Basically Kobolds 

Now meet my half dragon cousin: drive.google.com/file/d/1d-XqrHLMfd7MCoNFn7KMK5T5iPPtsIrs/view

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Lmaoo hahaha

I literally laughed out loud

That is truly hilarious 🤣

Gosh dang it man

I kinda want to make gnomes related to giants now.

@@an8strengthkobold360 they might be? head-canons people head-canons

@@an8strengthkobold360 as far as I remember, gnomes came from gemstones buried in the earth. Maybe we could work that: giants, being big lugs, needed small individuals for specific works, then storm & cloud commissioned rock ones to form small vassals, loyal to giants to do small task. War came to its zenith, and this work-in-progress became buried in the tunnels that were inhabited by these rock giants. Dragons won, made kobolds, and those excavated the first gnomes. The rest, is history...

.... I have never thought of it like this and now I need to harass others with it.

They are basically the introvert and extrovert sibling races- gnomes are the extroverts who share their creations and played pranks on thier introvert sibling, and kobolds just want to be left alone and so make traps to keep their nosy sibling out of their stuff. This just started on the divine level and so escalated into a race wide grudge when it trickled down to the mortals

@@timothycarney9652 Yeah, I can see that, that's actually a really interesting take. I never thought about how gnomes represented extroverts and kobolds represented introverts...

If they worked together, then it would be like having 5 times as many gnomes in the world.

@@connordarvall8482 basically, yeah

True :D Also, have some homebrew: drive.google.com/file/d/1jwzSPWIe3aq1wFSLiQh8vUaLf03yr56j/view

Yep, my kobold was taken in by a silver dragon in disguise. He and the other orphans were treated like the old man's children and taught manners and such. Still isn't super great with manners but at least he knows them. He just forgets sometimes and has to stop and apologize.

Like trying to raise feral raccoons… so cute!

@@fumarc4501 When all the other dragons start referring to you as the "Crazy Cat Lady".

@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 Which is funny when you consider that dragons are basically just big, scaly cats.

That's cute and wholesome, I love it

That is amazing

Bless’em

All fun and games until one of them gets assasinated and their parcel stolen, but they survive and eventually go on a quest for revenge and eventually decide the fate of the Mojave Wastela- i mean the world i guess

@@huckybein30 omg the courior is a Kobald... that makes so much sense especially with how I play

@@huckybein30 All while still screaming

I actually got a homebrew campaign in the works where fantasy races and magic were introduced to Earth in the late 1700s, with Central Europe being ground zero. Hamburg has an unusually large number of Kobolds, who even live and thrive out on the surface (though mostly at night). They secretly work for an adult Steel Dragon who disguises herself as the Grand Burgheress of Hamburg. The Kobolds act as her eyes and ears in the city, helping gain political leverage, ousting organized crime, foiling plots, etc. Because the Kobolds make up a large amount of the labor force, and the lack of gnomes in the city, ships produced by the shipyards are distinct and unique to Hamburg, following Koboldic philosophies rather than the usual human, gnomish, dwarvish, or elvish design philosophies found in most shipyards.

I'm currently playing a Kobold Paladin/Rouge who's exactly that. However, he's an idiot and doesn't lose any of his Kobold...ness...

im currently playing a copper kobold who is chaotic good and hella fun metallic dragons who worship bahumut for the win!

Imagine the silver kobolds who gather history about the local area, while their dragon is, idk, flirting with the bard in human guise or something.

@@loganb7059 I can confirm, Hamburg is indeed filled to the Brim with Kobolds

And now it's going to be part of mine. Thanks for the great idea, I love this!

Love it, stealing it.

Consider that idea stolen XD

r/KoboldLegion

I'll just be writing that one down...

How about Half Dragons? :) drive.google.com/file/d/1d-XqrHLMfd7MCoNFn7KMK5T5iPPtsIrs/view

Can confirm as a kobold wizard

Exactly, surely they should see these small draconic creatures as a risk-group to fall into the clutches of an evil dragon. And then try to prevent that.

I agree :) I did miss half dragons in 5E, so I use Homebrew for that instead: drive.google.com/file/d/1d-XqrHLMfd7MCoNFn7KMK5T5iPPtsIrs/view

Kobolds are the best

@@an8strengthkobold360 User name checks out

if they didnt have that stupid negative to strength

@@mudawott they don’t anymore, they’ve removed negative modifiers from pc races last year or so

