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Talk:Kobold (speculation)
Personally think they should give them poison saves for living in swamps and sewers. Voice acted taunts\emotes would be awesome. Maybe a destruct construct for their affinity with wrecking the sewer and drains systems and add disable traps as a racial unlocked skill. These are the ones that build all the little nasty traps in the waterworks. Neouni (Contributions • Message) 16:35, February 21, 2013 (EST)
- Kobold like this! Maybe not kill all adventurers when Kobold take over city! Maybe keep you as pet Kobold worker (Contributions • Message) 02:58, February 22, 2013 (EST)
I find it odd that kobolds are considered lawful evil with their personality, I would personally consider them chaotic with something like that. Racial enhancements should be probably be aimed in the direction of sorcery with their native ability for magic and trap making\disabling for their mastery of mostly mechanical and some magical traps, although it would not be unreasonable with those 2 backgrounds to dabble a bit into Artificing Neouni (Contributions • Message) 08:05, February 22, 2013 (EST)
- They do have a fairly structured and hierarchical society. They only appear chaotic to outsiders as they play by their own rules.
→ Snake (Contributions • Message) 07:16, April 10, 2013 (EDT)
For the most part, DDO is built off of 3.5 from an original framework, and in 3.5, Kobolds have -4 Str, -2 Con, +2 Dex. The developers could stick with that as a starting point, and then just give them a really powerful racial tree. That would fit rather well, it would create weak first level characters that would catch up in power as they gain APs (as the named Kobolds are often quite a bit tougher), and have some fun abilities.
In regards to the bottom of the racial tree, Kobolds are known for being sorcerers (due to their draconic blood) and the Kobold Paragon class gave them a +2 bonus to charisma, so I think it would make sense for charisma to be one of the options. Since they start out weak, it would be nice to give them other options - such as dex/con/cha.