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Been reading 'D&D: Dungeon Academy' where a kobold student named Snabla equips his magical wooden shield to join fellow human student Zellidora Stormclash's quest to discover the mystery of her missing family.
Really, really like Snabla 'cause of the funny things he says.
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Welcome to the Kobold Cave, a place to talk about all things kobolds! Whether it's kobold encounters, characters or anything else, as long as it's kobolds!!!
I've had the opportunity to play a kobold twice, both as part of ToA with the first being so lenegdary his philosophies would go on to shape characters in other campaigns.
I have a certain... lets call it penchant for playing characters that exist outside of the conventional mold in D&D, ones that buck the obvious trends and power builds so that I can show other people what you can do when you step outside of the meta, and going into that campaign I decided that I was going to play a pure pacifist character that refused to (personally) engage in violence against others as a personal challenge; the other players assumed I was either a fool or trolling since I'd openly stated that I refused to raise my paw in violence even if it was just me and the end boss staring each other down at the climax.
The vehicle for this, was a Koblod rogue named "lucky ted m'seeks", an emmisary from the great kobold nation of Sovietski who was travelling to the surface (or the big cave as his people referred to it in whispers) because he had learned that the masses were suffering under plutarchys and monarchies; surely what these people needed was to be shown the wonders of socialism! And so ted just earnestly spoke of how to everything would just be better by everyone working together and tirelessly worked with his party to exemplify this.
While some had assumed that I was just RPing for funzies, the mad genius of my concept became clear when I hit level 3 and took the mastermind archetype wherein my concept went into overdrive; effectively I could help two people per turn on any action ensuring that we were drowning in advantage during skill checks, and per Volo's I was able to perform Cower, grovel and beg to cause enemies in an AOE to grant advantage to my allies. as a result of this the party was accomplishing feats that they had no business with and I wound up becoming a defacto leader.
Eventually, we made it to the end boss where we confronted acerak and I took a moment to talk to him about the following
Listen, before we start this, theres something that you need to know, something that has to be said because like, we don't know where you're phylactery is so no matter what you're going to still be around even if we aren't.
You got beat by a party that was led by a kobold. Think about that for a second; like really think about it and take it in. This will be with you forever. It will never go away and it can never be undone.
What followed was us having a hard fought battle with the lich who proceeded to hard target me with everything in his arsenal; multiple attacks with an orb of annihilation, shooting the ground with ice to try and get me to fall into lava and finally using power word die after someone scooped me up out of said lava with Bigby's hand. My response on being targetted with an insta-kill spell was to immediately raise my hands in triumph over the sheer effort that he'd need to expend on killing me while my companions who posed an actual threat beat his ass into bone meal.
Still though, the campaign wasn't quite over and I brought out another character, also a kobold.
Said Kobold was Mahty M'seeks, a nervous frustrated wreck of a character who was supposed to be Ted's bodyguard but the party had been just a little faster then him the whole time. Said party realized that while ted was a pacifist, Mahty was most assuredly not and everyone got to see how terrifying a kensai monk with pack tactics could be; not in a million years would that Yaun-ti anathema have expected hot death to look like a kobold with a rapier shrieking "PUURRRRRRRGGGGE!"
Kobolds are my favorite monsters. They’re so fun. Throw a bunch of them on some hyenas or vultures and chuck ‘em at the party!! Good times, good times indeed. (Especially if you reskin the hyenas and vultures as some sort of reptilian creatures.) Or if you want to be really, really mean, throw them on some Pteranodons and have the kobolds Ready their attacks for the flyby. Nasty li’l buggers. Super fun.
Kobolds are my favorite monsters. They’re so fun. Throw a bunch of them on some hyenas or vultures and chuck ‘em at the party!! Good times, good times indeed. (Especially if you reskin the hyenas and vultures as some sort of reptilian creatures.) Or if you want to be really, really mean, throw them on some Pteranodons and have the kobolds Ready their attacks for the flyby. Nasty li’l buggers. Super fun.
I mean, the best way to screw with players is to have them go and try to dig out a kobold colony; oh sure they're outwardly a bunch of cowardly weaklings that need mob tactics to get anything done but if you're trying to take them on on their home turf and you have some dark souls nonsense going on.
