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

[Parmandur]

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

Artist misread the art order.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Kobold, gnome, brownie - all basically the same thing.

D&D: I can get maybe... 27 monsters out of this.

 

[JEB]

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?

Considering kender are halfling-adjacent, and they're talking about tying kender to the Feywild, I wouldn't rule out halflings being linked as well.

That said, dragonborn also appear to be strictly tied to the Material Plane. Orcs/half-orcs as well.

 

[Thommy H-H]

They don't have any connection to the Feywild mentioned in Monsters of the Multiverse. I expect this is a misquote or a mistake made during the interview. Goblinoids (and Changelings) are the ones whose origins were changed to explicitly fey.

 

[Thommy H-H]

[Double post: sorry!]

 

[Sacrosanct]

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

There's a thread around here somewhere with the actual image, but Gygax gave someone a description that was supposed to be based more on the original folklore, but it was drawn with dog-like features, and there you go.

 

[Yaarel]

Kobold, gnome, brownie - all basically the same thing.

D&D: I can get maybe... 27 monsters out of this.

kobol-d = gob-lin

 

[Micah Sweet]

I think kobolds should make heavy use of cobalt in their culture, since the element is named after them.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

What is it, just humans, dwarves and halflings now?

Wouldn't dragonborn also be native?

 

[Weiley31]

Okay, now I unironically want it to turn out that the shadar-kai were the original humans.

Their half breed Fey/Humanoid mutts...................at least in 4E. (in which they were also JUST Edgy Goth Fey in 3E.)