Pathfinder Player Companion: Kobolds of Golarion (PFRPG)

That will be in 'Kinks of Golarion,' for the mature Kinkfinder line, which has been pushed back to the fifth quarter.

Smarch can't come soon enough!

Well, there are Char, Black Tail, Ghost, Klikjack, and Dractus in the Forgotten King's Tomb (released this week). That's 5 somewhat-iconic kobold PCs.

Seriously, if FKT doesn't tide you over until the Kobolds in Golarion release, I don't know what will.

Buyin'. Again, KQ kobolds are adorable.

But man that is an unfortunate acronymn...

Waaaaahoooo! Thank you.

Alright. I am going to have a very happy player when this comes out. He loves kobolds. To the point I finally gave in took the race and redid them with the racial building rules. Just so he could play them with all the flavor, but on a more equal plane to others.

Then he promptly voted another player as GM and persuaded me to run one as well. Currently I'm the group fighter. A kobold fighter with a falcata and this might be useful for her.

I am merk-merking for joy!

Would it be heretical to suggest that kobolds share a common ancestor with troodon and should have a few feathers?

Finally some Kobold love! I cannot wait to add all sorts of options to my Kobold..Sir Snugglington( he was captured by a feudal lord, he was forced to have tea parties with the lords daughter)

Finally some Kobold love! I cannot wait to add all sorts of options to my Kobold..Sir Snugglington( he was captured by a feudal lord, he was forced to have tea parties with the lords daughter)

I am both bemused and terrified lol.

It wasn't that bad, kinda funny playing out the tea party to be honest :S.

I think that many of us have enjoyed playing the scaly mahem that is the kobold. I played Zim, the long-suffering kobold bard/dragon disciple in Galnorag's Second Darkness Campaign.

He was loosly based on the concept of what Invader Zim and Dr. Horrible would be like if they knew what they were doing. The comics were just a fun way to chronicle the campaign for my fellow players.

Glad to see Paizo has responded to our suggestions. Now let's just hope the next idea they have is something we can also enjoy.

I created a low level Frieda/Kurzia expulsion kobold. Smooth.

I know it's something a lot of people are hoping for (myself included); will there be support for kobolds with non-chromatic ancestry? Metallic alone would be nice, but I had a player in my last campaign who was a heavens oracle kobold with sky dragon ancestry. He was dark blue, had little lightning-bolt shaped horns, and an impressive fu man chu. In addition, I let the kobold dragon breath feat give him a cone of lightning, as befit his ancestry. Support for all that stuff would just be fantastic. Will we see any of this?

I know it's something a lot of people are hoping for (myself included); will there be support for kobolds with non-chromatic ancestry? Metallic alone would be nice,

That would indeed be intriguing.

It was jazz up the flavor of Hermea considerably if there were hundreds of gold-scaled kobold servants of Mengkare who conveyed his will directly to the humans (most of whom would never have met their draconic overlord personally).

I know it's something a lot of people are hoping for (myself included); will there be support for kobolds with non-chromatic ancestry? Metallic alone would be nice, but I had a player in my last campaign who was a heavens oracle kobold with sky dragon ancestry. He was dark blue, had little lightning-bolt shaped horns, and an impressive fu man chu. In addition, I let the kobold dragon breath feat give him a cone of lightning, as befit his ancestry. Support for all that stuff would just be fantastic. Will we see any of this?

I really hope that we do!

Given the sad demise of Kobold Quarterly, I'd love to see some little nod/homage/easteregg in Kobolds of Golarion. A named NPC? A reference to a Koboldic scholarly journal? Not sure what. But something. It just seems fitting.

New sub-domains related to kobold areas of interest like Dracomancy (sub-domain of Magic), or Excavation (sub-domain of Earth) or Traps (sub-domain of Trickery, or perhaps Artifice?), could be cool.

The new sub-domains for the goblin demigods were one of my favorite crunchy bits in Goblins of Golarion.

We be kobolds is an anagram of Wes Be Kobold!

Just saying...

I like those subdomain ideas, Set.

We be kobolds is an anagram of Wes Be Kobold!

Just saying...

Dangit! Now I can't stop looking for anagrams. <shakes fist>

I got my first respect for the kobolds in Dragon Mountain.

Given the sad demise of Kobold Quarterly, I'd love to see some little nod/homage/easteregg in Kobolds of Golarion. A named NPC? A reference to a Koboldic scholarly journal? Not sure what. But something. It just seems fitting.

I certainly hope so! And also maybe a legendary kobold trapsmith and strategist named Tukkerr...

Given the sad demise of Kobold Quarterly, I'd love to see some little nod/homage/easteregg in Kobolds of Golarion. A named NPC? A reference to a Koboldic scholarly journal? Not sure what. But something. It just seems fitting.

