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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 8251755" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>Let's look at how they are actually described in the books most people saw for the first two and a half decades of the game:</p><p></p><p>OD&D:</p><p><em>KOBOLDS: Treat these monsters as if they were Goblins except that they will</em></p><p><em>take from 1 - 3 hits (roll a six-sided die with a 1 or 3 equaling 1 hit, a 3 or 4</em></p><p><em>equaling 2 hits, etc.).</em></p><p></p><p>1e:</p><p><em>Description: The hide of kobolds runs from very dark rusty brawn to a rusty</em></p><p><em>black. They have no hair. Their eyes are reddish and their small horns are</em></p><p><em>tan to white. They favor red or orange garb (as an aside, when I first saw the image in the MM, I thought they were wearing mail armor, not scales, especially since the image of them fighting the green dragon in the DMG didn't have scales really at all, but were clearly mini dog men).</em></p><p></p><p>Moldvay Basic:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]135819[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Mentzer Basic:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]135821[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>2e MM:</p><p><em>Barely clearing 3 feet in height, kobolds have scaly hides that range from dark, rusty brown to a rusty black. They smell of damp dogs and stagnant water. Their eyes glow like a bright red spark and they have two small horns ranging from tan to white. Because of the kobolds' fondness for wearing raggedy garb of red and orange, their non-prehensile rat-like tails, and their language (which sounds like small dogs yapping), these fell creatures are often not taken seriously.</em></p><p></p><p>Nothing about being reptilian. Nothing about laying eggs. But many comparisons to mammals (dogs)</p><p></p><p><em>edit</em> the first real comparisons to reptiles were not kobolds per se, but <em><strong>urds</strong></em>, which are described as "distant relatives" of kobolds:</p><p></p><p><em>Urds are distant relatives of kobolds. Three feet tall, with short ivory horns, their bodies are frail and covered with mottled yellow to brick red scales. Their leathery, batlike wings span 8 feet</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 8251755, member: 15700"] Let's look at how they are actually described in the books most people saw for the first two and a half decades of the game: OD&D: [I]KOBOLDS: Treat these monsters as if they were Goblins except that they will take from 1 - 3 hits (roll a six-sided die with a 1 or 3 equaling 1 hit, a 3 or 4 equaling 2 hits, etc.).[/I] 1e: [I]Description: The hide of kobolds runs from very dark rusty brawn to a rusty black. They have no hair. Their eyes are reddish and their small horns are tan to white. They favor red or orange garb (as an aside, when I first saw the image in the MM, I thought they were wearing mail armor, not scales, especially since the image of them fighting the green dragon in the DMG didn't have scales really at all, but were clearly mini dog men).[/I] Moldvay Basic: [ATTACH type="full" alt="1618934172048.png"]135819[/ATTACH] Mentzer Basic: [ATTACH type="full" alt="1618934266086.png"]135821[/ATTACH] 2e MM: [I]Barely clearing 3 feet in height, kobolds have scaly hides that range from dark, rusty brown to a rusty black. They smell of damp dogs and stagnant water. Their eyes glow like a bright red spark and they have two small horns ranging from tan to white. Because of the kobolds' fondness for wearing raggedy garb of red and orange, their non-prehensile rat-like tails, and their language (which sounds like small dogs yapping), these fell creatures are often not taken seriously.[/I] Nothing about being reptilian. Nothing about laying eggs. But many comparisons to mammals (dogs) [I]edit[/I] the first real comparisons to reptiles were not kobolds per se, but [I][B]urds[/B][/I], which are described as "distant relatives" of kobolds: [I]Urds are distant relatives of kobolds. Three feet tall, with short ivory horns, their bodies are frail and covered with mottled yellow to brick red scales. Their leathery, batlike wings span 8 feet[/I] [/QUOTE]
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