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

[Tonguez]

This is for ever my image of kobolds, pug nosed, horned and dun coloured, let them be fey as long as there is not a dragon in sight

 

[toucanbuzz]

I don't like it, but it's not totally wrong if D&D kobolds were morphed to their real-world origins. A kobold is originally a Germanic folklore sprite of the faerie realm, commonly found in woods or mines.

Designers and writers gradually made them into dragonic beings through the AD&D years, complete with a rich history and divine enmity with gnomes. They've just become so canon to D&D as a 1st level character adversary that seeing a change to make them something other than what they've been in the game for the past 40+ years is jarring. But, it's not unsubstantiated, and as WOTC and Burger King seem oft to do: "have it your way." If you want fae kobold, go for it.

Hell, our next campaign is Dragonlance and kobolds have their own origin story there (created by the Graygem of Gargath, no kobold gods or faerie realm needed). We'll be having it "our way" in that setting.

 

[RoughCoronet0]

Well, this isn’t the lore I will be following. For me, D&D Kobolds will always be dragon-adjacent.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

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.

This only improves my taste for 5e lore (though I generally still like 4e lore the best)

 

[Kobold Stew]

I think this is a mistake either a slip by Crawford or an error introduced in editing.

In MotM, the lore on kobolds is pretty clear:

"...kobolds display their draconiuc ancestry in the glint of their scales and in their roars. Legends tell of the first kobolds emerging from the Underdark near the lairs of the earliest dragons."

No mention I can see in the book connecting kobolds with Feywild.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

It is all just getting to be embarrassing.

I don't think melodrama is productive here.

You don't like this idea. You also know precious little about its actual shape...and, regardless of what shape it takes, you've never been beholden to it. People kept making such a huge deal about 5e "empowering DMs." Use your "empowerment" and just....ignore the official text.

 

[Parmandur]

I think this is a mistake either a slip by Crawford or an error introduced in editing.

In MotM, the lore on kobolds is pretty clear:

"...kobolds display their draconiuc ancestry in the glint of their scales and in their roars. Legends tell of the first kobolds emerging from the Underdark near the lairs of the earliest dragons."

No mention I can see in the book connecting kobolds with Feywild.

Yeah, I mean, confusing Kobolds and Goblins is pretty natural, etymologically speaking.

 

[Faolyn]

Is anyone else having a problem with Dragon where the text only shows up if I highlight it?

 

[Parmandur]

Is anyone else having a problem with Dragon where the text only shows up if I highlight it?

Nope. Have you tried turning it off and on again?

 

[Hussar]

Funny how kobolds bein “dragon adjacent “ is now treated as the way things were when that’s something that wasn’t a thing until 3e. But making them from the Feywild is a huge change.

Apropos of nothing, the Dragonborn pc in my current campaign is from the feywild.