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<blockquote data-quote="QuietBrowser" data-source="post: 6939483" data-attributes="member: 6855057"><p>Honestly, I can kind of see the argument to drop those, or at least tone Pack Tactics down as I did in my original Kobold rendition, but there's the fact it's an actual MM trait for them, so... I don't know, what do folks think?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hmm... by that reasoning, why not just have it grow to 20ft Fly at 3rd level and 30ft Fly at 5th level? The Winged Tiefling gets 30 feet of fly speed straight away in exchange for her spell-like abilities, after all.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I actually kind of considered making it that the kobold breath weapon can only hit one target, so yeah, definitely agree with an inferior range to DB breath weapon. In fact, maybe, to emphasize their "mutt" status in the dragon hierarchy, kobold breath weapons don't clearly mesh up with any of the existant dragon ancestors? So we create home brewed breath weapons like "cone of thunder" or "line of frost"?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Personally, I'd love to go with the Tiefling's "variant trait X replaces canon trait Y" approach, but that first mandates we have a solidly defined kobold racial "core" in the first place. </p><p></p><p>So, we can either try and whip that up, or we can go with the idea that they get a "Kobold Mutability" trait, which lets them have 1 trait from the list of kobold variant traits, with the alternate ability scores perhaps being separate from this list because they do have a "canon" trait (the original +2 Dex/+1 Int ability scores) to replace.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="QuietBrowser, post: 6939483, member: 6855057"] Honestly, I can kind of see the argument to drop those, or at least tone Pack Tactics down as I did in my original Kobold rendition, but there's the fact it's an actual MM trait for them, so... I don't know, what do folks think? Hmm... by that reasoning, why not just have it grow to 20ft Fly at 3rd level and 30ft Fly at 5th level? The Winged Tiefling gets 30 feet of fly speed straight away in exchange for her spell-like abilities, after all. I actually kind of considered making it that the kobold breath weapon can only hit one target, so yeah, definitely agree with an inferior range to DB breath weapon. In fact, maybe, to emphasize their "mutt" status in the dragon hierarchy, kobold breath weapons don't clearly mesh up with any of the existant dragon ancestors? So we create home brewed breath weapons like "cone of thunder" or "line of frost"? Personally, I'd love to go with the Tiefling's "variant trait X replaces canon trait Y" approach, but that first mandates we have a solidly defined kobold racial "core" in the first place. So, we can either try and whip that up, or we can go with the idea that they get a "Kobold Mutability" trait, which lets them have 1 trait from the list of kobold variant traits, with the alternate ability scores perhaps being separate from this list because they do have a "canon" trait (the original +2 Dex/+1 Int ability scores) to replace. [/QUOTE]
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