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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Johnny Angel" data-source="post: 6372226" data-attributes="member: 13334"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobold" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobold</a>I don't know if there was some connection hinted at in D&D materials, but the myths of such creatures as Kobolds, Gnomes, Goblins, Bogarts, Dwarves and various such terms may be of common origins, with no real way to distinguish them as a bunch of discrete categories of creature just going by what was said about them in folklore and literature. It was the influence of modern fantasy and RPG writers who solidified what these terms mean, and even now other writers mix and match these concepts and assign these names to them as it pleases them. Tolkien was sufficiently influential that few veer far from the meaning he applied to the name, but even D&D which drew from Tolkien quite directly made goblins and orcs a lot more distinct than Tolkien had. Sigh.If somebody ever tells you, "Well, originally [some creatures] were [some description]..." it's likely to have been a lot more complicated than that.</blockquote>