Homebrew Dwarven Kobold Species Details

A person with only one dwarven parent is known as a half-dwarf. Due to their relatively short and stocky frame, all half-dwarves walk slightly slower than their size suggests, though they don't seem very burdened carrying heavy loads. One other trait they all share is an ability to see in the dark.

Other than that, differences abound. Some half-dwarves can consume vast quantities of alcohol and even a little poison with few to no adverse effects. Others are naturally tough and can take quite a beating before succumbing to their wounds. Those descended from gray dwarves have latent magic. And those with a mountain dwarf birth parent are naturally strong.

Kobolds can reproduce with other humanoids. If the parent giving birth is a kobold, the children are hatched from laid eggs. Otherwise, the children are birthed in whatever way the non-kobold parent's people use.

About a third of all half-kobolds are urds, born with a pair of leathery draconic wings that allow them to fly. Other half-kobolds inherited a touch of draconic magic. These same half-kobolds feel a restlessness that keeps them up at night while others sleep.

Not all half-kobolds can see in the dark. Those that don't often are afflicted with a sensitivity to sunlight that often drives them underground or to a nocturnal lifestyle.

Some half-kobolds are resistant to one kind of damage delivered by a dragon's breath. Needless to say, this comes in handy when in a dangerous situation.

Dwarven Kobold Traits

Your mixed parentage grants you the following racial traits:

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Age

Your life expectancy is 250 years.

Size

You stand between 3 and 4 feet tall. Your size is Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Superior Darkvision

You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Dragon & Dwarven Resilience

You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance against poison damage.

Dwarven Toughness

Your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a level.

Fury of the Small

When you damage a creature with an attack or a spell and the creature's size is larger than yours, you can cause the attack or spell to deal extra damage to the creature. The extra damage equals your level. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Dwarvish.