Alter self

[The Red King]

You may be able to slip out of bonds if you changed down a size category. Or you could, if the DM allowed, get a chance to break the bonds if you went a size category larger.

Just change into a snake. No arms, nothing to tie you down with, or shackle you to!

 

[Sekhmet]

Just change into a snake. No arms, nothing to tie you down with, or shackle you to!

You assume the form of a creature of the same type as your normal form.

I'm assuming most casters aren't Animals.

 

[The Red King]

You may be able to slip out of bonds if you changed down a size category. Or you could, if the DM allowed, get a chance to break the bonds if you went a size category larger.

I'm assuming most casters aren't Animals.

Maybe not in YOUR campaign.

 

[James the Newbie]

Maybe not in YOUR campaign.

 

[GhostBear]

Half Dragons are listed as Dragon Types. So, for that matter, are Kobolds!

I got really excited for a moment - but when I checked the SRD I saw them listed as "Small Humanoid (Reptilian)". True dragons are listed as Dragon.

Well darn. My dream of a small tribe of alter-selfing-into-dragon kobolds had a very short life. Unless, of course, I'm misunderstanding something... And I hope that I am. Because this could be really fun!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I could bearly contain my laughter the first time I saw that posted...

 

[Greenfield]

I got really excited for a moment - but when I checked the SRD I saw them listed as "Small Humanoid (Reptilian)". True dragons are listed as Dragon.

Well darn. My dream of a small tribe of alter-selfing-into-dragon kobolds had a very short life. Unless, of course, I'm misunderstanding something... And I hope that I am. Because this could be really fun!

My bad. I knew they spoke Draconic as their primary language, and mis-remembered their type.

I wonder what could be done with a Pseudodragon familiar...

 

[Sekhmet]

[MENTION=6669384]Greenfield[/MENTION], [MENTION=6667527]GhostBear[/MENTION] ,Races of the Dragon makes Kobold Small Humanoid (Reptilian, Dragonblood), which means that for all effects related to race, a kobold is considered a dragon.

Race does not, however, equal type, so it would be a hard sell to get Alter Self to work that way.

 

[Rath the Brown]

I got really excited for a moment - but when I checked the SRD I saw them listed as "Small Humanoid (Reptilian)". True dragons are listed as Dragon.

Well darn. My dream of a small tribe of alter-selfing-into-dragon kobolds had a very short life. Unless, of course, I'm misunderstanding something... And I hope that I am. Because this could be really fun!

You're not completely out of luck; Races of the Dragon also introduced the Dragonwrought feat, which, among other things, changes a kobold's type to dragon.