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I'm putting together a homebrew, and want lots of kobolds.
I've modified the Dungeon adventure "Devil in a Box," Darkmoon Vale (Hollow's Last Hope, Crown & Revenge of the Kobold King), and the Pathfinder Society Sewer Dragons. For additional source material, I have "A Touch of Evil: Kobolds."
Is there any other great stuff on kobolds you recommend?
Kobold Quarterly ;)
Also, they are cr rated same as humans so you have no problems :)
One suggestion from my own homebrew kobold campaign: if they're the "dragon worshiping" types, model elites after different aspects of said dragon; examples (mine were modeled around a black dragon):
Horned One kobold - instead of having useless little nub horns these kobolds have massive ram horns. I gave them decent str, Ftr 1 and both imp bull rush and agile maneuvers so their bull rush attacks were decent.
Tailswipe kobolds - little nasties with a combat tail for a free trip attack. They made insane rogues.
Mireborn kobolds - these buggers could breathe underwater and had +10 swim with auto take 10's on the skill. Aquatic ambush anyone?
Black Spew kobolds - kobold sorcerers with an acid breath weapon
Get creative with feat/power combos and add different aspects into these vile critters. Imagine for example of remaking a Mite as a Kobold; a minor annoyance but it has a decent Fear effect for low level parties - modeled after the Fear aura of their patron dragon.
I'm putting together a homebrew, and want lots of kobolds.
I've modified the Dungeon adventure "Devil in a Box," Darkmoon Vale (Hollow's Last Hope, Crown & Revenge of the Kobold King), and the Pathfinder Society Sewer Dragons. For additional source material, I have "A Touch of Evil: Kobolds."
Is there any other great stuff on kobolds you recommend?
Elites with character levels in Dragon Diciple or Sorcerer's with the Dragon bloodline would seem to be no-brainers. I remember a particularly comic battle where a kobold henchman had killed a mage in his sleep and taken over the tribe as the 'new mage'. He had glasses of Read Magic strapped to his head and read random spells off of scrolls prepared by the mage. It made for chaos and comic relief at once.
Don't forget the opportunistic nature of kobolds and the fact that they like to use traps in a variety of ways. There's nothing better than a mid-level party looking at each other saying 'we're getting our buts kicked by kobolds?!?!'
Since Kobolds tend to be Lawful, I made a special Temple of Lawful Evil and Lawful Neutral Kobold- Monks, Monk/Fighters, Monk/Rogues and Monk/Rangers and gave the higher level ones levels of Assassin. These were the special groups that went out and fixed certain problems...
You can even have Clerics who become Assassins...
I remember a particularly comic battle where a kobold henchman had killed a mage in his sleep and taken over the tribe as the 'new mage'. He had glasses of Read Magic strapped to his head and read random spells off of scrolls prepared by the mage. It made for chaos and comic relief at once.
Love it! I'm definitely want to exploit the comic relief angle!
Don't forget the opportunistic nature of kobolds and the fact that they like to use traps in a variety of ways. There's nothing better than a mid-level party looking at each other saying 'we're getting our buts kicked by kobolds?!?!'
I was just re-reading Tucker's Kobolds......great input, thanks!
If you can get hold of a copy, I'd strongly recommend the 2nd edition boxed set Dragon Mountain. Those are just about the biggest, baddest kobolds I've ever seen. (Yes, there's a dragon in the mountain...along with 14 tribes of murderous kobolds.)
Thanks everyone for your input - I've also found some "Old School" inspirations from Dungeon Magazine - if you can find the old copies, and are interested in koboldology:
Dungeon 41: A Way With Words - includes kobolds and a stolen book of poetry
Dungeon 37: Ever-changing Fortunes has a Kobold helping out some dwarves, and actually includes a mine - most of my Kobold adventures don't have mines...
Dungeon 39: Below Vulture Point - includes an urd (winged Kobold from 2nd edition), some kobolds, and some giant vultures
And my favorite: Dungeon 77 - Visiting Tylwyth. With a love-sick "hedgewitch" and her Kobold minions, what's not to love?
I love the older adventures for inspiration, but some conversion required!
On the flip side, "Ecology of the Kobold" in Dragon #332 couldn't hurt.
Then Dragon 332 is on my list, and I'm snooping around for Zobeck as well!
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There's a LOT of Zobeck material to choose from, spread out in stand-alone products and articles in Kobold Quarterly, all of which is available on the store here AFAIK.
This is probably the most centralized source of info for ready-use with PFRPG though. I'm not sure how kobold-heavy that particular book is though.
I'll let you know - it's on my list!
If you can get hold of a copy, I'd strongly recommend the 2nd edition boxed set Dragon Mountain. Those are just about the biggest, baddest kobolds I've ever seen. (Yes, there's a dragon in the mountain...along with 14 tribes of murderous kobolds.)
Wow! First of all, I'm surprised I was able to find a copy. Second, what great source material! I've just read over Clan Dreadnaught and Strike Force Zedd - pure Kobold gold! Thanks for the suggestion!
You might be interested in Kobolds of the Fallen Halls, but it is also contained in the Tribes I anthology. Both PDFs are available at Paizo.
In my shopping cart! Thanks!