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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4105904" data-attributes="member: 58197">Okay, first, I'm going to apologize for the &quot;feel for your players&quot; comment.&nbsp; Upon review, I realized that was excessively snarky and hostile, and changed it in the original post to something less inflammatory.That said--the kobold dragonshield isn't &quot;kobold with shield.&quot;&nbsp; The key elements are the &quot;dragonshield tactics&quot; ability and the ability to mark opponents.&nbsp; Both of these are designed to produce a specific flavor in play.&nbsp; All kobolds are &quot;shifty,&quot; but the dragonshield is incredibly hard to pin down, thanks to his ability to react to &quot;I move up next to the kobold&quot; with &quot;I step away from the big nasty adventurer.&quot;&nbsp; Plus he hits harder than other kobolds and has a debuff going on.&nbsp; Frankly, as a PC, I would quickly learn to hate this guy.If you want to demonstrate how easy it is to come up with these concepts, give us a variation on the kobold.&nbsp; Give it a special ability that distinguishes it from the variants we've got so far, fits the theme of kobolds as evasive little nuisances, is reasonable for its level, and makes it qualitatively different in play--that is, the PCs will remember it as more than &quot;the kobold that took three hits to kill instead of two.&quot;&nbsp; Then tell us how long it took to come up with this.Again--not a huge effort, I doubt it'd take me more than a few minutes, but not trivial.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 4105904, member: 58197"] Okay, first, I'm going to apologize for the "feel for your players" comment. Upon review, I realized that was excessively snarky and hostile, and changed it in the original post to something less inflammatory. That said--the kobold dragonshield isn't "kobold with shield." The key elements are the "dragonshield tactics" ability and the ability to mark opponents. Both of these are designed to produce a specific flavor in play. All kobolds are "shifty," but the dragonshield is incredibly hard to pin down, thanks to his ability to react to "I move up next to the kobold" with "I step away from the big nasty adventurer." Plus he hits harder than other kobolds and has a debuff going on. Frankly, as a PC, I would quickly learn to [i]hate[/i] this guy. If you want to demonstrate how easy it is to come up with these concepts, give us a variation on the kobold. Give it a special ability that distinguishes it from the variants we've got so far, fits the theme of kobolds as evasive little nuisances, is reasonable for its level, and makes it qualitatively different in play--that is, the PCs will remember it as more than "the kobold that took three hits to kill instead of two." Then tell us how long it took to come up with this. Again--not a huge effort, I doubt it'd take me more than a few minutes, but not trivial. [/QUOTE]

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