Kobold nicknames for Lizardfolk?

Gruns

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Bored at work on a Sunday afternoon...

My PCs have come across a kobold lair on a mostly deserted island. Through fancy roleplaying, nice dice rolling, and a key Charm Person, they have semi-befriended the kobolds. There is a rival tribe of lizardfolk a few clicks away. Territorial wars and general hatred for each other is the norm. There are also dinosaurs on this island, to keep the theme of reptilian creatures going.

Anyway, to the point, (if any), I need some good nicknames for the lizardfolk, from the kobolds point of view. "Green Meanies", for example, but not as lame...

For extra credit, there's a fire giant that lives in a nearby volcano that likes to throw things such as lava rocks at the kobolds when they peek their head out of their cave-hole. His bad guy nickname?

Have fun...
Gruns
 

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So assuming the kobolds are reptilian the nicknames probably don't refer to the lizardness of the Lizardfolk but to their perceived IQ - ergo Swamp-grunts, Oafs, Fang-heads

I'd call the giant Flame-tooth* (and allow him to breath fire)

*Nifo-afi (flame-tooth) was a Samoan giant who kept burning logs inserted into his gums
 


Big Barbarian Brutes. (Compared to kobolds, lizardfolks are bigger, stronger, and less civilized.)

Mudlubbers. (Like landlubber, but for mud. Kobolds prefer a firmer ground.)

Oggerlizards. (While kobolds are reptilians too, they trace their ancestry to dragons, not to lizards. The ogre part because they're comparable to ogres for the tiny-weenie Kobolds.)
 

More along this line...

Gez said:
While kobolds are reptilians too, they trace their ancestry to dragons, not to lizards.

Yeah. This is more what I was looking for. Something to show the genealogical inferiority of the lizardmen. Anything along the lines of "faithless" or "wannabes"...
Unfortunately "Mudbloods" is the best I can come up with so far...

Later!
Gruns
 

*Nifo-afi (flame-tooth) was a Samoan giant who kept burning logs inserted into his gums

Giganto-orthodonty was, sadly, a very backwards science in those days.

Kobold nicknames for liazardfolk... Unwyrms, the Crude, the Beastly Ones, the Blind (for their inability to use socery), or perhaps a word which translates directly as 'Ogres' (which is what they are to kobolds, really... bigger, dumber, uglier).
 


Thunderfeet - Lizardfolk aren't as stealthy as kobolds on land.
Throwbacks - Lizardfolk are just dumber, bigger kobolds, kind of like the neanderthal
 

it occurs to me that Gruns would be a good nickname for Lizardfolk (althouh it sounds more like a Halfling word)
 


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