AD&D Kobold picture

[frankthedm]

In my D&D games, Kobolds are tough, small-ish wolf/dog creatures. "Kobolds are to Gnolls as Goblins are to Hobgoblins" you could say.
My theory is backed up by that all too awesome D&D based anime classic Record of the Lodoss War...

http://accel21.mettre-put-idata.over-blog.com/0/50/15/29/kobold.jpg

I did the same thing for my D&D campaign, though my kobolds kept thier horns.

 

[Plane Sailing]

check out the nose/ muzzle on the pic. very dog like.

perhaps... but completely overshadowed surely by the undoglike horns, undoglike ears, undoglike scaly skin

They were little demon things, not dog things!

 

[Celebrim]

"I like a mix of the 1e and 2e versions, and in Aquerra people sometimes call them Rat Dogs, and their god is also the god of rats."

That's pretty much exactly the way I took them, only on Sartha the kobold patron deity (Kurtulmak) is the son of the 13 headed rat king over-deity Sormkortek. Kobolds on Sartha are 'rat-people', not lizards.