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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nail" data-source="post: 1376954" data-attributes="member: 224">Good brain food.I like a natural armor bonus, which reflects their lizard skin.  Perhaps +1 or +2 is all that's needed there.I dislike the bonus feat; personal tastes, nothing more.  I see kobolds as being crafty, but no more perceptive than the average human.  So perhaps strike the Listen bonus, and give it (+2) only to Craft, Profession, and Search.  Viddessian and I have talked about both this and the Nat. Armor before I posted here.I'm ambivalent about the stat adjustments.  The DMG has a fairly long section on how to balance them, with Str topping the list (as you know).  Before the DMG came out (after I had gotten my hands only only the 3.0e PH), I had converted my home-brew campaign world on a straight, one-for-one basis for ability score adjustments.  That is, a +2 somewhere gives you a -2 somewhere else, no special balancing rules.But the core rules are strongly against me here, for PC races at least.  The half-orc is the example, of course._Darkvision vs. Light sensitivity_I agree that the extra 30' is an advantage....but in most adventuring circumstances, it's not huge.  Too many twists and turns below ground, in buildings, in the hills and woods.....The Light sensitivity balances this out, I *think*.  It's a -1 on Atk and "vision" skill checks.  Dazzled, IIRC.Moreover (and coloring my vision on the subject), I think Darkvision of any kind should *require* light senstivity.  The whole subject just sticks in my craw.  It seems that everyone (other than PCs) get the ability, for little to no reason...perhaps we should just give everyone darkvision, and call it a day.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />So tell ya what: reduce kobolds darkvision to 60', and give anyone with darkvision the light sensitivity special quality.</blockquote>

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