I try not to use two different races for the same niche. if goblins are my cackling pyromaniac cannibal monstrosities, I use kobolds for the put upon forced to serve darkness people.Don't confuse "non-hostile" for "non-evil". You can still be a LE kobold and decide it's better to work with potential murderhobos ín an attempt to bargain your life and the life of your dragon charge than to needlessly throw it away on a suicide attack.