It's not a large leap of logic to believe that a kobold adventurer PC would be non-super-wimpy. Oh yeah! And none of the races should ever be able to be as good a wizard as elves, because elves grow older and are more magical.ĭ&D 5e (and 4e, and later 3e) abandoned the idea of races catering to one concept and only one concept because it's dumb to limit players' choices based on fluff, when anyone who is an adventurer is already unique and special. I mean, it's obvious that halflings shouldn't be able to be as strong as humans, right? And that humans should never ever be as strong as half-orcs, because the half-orcs are just better at lifting things. In 3.5, they had ties to dragons and various unique and powerful abilities, especially regarding magic, and in 4e, they got +con and +dex.īy that same logic, anyone playing a halfling should also feel underwhelming, because they're not as big as the normal races.
Why, though? In both editions where Kobolds have been playable, the stats for them implied that they were not the wimpiest race on the block. NPC and monsters are pretty much disposable whereas a PC will be used constantly. Remember PCs are used much more often than NPCs or monsters. The DMG is giving you the NPC version of the Kobold not the PC. If you agree to have a race in your game then it shouldn't be a trap option. You are punishing players mechanically based on fluff reasons and that isn't cool. Why shouldnt this very special kobold adventurer be on equal footing with the rest of their party? Why would she be brought along if he was just going to be a liability? Why the speciism? To play a Kobold it should feel underpowered, underwhelming.Ī kobold adventurer would be better than a human peasant, but not better or the same as an equivalently experienced human adventurer.That makes no sense.
AND the stats I gave, if you took the negs from DMG and the applied the point buy would actually be point equiv. My point is that a Kobold should NOT be the racial equivalent of any of the other races. Someone pointed out a named Kobold who had great Charisma and was level 8.
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