In 3.5 at least, they are big into mining- as in the default Kobold comunity is a mine- I don't know if they changed that for 5e or if Runsmith just skipped over that since he already did on vid on Kobolds specifically about their lairs and tactics, but that is in their wheel house. Though in 3.5 their religious origin is different- in 3.5 Kurtulurmak was a creation of some of the first dragons, not Tiamat- basically Io, the ninefold dragon, created Bahamut and Tiamat, to be the adam and eve of dragons, but they hated each other, and so they and the other less known dragon gods all created dragons independently- thus the many varieties. Eventually some of these primordial immortal demigod dragons asked Io for the secret to creating life so they could have followers, after saying that doing so would remove their immortality and them being fine with that he agreed, and showed them how to bleed kobolds into existance. Kurtumulak was a servant of a green dragon and made her such a lavish lair that she granted him freedom, and he proceeded to lord over a bunch of other kobolds and try and creat his own lavish home- then Gnarl shows up to rob him and either pulls a trap that hurts kurtulumak or messes up one of Kurt's traps to do the same. In the present in 3.5 Kurt lives in a Divine mine in one of the lower planes a rediculously packed home for all dead kobolds, a paradise to them, being surrounded by all their family for all eternity. Kobold mines basically devote themselves to producing things they can put in their shrine to kurt and defending themselves, until the mine is tapped out then they use magic to find a place to start a new one, or they grow so successful that half of them leave to do the same.

Glaring omission? you got look closer friend. In Volo's guide it talks about Kobold's whole culture surrounding mining, like they mine themselves to death. I'm pretty sure there's a Kobold metropolis in the Underdark that nobody talks about, every adventurer meets the smaller and young tribes trying to break out on their own. They're real problem is their lack of strength, and being so underestimated the writers themselves treat them as a joke lol.

@@Elessar0wind Actually my DM made something like this. A dragonborn became the figurehead of a group that wanted only draconic blood to be left in a massive scorched earth war and they built a massive tunnel system to prepare. As in this man made a straight up megadungeon we have only seen 1 floor of so far since we noped the hecc out after being chased out by a nearly infinite army of kobolds. By his own account the number of floors is in the dozens.

The only thing kobolds do is wake up, gather to search for their inner dragon (meditate for about 15min) and then mine till its bed time. Not even dwarfs mine as long and enthusiastic as kobolds do Their whole relationship "system" works around "the one I work the hardest with/the one I have the most fun working with" thats how they "love"

My mistake, I think what I really meant wasn’t mining but something more along the lines of industry. Kobolds mine, but they’re usually portrayed as poor and ill equipped and that doesn’t really make sense to me.

I mean, we don't actually know a lot about human history in dnd. Why are they the dominant species in a world with elves and dragons? Where do they come from? etc

I don't think he would add anything we don't know. Then it wouldn't be "*basically* humans" but "top 10 things you didn't know about humans". The best would be to look at humans from an outsiders perspective like he does for every other video for obvious reasons. One example could be this one cute fact that humans aren't an aquatic or even a sub-aquatic species but just love to play and splash in water :D

@@2ms2 Because they are versitile. A barbarian Elf, very rare. A barbarian Human, pretty common. A bardic dwarf, pretty rare. A bardic human, pretty common. You get the idea. Humans can fit into any niche required of them much easier than other races.

Surprise twist: it's his first 40k lore video.

You're human, here's your spear. You're basic. Roll credits.

She sounds like a precious baby

she is basically the adorable Kobold NPC that the players adopt except a PC. unlike goblins kobolds are almost always adorable even when there trying to collapse a cavern on you

That’s fantastic xD

@@thebaron2277 yeah, goblins can still be very cute, like Nott

NO DM, MY STORY ISNT TOO LONG My first character: "Hodekin" (from the Germanic kobold of the same name) though usually called "Hod" (as in the tool stonemasons use to carry heavy, unwieldy loads over their shoulders) Hod's job was to travel and survey the surrounding area, bringing back food for his tribe and information for his master, on the movements and activities of the mountain ranges inhabitants. Hod comes back from one of his two week trips, finds many dead, pursues the sounds of metal clanging, yips and hollers, but cannot follow, do to the rock slide traps that had sealed the way up. doubles back to a ventilation tunnel, and climbs the mountain from the outside. sees his master die at the hands of some adventurers, including a previously polymorphed silver dragon. they sack the treasure room, hod gets caught by one and locked in a cabinet. hours later when its quiet he breaks out, stumbles on the nursery, finds one surviving egg (he's a ranger drakewarden). digs the 60lb egg out of the cool ashes, and drags it out down the mountain. stoking a new fire for it in a burrow until it hatches, it survives, but stunted. Hod is gracious and charitable to those around him, but his methods of achievement include subversion and evil if needed, for goals that are neutral or indifferent in intent, but likely catastrophic. he's kindness is genuine but calculated, poised for betrayal, with no desire to plunge the knife, a means to an end, helping the drake become the true red dragon it was meant to be. secondary goal: network with other kobolds of the dale, and find whats left of his tribe. 8/29/21 They went murderhobo, so i retired the character since he wants nothing to do with them and never had a reason to like them. One of them killed a random old dude for 25g (we dont use silver or copper, so thats nothing) and stole a spell book from a shelf and turned the whole party fugitive, all but my kobold. So, i made a warforged Juggernaught who is a Fighter(eventual rune knight)/Artificer - Armorer 22AC, 50 movement, 500lbs, 7ft tall If i use expeditious retreat, and double dash thats 200 movement 500lbs at 33.33 ft/s (22.7 mph) = 11703 joules = 8636 ft/lbs = 15.21 horsepower at speed 500lbs at 16.66 ft/s (11.3 mph) = 2924 joules = 3.80 horsepower at speed m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r8Rh6KuuH6w.html I dont care that the same hobo barbarian pulled a card from the deck of many things and gained 4 levels above the rest, I rolled like a MOFO for stats 20 str, 20 dex, 18 con, 20 int, 14 wis, 14 cha - after all contributing factors. (We roll and put the numbers wherever like)

