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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 7649924" data-attributes="member: 2067">For me, it's not so much the ecology as it is the play experience.Kobolds should feel different in play from mind flayers and goblins and hobgoblins and centaurs. If they're all just "horrible nightmare creatures," that's fine, but it can be kind of homogenizing. Monsters are monsters are monsters. I'm reminded of Inuyasha, and the countless demons rendered into dust by waves of power. They're pretty much only there to be destroyed, and their differences don't really matter.It does make the world seem more humano-centric, which can be a good thing if that's the style. But I don't think it's incompatible with the idea that coming up against kobolds should feel different than coming up against devils, personally -- even if your monsters are just Bad Guys, it can be useful to know that you need to fight against a kobold infestation in the mines in a different way than you fight against a goblin invasion at midnight.</blockquote>