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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3905753" data-attributes="member: 39593">That is interesting, different than how I had them relating to each other but very swipable.Way I did it:  Saw reference to kobolds being derived from dragons in 3e and getting along very well.  That aside from wyrmling clutches dragons are almost always encountered alone and yet there seems to be no shortage of them and ran with it.Reason why dragons haven't died out even though have low populations in any single area compared to other races is they're hermaphroditic thus every member of the population produces young.  They lay eggs at regular intervals whether they mate or not, if they haven't mated they reproduce parthenogenically and out of these eggs hatch kobolds.  Explains why the kobolds are so loyal and why dragons tend to protect them, that dragon they fawn over is their mama.  Like angels and demons, dragons have the fantasy equivalent of what might be called universally dominant genes.  When they reproduce with a non-dragon you get either a greater dragonkin(standard dragonkin minus the int and charisma penalties) or lesser dragonkin(half-dragon given hd and turned into a race rather than a template).  The dominance of dragon genes mean that when  either interbreeds with non-dragons(like humans/elves/orcs/etc.) you get lesser dragonkin.  If two dragonkin interbreed the result is a greater dragonkin.</blockquote>