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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SpiralBound" data-source="post: 2984785" data-attributes="member: 8396">Ah... now it makes sense.  I would be quite interested to know when your finished version is available.  An email dropped to a certain gmail account with the same name as my username would be greatly appreciated! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Until then, I think that I will "appropriate" this current incarnation of the Ling, apply my suggested changes, and drop them into a dense and remote forested area in my next appropriate campaign.  I'm just imagining a bunch of low level adventurers getting trounced by a Ling tribe!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />As for stepping on the Kobold toes, perhaps Ling traps would be more passively defensive and less sadistic than Kobold traps.  Where a Kobold trap is designed to maim you as much as possible, a Ling trap could be designed to slow you down, misdirect and confuse you, hurt or annoy you, and generally make you either get lost or want to leave rather than continue on in the direction of the Ling village.  Perhaps also, Ling traps (maybe it's more accurate to call them "defenses") are designed to look natural instead of lingmade.  I don't know, I'm just ideasurfing right now.  I agree with not stealing the Kobold's thunder (all my Kobolds are "Tucker's Kobolds"!) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Still, it seems to make sense that a small race that tries to avoid the other races would try to use their surroundings to aid them as much as possible to offset their lacking in size and strength.  Perhaps they would also use a lot of concealment tactics. (DC 30 to spot a Ling footpath, a Ling village, or track a Ling who doesn't want to be followed)</blockquote>

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