, serpent tail, fairy wings

The form of the Chanov is inspired by the many mixed cultures and people in South America. One of the main driving motivations for when we designed the forms system was to allow for mixed form characters, especially mixing more than 2 separate forms

🎨 Andê Borges

Serpent person

Bakol came about from the fact that multiple South American cultures have stories of big, powerful Serpents. We decided early on Giant Serpents would fill the space in Koboa normally filled by dragons in other fantasy settings. This led to a form inspired by them
🎨 @cosmicamazn

A humanoid woman with fairy wings

The Sial are inspired by the Aziza, West African stories about fairies.
🎨: Cosmicamazn

Giant humanoid

The form of the Jut is inspired by some people's creation stories that stated that before humans giants ruled the world.

🎨 Cosmicamazon

Humanoid with bark skin, one puma leg, and flower/leaf hair

The Watak is inspired by stories of duendes and chullachaki. Stories say they could turn into trees and had uneven legs.
🎨: Alvaro "Tenaz" Córdova

Humanoid shaped swarm of insects

Guveng are inspired by stories of the Eintykara, the bee man in some northern South America stories.
🎨 Guilherme Chaves

A short humanoid with large eyes and feet and pointy ears

The form of the Kadwot is mainly inspired by stories of the Laftrache, underground gnome-like creatures.
🎨 Aner Urra

Humanoid with fiery hair, reverse facing feet, and pointy ears

The Ghintak is primarily inspired by Amazon stories of the Curupira.
🎨 Guilherme Chaves