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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GameDoc" data-source="post: 6384907" data-attributes="member: 53915">I appreciate the throwback to having a rivalry with gnomes based on the one between Garl Glittergold and Kurtulmak.  Pre 3e, this always seemed to be the kobold's shtick to me - they were the gnome's racial enemies the way goblins were to dwarves and orcs were to humans and elves. And like gnomes, they were burrowers, miners, and crafters - and far better at it than the other monstrous humanoids.  That's in keeping with their actual mythical origins.I kind of wish we got more of that and less of the dragon worshipper thing.  Or at least not have attempted to smush both concepts together.Maybe it would have been better to explain the rivalry with gnomes as happening first and then stating that after Kurtulmak's imprisonment, many fled to the worship of Tiamat.  I don't really like the idea of Kurtulmak being her subordinate.  Having him be his own deity sets up some interesting plot lines:Hmmm, do I make a temporary alliance with this evil cult of Kurtulmak because we both want that dragon dead.  I need it to stop terrorizing the region and they want its minions to come back to their ancestral religion.  But what happens when they now have a mob of crazy kobolds with no dragon to keep them in line? And how to I handle the fact that our party's scout is a gnome?  Decisions, decisions.</blockquote>