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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1996222" data-attributes="member: 6533">Given the usefullness of kobolds as a base race what with the high birth rate and cleverness with traps, might they not be a better urban or industrial race?Lizardmen I like, I think they'd do very well in the hierarchy as militants and pastoralists.  Though I don't know much about their penchant for agriculture being natural druids.  Hard to say what a druid society would do in terms of making farming models.  I picture a highly diversified system, with lots of cooperation and a high level of 'technical' expertise from the druid caste.  I like the rice paddies that are also fish farms.Yuan-Ti might make excellent beauracrats and a good race for overseeing or dealing with the human element of the empire.  Particularly given their parasitic relationship to humans.  I'm picturing something like the first scene of Alexander Nevsky where human prinicipalities are surrounded by lizard lands and the Yuan-ti mandarins who are both their primary opponents and primary employers.  Humans would essentially be a client society.The whole empire might function through a series of deliberatives where the lizardmen, Yuan-Ti, and Kobolds make up the estates.  Gnomes or other guest peoples have either advisory roles or are granted specific rights and obligations, and Dragons function as a less desperate, given that their superiority is so much more clearly manifest, patrician class.  With younger dragons and the greatest of the Yuan-ti functioning as something analogous to the equites.</blockquote>

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