Yep, that was noted earlier up thread. That required actual reading though. Most people seem to follow what their eyes tell them.
Oh, for sure. For years (decades actually) I always envisioned kobolds as dog-like with little or no reptilian features (perhaps patches of scales) because that's how they were initially portrayed to me and it just stuck (I even thought the illustration was mail armor, not their skin). But even the 1e description describes them as reptilian creatures that lay eggs--the dog-like features are secondary.Yep, that was noted earlier up thread. That required actual reading though. Most people seem to follow what their eyes tell them.
They're always little dog people to me!
And the reason for this is that heroes used primary colors and villains used secondary colors.
I don't remember if there were kobolds in the D&D cartoon, since I was exposed to that first. The first ones I know I saw were the ones from the 2e Monstrous Compendium, but I latched onto di'Terlizzi's art from the hardbound 2e Monstrous Manual the second I saw it. I drew little cartoons of them, and for some reason decided they bred osquips like showdogs. I wish I still had that old art.
WoW orcs are rather color-sensitive. Their "proper" color is brown, but exposure to fel energies (primarily through drinking the blood of a very powerful demon, but eventually most of their homeworld got saturated with those energies so only a few isolated communities remained brown) turned them green. And getting even more charged with fel energy would turn them red.
To be fair, it's not just the orcs in WoW. Baseline draenei are blue, fel charged ones mostly turn some shade of red or purple, and light charged ones turn light grey or ivory white. And I'm not even going to try and count the half dozen different flavors of elf. Physical transformations and color changes in response to magical exposure is as much a WoW staple as important NPCs being captured, tortured until they go mad with evil, and then battled as a raid boss.
