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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1873950" data-attributes="member: 6929">In Dungeon Damage Europe:Kobolds are members of a saurian primate family, occupying the role of monkeys. (For reference, the troglodyte, troll, and lizardperson are also members of this family, occupying roles similar to the chimpanzee, gorilla, and human.) They are unintelligent (only lizardfolk are intelligent), but traders can often be seen with pet kobolds, just like pet monkeys. Because this world is slightly warmer than ours (a biomass equation necessary to support larger predators), and because they're warm-blooded, they can survive even in Europe. And they have to; the saurian primates originated in Africa before the mammalian primates, but were outcompeted (something to do with eggs, I guess), and now survive only in remote locations and caves.There are several species of kobold. The most-known types are cave-dwellers and packs of plain-dwellers similar to baboons, but there are a few rare tree-climbers with prehensile tails left in the African and south-east Asian jungles.Occasionally, a dragon will see a kobold and get a wistful look in their eye, wondering what might have been...</blockquote>