D&D 5E Kobolds are also from the Feywild now?

[steeldragons]

Reading through the Dragon+ article on Monsters of the Multiverse:

Over my dead pile of dog-faced rat-tailed kobold bodies.

Not in any game or world I ever run.

 

[Sacrosanct]

They were originally supposed to be fairy, like boggarts, but the original artwork was flawed. The rest is history.

 

[BRayne]

The real world mythological kobolds are pretty much 100% fae so it's within the same realm as moving goblins over. Just a bit weird to continue with the dragon aesthetic while doing so.

 

[Quickleaf]

Blink dog is fey.

Kobold smell like wet dog.

Therefor... kobold is fey!

Kobold Soundboard

 

[Parmandur]

The real world mythological kobolds are pretty much 100% fae so it's within the same realm as moving goblins over. Just a bit weird to continue with the dragon aesthetic while doing so.

 

[DEFCON 1]

Kobolds having fey origins are like elves having fey origins. At some point in the past the originators probably came from there, but they've existed here for so long does it really even matter? I mean personally, I don't care where monsters were originally from in any of the planes of the multiverse... all that matters is that I'm dealing with them here and now in whatever world I'm playing in.

 

[Yaarel]

D&D 5e: Now Everything is now from the Feywild.

Everything that should be fairy should be fey.

Kobold is a bit weird tho because the D&D version is clearly not a house sprite, like the actual kobold.

I like to think of it as a nickname because this kind of dragon is small, lives in a cave, and is industrious, like some kobolds (house sprites) are.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I feel like we're starting to run out of people who are native to the Prime. What is it, just humans, dwarves and halflings now?

My distaste for 5e's version of lore continues unabated.

 

[Yaarel]

They were originally supposed to be fairy, like boggarts, but the original artwork was flawed. The rest is history.

Was the original kobold image an unintentional error, or Gygax doing Gygax?

 

[Yaarel]

I feel like we're starting to run out of people who are native to the Prime. What is it, just humans, dwarves and halflings now.

Heh! Maybe halflings if = hobbit = hob = house sprite