I'm looking at the kobold entry on the PRD and I'm thinking that its Hit Dice and Stealth are too low, so I want to make sure I'm not missing something.
HIT DICE
The PRD lists the kobold's hit dice as 1d8, which is the racial hit dice for humanoids. But the humanoid type says:
"Humanoids with 1 Hit Die exchange the features of their humanoid Hit Die for the class features of a PC or NPC class."
The "Kobold Characters" section also says they have no racial Hit Dice, and are defined by their class.
Since the entry says it is a kobold warrior, shouldn't its hit dice be 1d10?
STEALTH
The kobold's Stealth skill also appears to be too low. It has the following entry for skills:
Skills Craft (trapmaking) +6, Perception +4, Stealth +6; Racial Modifiers +2 Craft (trapmaking), +2 Perception, +2 Profession (miner)
As a first level warrior with an Intelligence of 10, it gets two skill points. Breaking it down, it appears its skills were determined like this:
Craft (trapmaking) +6 [+0 Int, +2 Race, +1 Rank, +3 Class Skill]
Perception +4 [-1 Wis, +2 Race, +3 Skill Focus]
Stealth +6 [+1 Dex, +4 Size, +1 Rank]
But kobolds have the "Crafty" special quality, so Stealth is always a class skill. So shouldn't it have a +3 bonus, giving it a total Stealth of +9?
Creative Director
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Yup; errors. The HD error is fixed in the errata.
Unfortunately, it looks like the size bonus to stealth got forgotten; kobolds should indeed have stealth +9 (rank 1, +4 size, +1 dex, +3 class skill). Perhaps if we editors had better Perception skills we would have noticed the missing +3 bonus to Stealth?