Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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Leprechauns are entirely unrelated to kobolds: Leprechauns come from Irish mythology while kobolds come from Germanic myth. They're not particularly similar: kobolds were house spirits that could provide helpful chores in exchange for food and good treatment, leprechauns were solitary pranksters- the association with rainbows and green Elizabethan clothing is a modern invention. Leprechauns have appeared a few times in D&D over the years, but never to my knowledge as a player character option, only as a monster.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Ah ok, because i am from german and Leprechauns are often translated as irish Kobold in german it may coused me a confusion (it was very effective). The german kobold is also a prankster not to be confused with the Heinzelmännchen who are helpful hausspirits. The most famous Kobold in germany is the Pumukel. Also if a Kobold in german mythe is captured in some kind of trap, they are often bound to serve the person that freed them from it.
That version of Kobolds sounds like the creature known as Brownies
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Does it? I don’t think I’d come across that (and I’m from the UK too).
Despite the desire of RPG publishers to catalog them, the various folkloric creatures don't have consistent naming or categorization.
I'll second that. One of my players is mushroom obsessed and I'd love to be able to offer her a D&D equivalent to Daggerheart's Fungral race
It does, but the helpful house spirit is fairly widespread in European myths. Kobolds association with mines (and the element cobalt) came later, when kobolds became conflated with goblins.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Dragon magazine #262 published an article with the title "Half-pint heroes" introducing the PC species/races: buckwan(the unfriendly cousin of brownies), chitine(spiderfok), grippli(little frogmen) and ravenkin(if kenkus could fly)
1d6 chan says there is also a forgotten PC specie, the n'djatwa from Mystara, a half-blood mixture of ogres and elves. Today they could be a goliath subrace.
Phanatons from Mystara are like a cross of moneky and racoon who can glade, like a smaller version of hadoozes.
Diabolus seems like a cross of satyr and tielfling but really they are good people, most of them chaotic good.
Hsiao are giant sentient owls but without hands like the owlkins.
The wooddrakes were feytouched shapesifter dragons who could assume a humanoid shape acording the subrace.
Tabi are winged monkeys.
In Dragon magazine #267 the diopsid(beetlefolk), sapromneme (sentient corpses reanimated by a special fungus) and zygodacts (maybe the record of bizzare playable specie) appeared