Player wanting to be a kobold

[Wilphe]

Dont' Kobolds have an inherent +1 BAB?

Which is arguably better than 2pts of STR...

 

[Sejs]

Dont' Kobolds have an inherent +1 BAB?

No, that's from the kobold example in the MM also being a 1st level Warrior.

 

[Thresher]

Kobold paladin with shortspear on dire weasel charges into combat...gotta love it!

Just think too, she can do it in a dungeon environment too. I'd like to see most big-people get their horse down the average dungeon

 

[Norfleet]

Kobold as a race works perfectly well. However, the best kobold paladin is the Kobold Pal1/SorX. All the goodies of being a sorceror, and never miss a saving throw. With the anemic strength on a kobold, a career as a front-line combatant is likely to lead to a gruesome end, but with a favored class of sorceror, a small rear echelon target that never misses a saving throw isn't a bad deal.

 

[Wilphe]

No, that's from the kobold example in the MM also being a 1st level Warrior.

Upon rereading its because they are small.

 

[Dr_Rictus]

With the anemic strength on a kobold, a career as a front-line combatant is likely to lead to a gruesome end...

Not necessarily. He'll just make a better anvil than he will a hammer (what with that net +3 to AC and no penalties to his Con or lay on hands). In some parties, that's a perfectly good role for a front-line fighter.

In other thoughts, he might consider a wand of cure light wounds when he can afford it. Not necessarily because of how it will help him as a healer (though it will). Rather, because when he uses it against undead they won't care what his strength is.

(Pity with all that smiting going on that paladins don't get to use the inflict spells.)

 

[krunchyfrogg]

HR that kobolds are ELC -1, so he levels up faster, and/or start him at lvl2.

What's HR?

I like the idea of a Kobold Paladin. I don't think you need to change much to keep the player interested. The player is choosing a race with disadvantages. If you take them away, are you being fair to the other players?

 

[ArcOfCorinth]

Not necessarily. He'll just make a better anvil than he will a hammer (what with that net +3 to AC and no penalties to his Con or lay on hands). In some parties, that's a perfectly good role for a front-line fighter.

Especially when there's a dwarf fighter and gnome ranger wading into combat with her.

She tried the paladin tonight but requested a new character afterwards. She's going to try a kobold sorcerer without any special adjustments.

*shrug*

 

[Darklone]

I would have asked about a paladin1/spellsinger (Kalamar PG)... he could cast spells in full armour and still get lvl2 spells at a character level of four... Propose it to her?

Kobolds rawk!

 

[Sanackranib]

kobolds

in one of my past 3e games the party captured a kobold after he surprised one of the 2 barbarians and hit him with his dagger for 1 hp then beat him on init and did the same thing! the Barb grabbed him and naturaklly the kobold was scared . . . so he wet himself, or rather he would have if he had been wearing any pants! the Barb took it right in the chest and his reaction was to turn the kobold 90 degrees to his left which happened to be right where Barb #2 was moving up too see what was going on. LOL
how often does a kobold get to mark his territory on 2 medium size Barbarins in the same round?

anyway . . . he started traveling with them (nowhere else to go) they wound up buying him some equipment and eventually he gained enough xp to level. Naturally he chose Barbarian and proceded to roll an 11 on his hp. sveeral levels later (Barbarian and 3 rogue) he wound up becoming the partys main rogue and a passable fighter. whenever he raged he canceled the STR penalty.

So I guess what I am saying in a roundabout way is I see nothing wrong with a kobold paladin and a whole lot of fun and comic relief comming out of it. so GO FOR IT!