DragonLancer
Hero
I ain't got anything against them, but they are just another humanoid race (I miss them being little dogmen though), and a part of traditional D&D.
Who doesn't like kobolds?
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Ankh-Morpork Guard
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Bow before my army of Kobold plushies.
Kobolds
To answer that, it is because they are as fragile as the PCs feel. Players really empathize with that. They are fellow underdogs, regardless of the situation that put the two parties at odds.
I love them. Especially with the leveling ability in D20, they are especially dangerous to underestimate. I had a PC throw a 6die fireball that ended up in (i'm guessing, it was years ago) I think 17 damage and the kobood soaked it. He looked at me for about 5 seconds and blinked before he said anything.
Secondly I love their using ranged weaponry from height. How frustrating it is for PCs to lose 2 and 3 hit points per round to an enemy they can't reach. Especially when I gave them 2hp each.
Finally, in my home-brew, kobolds regen 1 hp every hour. It's amazing how merciless 'good' PCs can be against the wounded when they heal up that fast.
Glorious.
Templetroll said:
To answer that, it is because they are as fragile as the PCs feel. Players really empathize with that. They are fellow underdogs, regardless of the situation that put the two parties at odds.
I love them. Especially with the leveling ability in D20, they are especially dangerous to underestimate. I had a PC throw a 6die fireball that ended up in (i'm guessing, it was years ago) I think 17 damage and the kobood soaked it. He looked at me for about 5 seconds and blinked before he said anything.
Secondly I love their using ranged weaponry from height. How frustrating it is for PCs to lose 2 and 3 hit points per round to an enemy they can't reach. Especially when I gave them 2hp each.
Finally, in my home-brew, kobolds regen 1 hp every hour. It's amazing how merciless 'good' PCs can be against the wounded when they heal up that fast.
Glorious.
I want a life-size kobold doll.
On a side note, one of my earliest characters for a one-shot 3rd edition game was "Shorttooth", a 15th level kobold sorcerer. Armed with a Top-Hat of Disguise (which he rarely used for anything besides looking snazzy), a cape of the Mountebank (because come on, disappearing in a PUFF OF FREAKING SMOKE! Even Teleport Without Error can't do that!) twin gloves of storing (one with a fireball wand, one with a cone of cold wand), and a tuxedo that would make any stage magician envious.
Ever since then, EVERY game I've DMed had shorttooth in it somewhere, in some incarnation.
On a side note, one of my earliest characters for a one-shot 3rd edition game was "Shorttooth", a 15th level kobold sorcerer. Armed with a Top-Hat of Disguise (which he rarely used for anything besides looking snazzy), a cape of the Mountebank (because come on, disappearing in a PUFF OF FREAKING SMOKE! Even Teleport Without Error can't do that!) twin gloves of storing (one with a fireball wand, one with a cone of cold wand), and a tuxedo that would make any stage magician envious.
Ever since then, EVERY game I've DMed had shorttooth in it somewhere, in some incarnation.
I like them more than the larger humanoid races. Magic, traps, cramp tunnels, vermin for pets and expanding their trapmaking bonus to include artifice makes them much tougher than their size indicates. I also like using a gnoll/flind spilt within their race- the swordfodder is the savage, vermin friend that is killed by everyone and I stole the name urd for the mechanical monstrousity creating kobolds that cause sinkholes to capture slaves and food.
ThirdWizard
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Kobolds are second only to Gnolls for my favorite humanoid monster.
Oh the stories I could tell...
Once I had a giant abandoned temple full of kobolds. The PCs found themselves in a huge unlit room surrounded by kobold archers out 80 feet away who didn't fire until the PCs were in the middle of the room. Did I mention that the kobolds had dug 30' deep pits randomly in the dark room? Hillarity ensued.
Oh the stories I could tell...
Once I had a giant abandoned temple full of kobolds. The PCs found themselves in a huge unlit room surrounded by kobold archers out 80 feet away who didn't fire until the PCs were in the middle of the room. Did I mention that the kobolds had dug 30' deep pits randomly in the dark room? Hillarity ensued.
Romnipotent
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Meh... they're just another monster... that you can find with Survival (Wis)
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