Wait... were two other players the other kobolds? That sounds hilarious.

Must have needed to see the future to walk about while carrying 2 other blokes and not trip

@@tyrongkojy Yep, a Fiend Warlock was the Head and a Wild Magic Sorcerer was the Body. We all share initiative and take our turns one after the other.

@@unknownentityenthusiast6765 Movement was a Skill check in combat, the Dash Action was a Save, the Dodge Action was an Acrobatics group skill check and If the attacks hit us the DM roll a d6 1-2 Head, 3-4 Body and 5-6 Legs to see who took the damage. A lot of my Foretelling Numbers went to stop us from falling.

@@moodyfingers7301 amazing. I love it

It's three kobolds :D

Do it

I also had an idea for a Kobold Swashbuckler named Riddles. The Kobold as a creature was inspired off of Germanic myths and rather than being a dragon adjacent creature they were a type of Fae or Nature Spirit that dwelled in Rocks and Trees. If you appeased the Kobold they would help you out like leading you to good trees for lumber or ore veins in the rock, but if you angered the Kobold they would play dastardly tricks like poisoning ores! This is where the metal "Cobalt" gets its name. If you take the Wood that belonged to a Kobold and used it to build a Ship the Wood Kobold would become a Sea Kobold and help aboard the ship so long as you leave it alone, if someone were to try to see the Kobold while it's working the Kobold would get angry and cause the ship to sink! This was my inspiration for Riddles! He was a Kobold who dwelled in a forest with his clan until a bunch of humans came along and said "Actually we own this land now!" Killed off most of the Clan, cut down their trees, and sold the remaining Kobolds into slavery. Riddles ended up aboard a boat scheming his way to becoming a Pirate so he could free his fellow Kobolds from captivity and plunder Human Trade ships to get back at them. Since Kobolds are very small and nocturnal they could hide below deck during the day and trick people into thinking their boat is abandoned while at night they use some stealth and theatrics to make it appear to be a Ghost Ship!

Played a kobold swashbuckler Named Krown, and he's become a table top legend

That was my first character. A Kobold swashbuckler pirate who stole his master's identity

wait why ua? I thought kobold is already a race in volo's, and swashbuckler in xanathar. *looks up ua kobold* well it doesn't even make sense. Why would a kobold not know draconic, be able to deal the damage of a mace with their tail while being like 15 kg and use an intimidating roar while being the size of a big cat. There's almost no creatures at 3 feet that can make intimidating sounds, and kobolds aren't specifically known to be some kind of loud creature. (the only 3ft creatures with an intimidating noise I know are honking geese and howler monkeys, yet they still aren't much of a roar)

As Rick and Morty taught us, all dragons are sluts.

Anyone that stupidly opposed to someone liking anthropomorphic creatures is a lame person to hang out with. Do it anyway and they can just suck it up.

@@XShadOBabeX Preach. How dare you diss my lizards!

Kobolds = Goblins but furries/scalies.

@@AndrewChumKaser So, like, superior?

No, flying goblins are like flying roaches. Winged kobolds are like flying rats

@@Doublemonk0506 Still horrifying, but for different reasons

whoa whoa, how dare you even suggest such plagiarism /S

@@sk8paradoxity I mean I'm not but if anything it is an interesting concept that the two type of story types

I love that idea! Draconic cities are always great! Might I suggest adding some half dragons as well? drive.google.com/file/d/1d-XqrHLMfd7MCoNFn7KMK5T5iPPtsIrs/view

in our current campaign (also icewind dale), my kobold character intends to network with other leaderless kobolds (after careful vetting), eventually digging underground trade/spy routes to each town, out performing other courier services, do to the safety and speed of what is essentially an underground highway. purchase multiple small homes, creating secret access and muster points within the walls, in case the power creep is not appreciated. the dead don't pay taxes, friends give freely, so all kobolds are to be the nicest little helpers, but mark those that show cruelty. prefer to deal with problem individuals financially, they cannot compete if all their competitors are receiving free labor. they will eventually have to give up their businesses and work lower positions reducing their influence in the towns, or be dealt with more severely in secret, "idk dude, guess he left town, couldn't hang with the scale squad". each magically inclined tribe member is responsible for the acquisition of info regarding sources of magic that can transform my characters drake into the true dragon it was meant to be. likewise, some ghost elf was bitching about us being on her land, we meant no insult or imposition, but where attacked, so after she was gone, my character dumped whale oil all over the grove, and lit it with a spark of prestidigitation. same happened to some druid that was crying about trees being cut down. could have been friends to help you, but you chose aggression.

