[0one Games] The Return of the Dog-Faced Kobolds!

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Want more beginners adventures? Here they are! Curse of the Sickled Hand is a basic Pathfinder adventure written by Mario Barbati. It features simplified statblocks for monsters and is fully playable with the simplified ruleset. It includes battlemaps for running the fights, handouts, some pawns and plenty of GM's tips. It will also include a "Pro" appendix to allow veteran GMs to fully enjoy the adventure, using Pathfinder Complete Ruleset.

Curse of the Sickled Hand features:
• All-star team: Mario Barbati, Tim Hitchcock, Roberto Pitturru
• Beginner adventure for character levels 3-4
• Six battlemaps for miniature gaming
• Three handouts
• Eleven pawns including coblynau, skeletons and the featured villain, Vraklin the coblynau necromancer
• New monster: the coblynau, (dog faced kobolds!)

 

[Shoe]

That's not really how I ever invisioned old kobolds either. I miss old D&D kobolds. they were described like rat/dog/lizard-men:

from the 2nd ED MM:

Kobolds are a cowardly, sadistic race of short humanoids that vigorously contest the human and demi-human races for living space and food. They especially dislike gnomes and attack them on sight.
Barely clearing 3 feet in height, kobolds have scaly hides that range from dark, rusty brown to a rusty black. They smell of damp dogs and stagnant water. Their eyes glow like a bright red spark and they have two small horns ranging from tan to white. Because of the kobolds' fondness for wearing raggedy garb of red and orange, their non-prehensile rat-like tails, and their language (which sounds like small dogs yapping), these fell creatures are often not taken seriously. This is often a fatal mistake, for what they lack in size and strength they make up in ferocity and
tenacity.

Making Kobolds too much like dragons/lizards/dogs makes them less unique to me than the scaly hide which clearly has fur as well little yapping monsters they were back in the day. Best kobold art was 2nd Edition IMHO because it really set them apart from rat-men, lizard men, troglodytes, dog-men and all the other races that they were so often compared to.