D&D General Dragonborn as Kobolds: Yea or Nay?

[Rune]

If you are trying to shoehorn something into older editions, start with the kobolds who were more dog-folk until, what 4e days when the designers changed them. I do like the change into more dragon-folk, but I can keep the two separate like humans and halflings.

Pretty sure that change happened with 3e.

But anyway, along the lines of the OP, the older version of kobolds could evolve into gnolls, maybe?

 

[touc]

In a homebrew world, Pathfinder's Golarian, or maybe Dragonlance, sure. In Dragonlance, kobolds were created to be cannon fodder for the Dark Queen's armies. Perhaps someone tinkered with the model while creating draconians.

Canon predating 3E, no. Kobolds were cunning dogmen that had 0% to do with dragons. But, that all said, folks often forget the best part of D&D from Gygax in one of the old school DMGs: “It is the spirit of the game, not the letter of the rules which is important." If you and your players like it, then bam, make it a part of your game.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Apparently all kobolds need to do to "evolve" into humanoid sized whatzits is for three of them to stand on the other's shoulders and wear a trenchcoat. That's canon in 5e!