That's awesome actually

@@lucase.crusader1196 Timat goes like “I just sawed this demigod in half!”

Actually kobolts see all dragons as divini much like how humans see angels as divini and there's even information out there on how bronz dragons will use them as labour force to move their hordes when they mive out into another liar. They already serve all dragons so this will not change them as much as you may think. As for my final point, there's WAY more types of dragons out there then the chromatic, metalic and gem. You also have ferros, long, outerplanar, neutral, the two iterations of lendworms (not sure if they do serve them), awesome, catastrophic and on of a kind species like cobra (and meaby stellar and void), and much much more.

@@nicolaezenoaga9756 This is based mostly on the current 5e lore, in which the things I stated are pretty spot on. And yes, I know about all the other bajillion types of dragons, but the main focus has always been on the main two families, so that's what I focused on here. You're free to interpret it however you want.

Grab a magic item and run for the sewers.

We will rise again

Funny part about that, Kurtelmak represents all the traits of kobolds pushed up to 11, so if he ever managed to get out it would be vary bad for the gnomes, kobolds are known to hold grudges when they feel they have been slighted and it's up to them how they define "getting even" with the person they hold a grudge with, in addition kurtelmak doesn't possess a sense of humor, is a medium level god in terms of power, what he does possess is an incredible level of creativity and planning, in addition to being like a 4 class multi-class, each at level 20, being around 6 foot tall, and having a stinger like a wyvern on the end of his tail. I imagined a scenario in which a party of adventurers tracks down a group of kobolds that have been getting more violent and stealing powerful and valuable magic items, only to track them down to the maze kurtelmak is trapped in, and when they get there they see one of the walls has been broken down, and what looks to be a 6 foot tall kobold steps out, with each of the other kobolds kneeling in front of it and presenting it with items, like a sword, shield, and armor. Then having one of the characters with either knowledge religion or knowledge lore do a check to see if they could figure out whats happening, or they could jump in and try to fight him completely unprepared and with no knowledge about how screwed they would be.

Don’t let JoCat here you say that

Sir...how dare you

In DnD, yessiree. In Pathfinder, though, those football-headed weirdos are the best.

Why don't adventurers eat the kobolds then if they're like chickens? I mean, they probably taste like chicken too! >:P

I had a campain idea for a dragonwrought kobold to try straight up empire building- in 3.5 kobold communities are built around their mines, in them actually, and either run until the ore is tapped out, or their tribe grows too big so they split liek ameobas and half of them go to find a spot for a new mine. My kobold's idea was basically "why do we, who share the blood of dragons, have no kingdoms or empires like other races" and then engineer around the aforementioned tribal practice to fix that. Basically the plan was to 1 engineer ways to maximize a kobold tribe's population- use magic to max out housing and food production to delay needing to split (also probably start off in a location centered around a religious site or something other than a mine that will run out if possible) 2 scout other mining sites ahead of time and start digging out paths to them, complete with watchposts and rest stops. 3 when the tribe does get too big, use those paths to not only simplify the split, but to maintain contact so it is less a straight split and more an expansion. Rinse and repeat with a bit of diplomacy to incorporate other Kobolds and some tech/magical development to leverage kobold advantages (sorcerers, traps and huge population) and you have a growing connected community of Kobolds that will be a devestating surprise to other nations- expecting adventurers to squash a small kobold mine encroaching on their land, only for them to not only be very dug in and well armed, but to have rediculous numbers via reinforcements. My ideas for tech/magic development included things like, a magic item built around the goodberry spell to make extremely nutritious and filling food preserves, using stone shape and ironwood for reinforced architecture, using a combination of shape wood and ironwood for a sustainable supply of metalic parts for crafting.

Raccoon Dragonborn

i'm not entirely sure you can call that *supporting* the city

@@VimyGlide Eh, like I said, mixing the two, yes it's more supporting the dragon n' all, but still

Sounds like The Dark Crystal

They kinda got hit with the same stick tieflings did. Standardization makes for easier merch.

now i'm just imagining kobolds and gnomes pranking each other on a geopolitical scale ala hans island and as a canadian i can't stop laughing

The Battlesmith Kobold gets to ride his Steel Defender into battle. So much opportunity to use Pack Tactics.