I was looking for a race with specific stat boosts and while in a character sheet found "Kobold" as a race option and picked it.
Didnt even know about shifty.
They shouldnt have it in the race options if not supposed to be used.
When did Sneak Attack get upgraded?
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I was looking for a race with specific stat boosts and while in a character sheet found "Kobold" as a race option and picked it.
Didnt even know about shifty.
They shouldnt have it in the race options if not supposed to be used.
its an artifact of that 4Ed "exception based" rule design. Kobolds aren't supposed to be used for PCs, therefore they have abilities that PCs can't otherwise have...and probably shouldn't, in some cases.
If/when they make Kobolds into an official PC race, they won't look like the ones in the MM.
If/when they make Kobolds into an official PC race, they won't look like the ones in the MM.
Destil
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For what it's worth, I've had a kobold in my game. I nerfed shifty to a free action encounter power that lets him shift as a minor until the end of his next turn, with a paragon tier feat to make it at will. It's a nice power, and a little more than I want to see a PC have at heroic (same reason I don't allow dark-vision at level 1), but it's not broken. It's not even close to what a half elf can do with Versatile Master, and kobolds have no other feat support.
These days ranged PCs have to go out of their way to provoke AoOs, so shifty is mostly extra flanking options. Again, compare it to something like permafrost, not really close.
The only legitimate issue it can really lead to is dead-zone prone (leave an opponent 1 square away and prone so they can't stand and charge). And if players want to abuse that the window's already open elsewhere, it's just a little easier. Since it's literally all the race has I can't say it's overpowered.
These days ranged PCs have to go out of their way to provoke AoOs, so shifty is mostly extra flanking options. Again, compare it to something like permafrost, not really close.
The only legitimate issue it can really lead to is dead-zone prone (leave an opponent 1 square away and prone so they can't stand and charge). And if players want to abuse that the window's already open elsewhere, it's just a little easier. Since it's literally all the race has I can't say it's overpowered.
The MM gives you an option to use them as a PC race, opens the door to it.
The main issue is they look silly with there long tails and ugly faces, even a hooded long cloak cant hide the tail, finding a decent pic is the main support I am looking for
Dead zone is achieved with shift 1 and deft strike move 2 without kobold support.
