Who doesn't like kobolds?

[MatthewJHanson]

I was going to say that only communists don't like kobols, but it seems even they do.

 

[shilsen]

Seriously, one of the best things about kobolds is that players always, always, always underestimate them, thinking of them as just sword-fodder.

In my experience, that happens just once

 

[clarkvalentine]

There's a kobold artificer PC in my occasional Eberron game. He's a blast.

 

[Shemeska]

I want a kobold plushy. I demand one. Buy me one. Now! Snap to it!

In my campaign they're somewhere between Quasits and Dust Mephits on the scale of being utterly annoying yet amusing, but I adore them anyway.

 

[Chimera]

In my homebrew, they're almost literally vermin, breeding like rabbits (figuratively speaking) with the lifespan of a dog (8-10 years) and the ability to hatch and survive on their own (missed a few buried egg clutches when you cleared those hills? Oops!).

Add in the traps (like left-over landmines even after you clear out the Kobolds) and the occasional Sorcerer and it makes them really fun for me as a GM.

And a cockroach like plague for PCs.

 

[Numion]

I like kobolds. A good opposition for low-level adventurers, and I happen to like the flavour side too. I once had a black dragon that had kobold worshippers, and that allowed me to use them in a higher level adventure, complete with 11th level Kobold sorcerer (how a kobold could ever prowess that level of magical aptitude was beyond the adventure ) But its nice to know that while low-level PCs like killing kobolds, there might be some payback down the road later on.

 

[Aust Diamondew]

I like kobolds. Even though in every game I've ever ran most races had an extreme dislike for them (who knows why but some how kobolds have managed to piss off about every sentient creature on the planet and most non-sentient creatures think they taste good). But I still wanted to answer 'has a rack of kobold skulls in closet' just because they're so much fun to kill.

 

[Arcane Runes Press]

I like them well enough, but I liked them better before the idea of kobolds as iconic, underestimated ass beaters became more common than their original status as sword fodder for 1st level heroes.

Kobolds have become sort of like orcs. "My orcs are different. They're honourable, savage warriors!" Yep, your's and everybody else's.

Patrick Y.

 

[Templetroll]

Nasty, devious and short. The trapmaking, and more recently sorcery, added to the lizard-brain killer instinct makes them a great encounter for any level. Almost as good villians a humans are. I agree with the comment above about personality; I'm not sure why but folks seem to react better to kobolds than other monster races.

One I've experienced was in my homebrew, first adventure I ran the party captured one kobold who couldn't get a door open to escape through. They got him drunk to question him, then kept him around. The player ran him as an NPC for 1000 exp. and then as a character. Gub-Gub started organizing monsters to be more like adventuring parties so they could kill better. I ran small sidequests for him for a couple months then he moved into a dungeon the players knew of and sent out scrolls to attract adventurers. One of my other players created a paladin just to go in and risk being killed! I'd run an encounter with some creatures gathered by Gub-Gub once a year, enough to let them know he was out there and working on it.

I like them well enough, but I liked them better before the idea of kobolds as iconic, underestimated ass beaters became more common than their original status as sword fodder for 1st level heroes.

Kobolds have become sort of like orcs. "My orcs are different. They're honourable, savage warriors!" Yep, your's and everybody else's.

Patrick Y.

Yeah, that's the Klingon effect. I'm going back to most orcs are craven things. Since Birthright I've had the goblin races be the more civilized ones.

 

[Richards]

I've always been a big fan of kobolds. There's even a link in my sig to a rejected Ecology article I did on kobolds several years back.

Johnathan