I can't believe how much people enjoy my silly little Kobold forum, this brings a smile to my face. :)
I mean kobolds are just amazing for the most part; they're like an entire society of Kevin McCalisters that are perfectly happy to horde shiny things and dig tunnels as long as dragons and/or gnomes aren't involved. They understand that quantity is a certain kind of quality and band together to ensure the survival of their colony against all comers whether that be drow, goblins, dwarves or self righteous murder hobos.
Not gonna lie about how the revisionist version in tome of foes pisses me off with how it throws all of that away.
I had an idea for an NPC, it would be a seemingly normal person that's secretly three kobolds in a trenchcoat , and they give out quests, but all the quests they give would be actually helping the local kobold tribe that the players would be trying to get ride of.
i see this weirdly tall trenchcoat guy at starbucks all the time. orders the same raspberry mocha.... when i say tall, i mean like 6'8"-ish. thin...and the trench coat matches the height, barely see shoes. older gentleman, so has to wear sunglasses that obscure his face even inside....seems nice enough in his daily grind.
in the back of my mind though, i always wonder if it's 3 kobolds stacked up under that trench coat....
I can't believe how much people enjoy my silly little Kobold forum, this brings a smile to my face. :)
I mean kobolds are just amazing for the most part; they're like an entire society of Kevin McCalisters that are perfectly happy to horde shiny things and dig tunnels as long as dragons and/or gnomes aren't involved. They understand that quantity is a certain kind of quality and band together to ensure the survival of their colony against all comers whether that be drow, goblins, dwarves or self righteous murder hobos.
Not gonna lie about how the revisionist version in tome of foes pisses me off with how it throws all of that away.
What's Tome Of Foes?
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I am the Master of Kobolds, tiny dragonsensei!I am the inventor!I am thetrickster!I am the kobold nerd! I also like haikus!
I can't believe how much people enjoy my silly little Kobold forum, this brings a smile to my face. :)
I mean kobolds are just amazing for the most part; they're like an entire society of Kevin McCalisters that are perfectly happy to horde shiny things and dig tunnels as long as dragons and/or gnomes aren't involved. They understand that quantity is a certain kind of quality and band together to ensure the survival of their colony against all comers whether that be drow, goblins, dwarves or self righteous murder hobos.
Not gonna lie about how the revisionist version in tome of foes pisses me off with how it throws all of that away.
What's Tome Of Foes?
before the Mordekainen's Monster's of the Multiverse there were two other compendiums: Volo's Guide to Monstersand Mordekainens Tomb of Foes. They are both legacy items and cannot be purchased anymore (so if you dont own it already, you cant see it on DNDB), they're content updated and moved into the Monster's of the Multiverse.
I can't believe how much people enjoy my silly little Kobold forum, this brings a smile to my face. :)
I mean kobolds are just amazing for the most part; they're like an entire society of Kevin McCalisters that are perfectly happy to horde shiny things and dig tunnels as long as dragons and/or gnomes aren't involved. They understand that quantity is a certain kind of quality and band together to ensure the survival of their colony against all comers whether that be drow, goblins, dwarves or self righteous murder hobos.
Not gonna lie about how the revisionist version in tome of foes pisses me off with how it throws all of that away.
What's Tome Of Foes?
before the Mordekainen's Monster's of the Multiverse there were two other compendiums: Volo's Guide to Monstersand Mordekainens Tomb of Foes. They are both legacy items and cannot be purchased anymore (so if you dont own it already, you cant see it on DNDB), they're content updated and moved into the Monster's of the Multiverse.
Oh thanks for explaining!
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
I am the Master of Kobolds, tiny dragonsensei!I am the inventor!I am thetrickster!I am the kobold nerd! I also like haikus!
I can't believe how much people enjoy my silly little Kobold forum, this brings a smile to my face. :)
I mean kobolds are just amazing for the most part; they're like an entire society of Kevin McCalisters that are perfectly happy to horde shiny things and dig tunnels as long as dragons and/or gnomes aren't involved. They understand that quantity is a certain kind of quality and band together to ensure the survival of their colony against all comers whether that be drow, goblins, dwarves or self righteous murder hobos.
Not gonna lie about how the revisionist version in tome of foes pisses me off with how it throws all of that away.
What's Tome Of Foes?
