What kind of kobolds do you prefer?

Dorcus

Kamigoroshi

Urd

Because flying kobolds with short ivory horns, red-rimmed eyes, flattened noses, batlike wings, mottled yellow to brick-red scales and no connection to dragons whatsoever are just lovely.

booinyoureyes

I prefer dead, charred Kobolds after a lovely Fireball barbecue.

Buttercheese

There is only one correct answer to this:

brus

Vampire-kobolds all the way
Properties:

1. Blood-sucking and viscious attack
   
2. more agile
   
3. vampire-kobold group can dodge a fireball
   

iKrivetko

Deekin

OlvynChuru

My modded Baldur's Gate 1 is full of super kobolds! Some of them come at you with exceptionally accurate short swords and will give you a THAC0 penalty of 20 with each hit. Others are shielded by Minor Globe of Invulnerability and will send Lightning Bolts at you on sight. However, my favorite super kobold is the one that summons a copy of himself each time he hits you (and the copies can summon other copies). Furthermore, the kobold and all the copies wield Arrows of Detonation, so they can hit multiple targets with each attack!

Diogenes42

I like this friendly fellow.

BGLover

To me, Kobolds will always be the dog-like creatures I encountered and fought in the caves underneath the 'Horror on the Hill'.

semiticgoddess

The ones without fire arrows.

Chnapy

Because there's no "I love them all" option.
Also, Pun-Pun. Gotta love Pun-Pun.

I've got a particular fondness for kobolds who can mix a bit of every option. Tucker's kobold are supposed to be weak but their defining element is rather how nasty they fight, which dragon wannabes can totally do. Also, that whole mine-dwelling bit fits well enough with the concept of weak social dragons : what they can't get by pillaging entire cities, they get by killing/enslaving miners or even outright mining it themselves.

I've been meaning to play that Kari the (Half-)Kobold mod but i can't run my old bg2 install.

SmilingSword

Buttercheese said:

There is only one correct answer to this:

Nac Mac Feegle are not Kobolds. They are a type of Pixie. Just don't ever say that to one, if you value having all your teeth in your mouth.

Diogenes42

Pictsies*

It is a pune, or play on words.

Skatan

I generally dislike when an entire race are made into a generic mold, so I like the kind of kobolds Deekin represent. Meaning kobolds, just like other races, are different from eachother and can be fighters, bards, mages etc.

Also, I have no idea what "tucker's" kobolds are like. Never heard of it before.

Permidion_Stark

I voted for the yipping kind you find In BG1. That cut-scene when they sneak up on the farm where the little girl is going out to play always sent chills through me.

However, I loved Deekin in NWN. He was an absolute hoot.

You can see the original BG1 Kobold scene here at 4.17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIVsIEt4u5g

Buttercheese

@SmilingSword Where I come from, pixies are things like tinkerbell :I

@Diogenes42 I see what you did there :P

Chnapy

Buttercheese said:

@SmilingSword Where I come from, pixies are things like tinkerbell :I

I think pixies and fairies and the like are this most everywhere nowadays. There roots are darker though, or at least it's the case in every folklore about which I know some things (french and british which is, I admit, not a lot). Pixies and fairies and kobolds and trolls and goblins and leprechauns and korrigans and what have you, they all tend to have had this in common : they were jerks. Some where mostly benevolent jerk while other were outright bad but I've yet to read a folk's tale about nice fantasy creatures, especially when they're fun-sized.

And they've all changed a lot. They sort of had to, too, because their old depictions were often vague and you'd have had a hard time finding two agreeing on about anything, really. So recent, mass media got hold of one, settled for one depiction (rearranged to fit in modern tales) and that revised version got copied all over.

Oudyn

Kobolds in the games I DM are the wannabe dragon sorcerers of modern D&D, but also have shades of Tucker. They're clever, and good at traps, tricks and geurilla warfare. Essentially, think fanatical terrorist mini-lizards, and you've more or less got it.

GenderNihilismGirdle

I'm a big fan of kobolds claiming draconic heritage played silly in games where it's silly, but I also love when a good role player can avoid playing it for jokes and do a dead serious take on "inheritor of ancient power" (with a build to back it up so no one's laughing for long!), as a DM I'd say the latter has always been infinitely more rewarding to see done well.

moody_mage

Pun-Pun.

http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Pun-Pun_(3.5e_Optimized_Character_Build)

CoM_Solaufein

Ones that are dead.