if you cut a kobold what color....


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does it bleed and what color is the meat of its flesh? i ask because i .... well it need to know what it looks like under those scales i am planing on taking the disadvantage

Albinism

You lack pigmentation in your skin, giving you a distinctively pale appearance. Your skin is very sensitive to sunlight.

Detriment: You must make a Fortitude saving throw for every hour that your skin is exposed to direct sunlight. The DC is 15 +1 for every hour that you’ve been exposed. A failure causes 1d4 hit points of sunburn damage.

making its scales semi-translucent


Probably pinkish like chicken.


....do humans bleed the colors from that creepy "FLESH" crayon box?

No, your blood is somethign completely separate from your skin/hide color.

Human blood is not colored red because of pigmentation, it is colored that way because blood basically runs off of rust (ie- red blood cells have iron that it uses to attract oxygen).

Some animals have different colored blood, but the general principle applies- your blood is not trying to be do the same thing as pigmentation (which either acts as camoflauge or as a weird mating thing). Your blood is supposed to stay inside of your body, and the only reason it has a color is incidental to the processes adn chemicals it sues to do its job.

The blood typically doesn't get too much of a different color. Pigmentation is a simple, nonfatal defect. If something changes the color of the blood, it means it is doing something COMPLETELY different from normal, which can mean it is not doing that whole 'life' thing.

Of course, as a constant addendum to biology is fantasy settings- LOL MAGIC. The laws of physics and chemistry only have so much sway here. So if you REALLY want to bleed bleach, then sure, go ahead. But it has nothing to do with normal albinoism as far as I am aware.


Google "albinism in lizards" if you want a visual. Whitish pink with red eyes.


Albinism doesn't affect blood colour, which determines colour of 'meat'.

I can't explain why, but I always thought Kobolds would bleed green.

*shrugs*


Everyone knows that kobolds bleed XP.


Umbral Reaver wrote:
Everyone knows that kobolds bleed XP.

Not much of it.

In fact, they are mostly hollow. That is why they have the -4 str and -2 con.


i ment the color of the blood and the color of their flesh and i was thinking a white-ish pink from the pictures i have googled but kobold blood is a little harder to google.


zainale wrote:
i ment the color of the blood and the color of their flesh and i was thinking a white-ish pink from the pictures i have googled but kobold blood is a little harder to google.

Most life on earth has reddish blood due to using iron as the oxygen binding agent in blood...

The color only changes if their physiology uses a different metal, like green blood (copper?)

Assuming draconic origins, you could do whatever you want. Silver? Black?

Probably red though.


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Hemoglobin is a red pigment and gives the blood a red color. Annelids (segmented worms) have either a green pigment, chlorocruorin, or a red pigment, hemerythrin. Some crustaceans (invertebrates with jointed bodies, such as crabs and shrimps) have a blue pigment, hemocyanin, in their blood.

Depending on the specific biology of a creature, you could end up with very different blood colors. But it is always going to be related to the protein the binds with oxygen, and the color will be based upon which metal is binding with oxygen.

In hemoglobin the binding metal is iron, so you end up with red rust-colored blood. In hemocyanin the binding metal is copper, and for the oxidation state achieved it appears blue.

So their is no real answer to what color a kobolds blood is. It would depend heavily on very specific biological functions that I doubt anyone at Paizo cares enough to worry about. If you want to make something up, look up the colors associated with the oxidation state of different metals and choose whatever appeals to you.

Let me add though, pretty much every vertebrate on earth uses hemoglobin and thusly has red blood.

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By this point we can assume that there is no official source saying what color kobold blood is. We should then assume it's the default color of blood for a reptile, which is red.

Scarab Sages

If the character is not even made yet and you are already asking "what color will I bleed?" then you are planning to lose!

You should plan not to bleed at all. Be the Jesse Ventura of kobolds!


Do a google image search for albino alligator


Caineach wrote:
Do a google image search for albino alligator

I believe his question comes down to "If kobolds have blood a color other than red, what color do albinos look like?" The answer is that their skin would still be mostly white. The blood color would only show through in places like the eyes.


okay thanks

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