My bad, meant Monsters of the Multiverse; it compiled a bunch of the different monsters and racesSpecies into a single book while also stripping away the lore associated with any of them which overall made most of them blander while kobolds...
Kobolds went from being a vaguely neurotic race of teamwork oriented trapmongers to dragonkin that have a roar that scares people. It's really, really disheartening.
Lol one of my first adventures as a player, and the DM's first as a DM. He was the first Kobold I'd ever met and we came across the dragon. I figured that they were somewhat similar creatures and so Meepo should try and negotiate or otherwise woo the little dragon.
Apparently, the DM thought that that's not how things work. Meepo is an immortal ice cube memorial of our disagreement. Too late for Meepo, the DM later decided that Meepo was a cool character (heh) and should have spared him. Alas.
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Okay...
Been reading 'D&D: Dungeon Academy' where a kobold student named Snabla equips his magical wooden shield to join fellow human student Zellidora Stormclash's quest to discover the mystery of her missing family.
Really, really like Snabla 'cause of the funny things he says.
Meepo (from the Sunless Citadel) is the best Kobold in existence!!!
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HERE.Meepo died :(
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Meepo? No it's definetly Deekin Scalesinger from Neverwinter Nights for best Kobold.
I've had the opportunity to play a kobold twice, both as part of ToA with the first being so lenegdary his philosophies would go on to shape characters in other campaigns.
I have a certain... lets call it penchant for playing characters that exist outside of the conventional mold in D&D, ones that buck the obvious trends and power builds so that I can show other people what you can do when you step outside of the meta, and going into that campaign I decided that I was going to play a pure pacifist character that refused to (personally) engage in violence against others as a personal challenge; the other players assumed I was either a fool or trolling since I'd openly stated that I refused to raise my paw in violence even if it was just me and the end boss staring each other down at the climax.
The vehicle for this, was a Koblod rogue named "lucky ted m'seeks", an emmisary from the great kobold nation of Sovietski who was travelling to the surface (or the big cave as his people referred to it in whispers) because he had learned that the masses were suffering under plutarchys and monarchies; surely what these people needed was to be shown the wonders of socialism! And so ted just earnestly spoke of how to everything would just be better by everyone working together and tirelessly worked with his party to exemplify this.
While some had assumed that I was just RPing for funzies, the mad genius of my concept became clear when I hit level 3 and took the mastermind archetype wherein my concept went into overdrive; effectively I could help two people per turn on any action ensuring that we were drowning in advantage during skill checks, and per Volo's I was able to perform Cower, grovel and beg to cause enemies in an AOE to grant advantage to my allies. as a result of this the party was accomplishing feats that they had no business with and I wound up becoming a defacto leader.
Eventually, we made it to the end boss where we confronted acerak and I took a moment to talk to him about the following
What followed was us having a hard fought battle with the lich who proceeded to hard target me with everything in his arsenal; multiple attacks with an orb of annihilation, shooting the ground with ice to try and get me to fall into lava and finally using power word die after someone scooped me up out of said lava with Bigby's hand. My response on being targetted with an insta-kill spell was to immediately raise my hands in triumph over the sheer effort that he'd need to expend on killing me while my companions who posed an actual threat beat his ass into bone meal.
Still though, the campaign wasn't quite over and I brought out another character, also a kobold.
Said Kobold was Mahty M'seeks, a nervous frustrated wreck of a character who was supposed to be Ted's bodyguard but the party had been just a little faster then him the whole time. Said party realized that while ted was a pacifist, Mahty was most assuredly not and everyone got to see how terrifying a kensai monk with pack tactics could be; not in a million years would that Yaun-ti anathema have expected hot death to look like a kobold with a rapier shrieking "PUURRRRRRRGGGGE!"
Kobolds are my favorite monsters. They’re so fun. Throw a bunch of them on some hyenas or vultures and chuck ‘em at the party!! Good times, good times indeed. (Especially if you reskin the hyenas and vultures as some sort of reptilian creatures.) Or if you want to be really, really mean, throw them on some Pteranodons and have the kobolds Ready their attacks for the flyby. Nasty li’l buggers. Super fun.
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Your DM did you dirty lol. :)
BoringBard's long and tedious posts somehow manage to enrapture audiences. How? Because he used Charm Person, the #1 bard spell!
