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<blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 3944041" data-attributes="member: 41584">Kobolds in one game I ran weren't just vaguely related to dragons, they hatched in litters &nbsp;from unfertilized dragon eggs, and tended to be slavishly devoted to their mother. &nbsp;The 'wild'&nbsp; kobolds were descended from clans of kobolds who had outlived their draconic&nbsp;parent (or been thrown out or abandoned by a dragoness who was changing lairs or &nbsp;whatever), and were savage and vicious, vainly attempting to 'prove their worth' to their &nbsp;dragon-gods by killing livestock and wild animals with traps and staking them out as tribute &nbsp;for 'the dragons.'&nbsp; (Which generally ended up being a windfall for the local vulture &nbsp;population, anyway.)They also held whatever forces their dragon used as sacred, so a clan of kobolds descended &nbsp;from a Red Dragoness would have dark reddish tint to their scales, limited fire resistance,&nbsp;and prefer to kill their prey by putting them in bonfires.&nbsp; Black and Green Dragon-descended&nbsp;kobolds would gather natural acids (or brew them up with crude alchemy) and sacrifice&nbsp;their kills by dousing them in acid, etc.So, two kinds of kobolds, either desperate little packs of savage fanatics, running around&nbsp;burning stuff, kidnapping people and putting them in bonfires and mutilating cattle to leave&nbsp;as tribute to the 'gods' who have forsaken them, or organized and servile cultists to a very&nbsp;real and active dragoness.&nbsp; Woe unto the adventurers who slaughter a band of 'nuisances'&nbsp;to discover that they were not 'wild...'</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Set, post: 3944041, member: 41584"] Kobolds in one game I ran weren't just vaguely related to dragons, they hatched in litters from unfertilized dragon eggs, and tended to be slavishly devoted to their mother. The 'wild' kobolds were descended from clans of kobolds who had outlived their draconic parent (or been thrown out or abandoned by a dragoness who was changing lairs or whatever), and were savage and vicious, vainly attempting to 'prove their worth' to their dragon-gods by killing livestock and wild animals with traps and staking them out as tribute for 'the dragons.' (Which generally ended up being a windfall for the local vulture population, anyway.) They also held whatever forces their dragon used as sacred, so a clan of kobolds descended from a Red Dragoness would have dark reddish tint to their scales, limited fire resistance, and prefer to kill their prey by putting them in bonfires. Black and Green Dragon-descended kobolds would gather natural acids (or brew them up with crude alchemy) and sacrifice their kills by dousing them in acid, etc. So, two kinds of kobolds, either desperate little packs of savage fanatics, running around burning stuff, kidnapping people and putting them in bonfires and mutilating cattle to leave as tribute to the 'gods' who have forsaken them, or organized and servile cultists to a very real and active dragoness. Woe unto the adventurers who slaughter a band of 'nuisances' to discover that they were not 'wild...' [/QUOTE]

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