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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1995988" data-attributes="member: 7240">Nor did I. What I said was that at one moment, you base argument on the idea that the main predators of kobolds are good-aligned humanoids and the next moment you argue the opposite. Do you know how you determine the actual growth rate for a species in real life? You compare the birthrate against the mortality rate. You know some factors that affect the birth rate. You do not know the mortality rate. If you cannot even stick to your story from one post to the next about what causes kobold mortality, how can you possibly assert that you know their growth rate?Why are they the most common prey around? On what basis do you assert this? Now I don't even know what you are arguing. Is it now your position that kobolds will have a higher mortality rate at the hands of other humanoids? How does this impact your general argument?I'm insulting the position you believe the article to take. Take that however you want.Intelligent creatures (and even unintelligent creatures) do not simply base their dietary choices on efficient absorption of biomass. Otherwise, humans would eat a lot more reptiles and insects than we do. Once again, you are arbitrarily determining that something will happen because it could happen. In this case, it's kind of funny because this position actually continues to undermine your argument that the biggest factor in kobold mortality is the action of good-aligned humanoids.I did. But you are presenting this short-run kobold dominance as inevitable when it clearly isn't. That's my point. Lots of things could happen in the short term. Your scenario is one of them. Anyway, thanks for moving on to describing said scenario at the end of your post. Much appreciated. Maybe you could give us more details about the Gnome-Kobold technocracy that comes into being.</blockquote>

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