He/him pronouns. Call me Bard. PROUD NERD!
Ever wanted to talk about your parties' worst mistakes? Do so HERE. What's your favorite class, why? Share & explain
HERE.I mean, the best way to screw with players is to have them go and try to dig out a kobold colony; oh sure they're outwardly a bunch of cowardly weaklings that need mob tactics to get anything done but if you're trying to take them on on their home turf and you have some dark souls nonsense going on.
I can't believe how much people enjoy my silly little Kobold forum, this brings a smile to my face. :)
I am the Master of Kobolds, tiny dragon sensei! I am the inventor! I am the trickster! I am the kobold nerd! I also like haikus!
I am the maker of The Cult of Mythology Nerds!
Extended Signature! secret link!, extra secret link!
I mean kobolds are just amazing for the most part; they're like an entire society of Kevin McCalisters that are perfectly happy to horde shiny things and dig tunnels as long as dragons and/or gnomes aren't involved. They understand that quantity is a certain kind of quality and band together to ensure the survival of their colony against all comers whether that be drow, goblins, dwarves or self righteous murder hobos.
Not gonna lie about how the revisionist version in tome of foes pisses me off with how it throws all of that away.
I had an idea for an NPC, it would be a seemingly normal person that's secretly three kobolds in a trenchcoat , and they give out quests, but all the quests they give would be actually helping the local kobold tribe that the players would be trying to get ride of.
I am the Master of Kobolds, tiny dragon sensei! I am the inventor! I am the trickster! I am the kobold nerd! I also like haikus!
I am the maker of The Cult of Mythology Nerds!
Extended Signature! secret link!, extra secret link!
i see this weirdly tall trenchcoat guy at starbucks all the time. orders the same raspberry mocha.... when i say tall, i mean like 6'8"-ish. thin...and the trench coat matches the height, barely see shoes. older gentleman, so has to wear sunglasses that obscure his face even inside....seems nice enough in his daily grind.
in the back of my mind though, i always wonder if it's 3 kobolds stacked up under that trench coat....
What's Tome Of Foes?
I am the Master of Kobolds, tiny dragon sensei! I am the inventor! I am the trickster! I am the kobold nerd! I also like haikus!
I am the maker of The Cult of Mythology Nerds!
Extended Signature! secret link!, extra secret link!
I wonder if I should let people RP as kobolds, I think that would be funny.
I am the Master of Kobolds, tiny dragon sensei! I am the inventor! I am the trickster! I am the kobold nerd! I also like haikus!
I am the maker of The Cult of Mythology Nerds!
Extended Signature! secret link!, extra secret link!
before the Mordekainen's Monster's of the Multiverse there were two other compendiums: Volo's Guide to Monstersand Mordekainens Tomb of Foes. They are both legacy items and cannot be purchased anymore (so if you dont own it already, you cant see it on DNDB), they're content updated and moved into the Monster's of the Multiverse.
Oh thanks for explaining!
I am the Master of Kobolds, tiny dragon sensei! I am the inventor! I am the trickster! I am the kobold nerd! I also like haikus!
I am the maker of The Cult of Mythology Nerds!
Extended Signature! secret link!, extra secret link!
I made a poll for everyone to decide!
I am the Master of Kobolds, tiny dragon sensei! I am the inventor! I am the trickster! I am the kobold nerd! I also like haikus!
I am the maker of The Cult of Mythology Nerds!
Extended Signature! secret link!, extra secret link!
My bad, meant Monsters of the Multiverse; it compiled a bunch of the different monsters and
racesSpecies into a single book while also stripping away the lore associated with any of them which overall made most of them blander while kobolds...Kobolds went from being a vaguely neurotic race of teamwork oriented trapmongers to dragonkin that have a roar that scares people. It's really, really disheartening.
Lol one of my first adventures as a player, and the DM's first as a DM. He was the first Kobold I'd ever met and we came across the dragon. I figured that they were somewhat similar creatures and so Meepo should try and negotiate or otherwise woo the little dragon.
Apparently, the DM thought that that's not how things work. Meepo is an immortal ice cube memorial of our disagreement. Too late for Meepo, the DM later decided that Meepo was a cool character (heh) and should have spared him. Alas.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.