I use both.
Scaly ego-maniacs who think that they are descended from dragons, actually are descended from dragons, and they are called wyrmkin. While they now breed true, they were originally created from unfertilized dragon eggs, from which up to a half dozen wyrmkin (the same color as their mother) can hatch. A female dragon can lay a clutch of eggs every year, and if she eschews the company of males of her species, can have quite the little collection of wyrmkin doting on her every whim. (Many dragons have no patience for the creatures and either devour their own unfertilized eggs, wait for the wyrmkin to hatch and then devour them, or leave the eggs somewhere far from their lair to pester other people.) The vast majority of wyrmkin are 'free-range,' the product of a long line of mommy wyrmkin and daddy wyrmkin, abandoned many generations ago by some annoyed dragoness, and only dream of being the servants of a dragon-mommy...
I have something very similar to this in my homebrew. Great minds...
On a side note, SUIKODEN FOREVER!!!!
Despite going to have my head bitten off, I actually like the new lizard-eske kobold, especially the different types of kobold that Paizo did in Classic Monsters Revisited.
It made my RL falcon's Hollow campaign more fun when the half dragon of the party decided to adopt said kobolds, and if I may borrow a quote the Mikhaila Burnett uses regularly, there were continual We Love You references that annoyed the character, especially when the female kobolds decided to become even more smitten with him, and he abandoned them, making the clan a recurring annoyance to the party!
*awaits the fatal beating he is likely to recieve with this post*
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Kobolds don't age well. It's a rare kobold that sees its fortieth birthday, and the things are wizened and withered well before that. And most kobolds don't live to see old age, in any case.
Kobold histories are passed down orally, rather than in writing. Stories teach kobold young how to live, and which gods they ought to worship, and what happens to kobolds who violate taboos.
So the kobolds don't really remember much of the world sixty summers past. But the humans do, and the elves, and particularly, the dwarves. And the dwarves know that in decades past, kobolds were hairier, and were warm-blooded enough to pass through the chill underground rivers.
Ask a dwarf, and the word she'll use for kobolds will use the prefix nei. But it doesn't mean young, as in the dwarven words for a young dwarf, a human child, or a young dragon. It means new. Kobolds have changed, somehow, in the last century, and the dwarves don't know what to make of it.
However the exact opposite is true for birds! (Yes, this is evolutionary impossible, seeing as mammals supposedly should have evolved from birds)
Sorry to nit-pick but I'm gonna. ;)
Since birds evolved from a species of dinosaur and mammals descended from a mammal-like reptile, I'd have to say that your above statement about mammals evolving from birds is not correct.
Nonsense, heathens, humans were created by <Insert Appropriate Deity> !
'tis evil talk to say that we descend from dragons and great eagles ! Have at thee !
Actually, I thought it was dragons and great beagles.
Nonsense, heathens, humans were created by <Insert Appropriate Deity> !
'tis evil talk to say that we descend from dragons and great eagles ! Have at thee !
Well, I'm a blasphemous heretic and a heretical blasphemer, and I say it was evolution. Either that or some deity did a really crappy job. Left it up to us to bring ourselves to perfection.
If you prefer the dog-like kobolds, these are the minis for you.
If you prefer the dog-like kobolds, these are the minis for you.
Those are great! A boxed set of those, and a looped sound file of a yipping pack of Yorkshire Terriers, and my PCs will be running in terror.
Just to add to kobold awesomeness, how many other D&D creatures gave their name to a metal?
Cobalt is a hard, lustrous, gray metal, a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27. Although cobalt-based colors and pigments have been used since ancient times for making jewelry and paints, and miners have long used the name kobold ore for some minerals, the free metallic cobalt was not prepared and discovered until 1735 by Georg Brandt.
Well, I'm a blasphemous heretic and a heretical blasphemer, and I say it was evolution. Either that or some deity did a really crappy job. Left it up to us to bring ourselves to perfection.
As it very well should be. You're letting Chuck N... I mean Irori down.
If you prefer the dog-like kobolds, these are the minis for you.
They look like droids to me, and that old dude in the brown Snuggie is saying they're not the droids I'm looking for. So, I'm going to have to disagree with you. Now, hang on, I need to go bump my head almost, but not quite, off-camera in scene 87.
Just to add to kobold awesomeness, how many other D&D creatures gave their name to a metal?
Iron golems.