Maybe some note on kobold adventurers typically being "small but fierce"?

Gotta vote for Meepo as the iconic/referenced in the book. Little dude tugged so hard on my player's heart strings, they listened to his tale of woe, did his side quest of dragon wrangling and even let him and his tribe live. 1st level PCs . . . NOT killing kobolds indiscriminately. AFAIK, they are still there, ruling over the Sunless Citadel.

Hooray!

Don't forget Deekin from Neverwinter Nights! The kobold bard who chronicles the story of the hero while singing of their imminent doom. The guy is fantastic.

"And as the heroes makes their way, the faithful kobold companion discovered that his underwear was riding much to tightly."

"Doom doom doom, doom doom doom, doomedy doom doom."

"We be in the dungeon, oooh yeah! We be in the dungeon with monsters!"

Kobold king is a happy happy lizard!

I'd rather have more serious kobolds than the jesters they once were.

I'd rather have more serious kobolds than the jesters they once were.

Golarion Goblins pretty much already have the 'keystone cops / comic relief / whacky incompetents' angle covered. I'd expect, just to keep things fresh, that Golarion Kobolds are stone-cold serious.

Cheapy wrote:

I'd rather have more serious kobolds than the jesters they once were.

Golarion Goblins pretty much already have the 'keystone cops / comic relief / whacky incompetents' angle covered. I'd expect, just to keep things fresh, that Golarion Kobolds are stone-cold serious.

Tiny Joe Pesci "chip on their shoulder" types? ;)

And also maybe a legendary kobold trapsmith and strategist named Tukkerr...

AH! I see what you did there!

>:D

Master Yap?

Hummm what I would like to see is features and feats for a tribe of good (or trying to be good) kobolds, say a tribe being watched over from a gold dragon or something...

Well that would make an interesting campaign at least.

That will be in 'Kinks of Golarion,' for the mature Kinkfinder line, which has been pushed back to the fifth quarter.

*Faceclaw*

I'm gonna try to ignore that. Well, beyond the faceclaw. Plus this. Moving on.

I'm really happy about this. Kobolds are such awesome monsters--cowardly, spiteful and incredibly dangerous if you're dumb enough to play by their rules. Add in big egos and tiny bodies and you have the basis for a pretty darn fun adversary.

It wasn't that bad, kinda funny playing out the tea party to be honest :S.

I am so stealing that character for something. Just so you know.

Updated to final cover and description!

In the background next to the red jumping Kobold is that Lini or a pile of fungus?

Can't it be both?

That is a wonderful cover. Not just because of Seoni, but the art is fantastic. Keep that artist around..

It looks like it's by Dan Scott. He did Guide to the River Kingdoms, From Shore to Sea, Isles of the Shackles, and Prince of Wolves.

Her face is quite striking. I really like that cover.

Nice cover art, as to be expected.

I was wondering when the cover was going to be updated. I "saved image as" from the Pathfinder Art FB page like a month ago.

Excited for the book in any case. Been thinking about playing a kobold for a while.

Her face is quite striking. I really like that cover.

I was thinking the same thing. I really like Seoni's face on that cover!

Speaking of faces, that kobold's gonna need some bactine, stat!

kobolds make allies among the surface races and exert influence in many of Golarion’s cities

This has me very curious. I absolutely love the kobolds of Zobeck, so I'm wondering if a bit of that might be happening in some Golarion cities, even if to a lesser degree.

Well those red scaled kobolds might have fire resistance, so you never know.

KOBOOOOOOLDS! Hopefully this is a step toward being legal in Society.

And hey, I can even tie it into the history of my half-elf paladin: Valedar befriended an entire tribe of kobolds and kicked out the leader they hated. I could say that the character was a member of Taka's tribe that Valedar left his hat with (he's got plenty of backups) and the kobold decided "I wanna be like him!" or something to that effect.

Amazing how things work out, innit? Of course, this is all desperate hopes and it may not happen.

is that giant crystal growth behind Seoni a spell? cause a wall of crystal spikes spell sounds sorta awesome.

I think it's just supposed to be a cave formation. Kobolds do live underground.

I suspect that, come June 26th, there are going to be a lot of players out there that will suddenly find themselves stuck in a labyrinthine cavern complex, riddled with suspisciously sized murder holes.

God I love kobolds.

Your making me think of
Dragon Mountain
which I heard from someone who has played in it.

Jackissocool wrote:

I know it's something a lot of people are hoping for (myself included); will there be support for kobolds with non-chromatic ancestry? Metallic alone would be nice,

That would indeed be intriguing.

It was jazz up the flavor of Hermea considerably if there were hundreds of gold-scaled kobold servants of Mengkare who conveyed his will directly to the humans (most of whom would never have met their draconic overlord personally).

Consider this idea stolen. 8^)