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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 8327527" data-attributes="member: 1125">Yeah I remember much discussion about that redesign when 3e MM came out, I beleive it was a deliberate design decision to make Kobolds different from goblins and lean hard into a reptilian nature.EDIT: According to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobold_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)" target="_blank">Kobold (D&amp;D) entry in Wikipedia</a> in 1993 the Urds (batwinged Kobolds) were introduced which is what inspired the more draconic depiction. In 2003 Bioware included a kobold in Neverwinter Nights Hordes of the Underdark expansion pack named Deekin Scalesinger, a follower of the white dragon Tymofarrar who becomes a Dragon Disciple.As to Gnolls Lord Dunsany wrote a short story called &quot;How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles&quot; so I always thought Gnoll came from that, unfortunately Dunsany does give much description of his Gnoles except But the gnoles had watched him though knavish holes that they bore in trunks of the trees, and the unearthly silence gave way, as it were with a grace, to the rapid screams of Tonker as they picked him up from behind — screams that came faster and faster until they were incoherent.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 8327527, member: 1125"] Yeah I remember much discussion about that redesign when 3e MM came out, I beleive it was a deliberate design decision to make Kobolds different from goblins and lean hard into a reptilian nature. EDIT: According to the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobold_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)']Kobold (D&D) entry in Wikipedia[/URL] in 1993 the Urds (batwinged Kobolds) were introduced which is what inspired the more draconic depiction. In 2003 Bioware included a kobold in Neverwinter Nights Hordes of the Underdark expansion pack named Deekin Scalesinger, a follower of the white dragon Tymofarrar who becomes a Dragon Disciple. As to Gnolls Lord Dunsany wrote a short story called "[I]How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art upon the Gnoles[/I]" so I always thought Gnoll came from that, unfortunately Dunsany does give much description of his Gnoles except [I]But the gnoles had watched him though knavish holes that they bore in trunks of the trees, and the unearthly silence gave way, as it were with a grace, to the rapid screams of Tonker as they picked him up from behind — screams that came faster and faster until they were incoherent.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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