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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MostlyDm" data-source="post: 6988982" data-attributes="member: 6788973">Oh, sure, they'll definitely slit your throat in your sleep if doing so would benefit them.I mean, one of the kobold groups had kidnapped an alchemist and were making good headway as raiders, with fairly sophisticated tools and tactics.But, insidious or not, purely based on appearance they are intrinsically kind of amusing. And, good tactics or no, they're nonthreatening purely by dint of having worse statblocks than most monstrous humanoids.  They die quick.I'd say what inevitably leads to them being good allies is not comic relief, though. Upon reflection, I think another big factor is that I never DM inherently evil NPCs unless they are demons or other extraplanar aligned creatures.  Goblins and kobolds have motives, hopes, dreams, etc. The Dragonborn Paladin can provide them with the tools and resources they were previously acquiring through plunder.  He even negotiated a mutually beneficial arrangement between them and the local city guards.  It leads to less dead kobolds, and better fed kobold matrons.  I couldn't see any reason they wouldn't leap at the opportunity, other than "no, because they are inherently evil."</blockquote>