It is a fairly childish way of view. they lived their whole life in Swampmuck and was even taken care of by a gnome. The thing is, they doesn't connect themselves to anything as race or even gender, hard to when you can literally change gender from one day to the next. As for race, they are few and far between and even though they originate from goblins, they biologically different from them. As far as they're concerned, "race" is just another level of uniqueness.

I'd like to know if we use the Xanathar's Guide to Everything rules for Downtime? If you own the book the stuff I'm referring to is on pages 125 to 134 in the 2^nd chapter for Dungeon Master's Tools.

@Necroes Can I steal your template?? I love the way you have it set up!

Go for it.

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I thought it was the gnomes that kobold had a mutual restraining order with.

Kobolds have an extreme hatred of gnomes because the gnome god, if I recall correctly, pulled a 'prank' on the earliest kobold society that took them from having the largest fortified civilization in the world, to where they are now.

As a rule, the majority of races look down on kobolds because they're essentially raccoons. They breed like rodents, they live in squalor, and they steal other people's trash because their culture teaches them that that's okay. For most races, the main benefit of having kobolds around is that they tend to fix random objects/tunnels/paths/buildings, often using tools made from repurposed refuse.
The problem between kobolds and dwarves is that dwarves are very particular about ownership, and will often repurpose their own refuse. So, stealing it isn't okay. More over, dwarves rarely need anything fixed, because they like to fix things themselves. When kobolds try and fix their stuff, it's more of a nuisance than useful, because they don't build up to dwarven standards.
Also, while most species are too big to fit into kobold tunnels, dwarves can fit into the bigger ones and it's often hard to tell the difference between an old, deserted kobold tunnel, and a fresh one. Old or new, they often have a great deal of traps in them, which are hazardous to dwarves mining those tunnels.

So, while most races will generally ignore kobolds until they make themselves an active nuisance, dwarves view them as more like a rat infestation. None of the goodly races actually see them, on a grand scale, as anything more than a monstrous race. So dwarves basically get a free pass to actively commit genocide against the little lizard-lings, and will do so whenever they find them in/on/near their homes. Thus, standard practice for dwarves is to kill kobolds whenever they see them.

Luckily, Einkil is not a normal dwarf. He's very much a hippy, by dwarf standards, and is happy to live and let live. However, he is still a dwarf, raised by dwarves with dwarven morals and ideals, and would not hesitate to kill what to him is essentially a vermin if it actively caused him problems.

@Necroes Oh...

So bottom line, don't piss off the dwarf and we're all good!

@Dark Cloud You think that's bad; Goblins of pretty much every walk of life have all the same negative connotations, with none of the positive ones, and are often put up there with things like ghouls and zombies in terms of 'things to kill asap.'

The memes that are generated by popular D&D culture about these races dramatically differ from the actual lore about them. While a lot of DMs like to portray them as loveable, goofy idiots that get a bad rap, in all the literature they're basically seen as a nuisance at best, and an active plague on goodly society at worst.

There's a reason that killing them wholesale isn't seen as a crime, and is often rewarded by nearby civilizations.

Good thing there's no goblins *gives a nervous laugh* >~> <~< >~>

I'd like to know if we use the Xanathar's Guide to Everything rules for Downtime? If you own the book the stuff I'm referring to is on pages 125 to 134 in the 2^nd chapter for Dungeon Master's Tools.

@Dark Cloud I hadn't really thought about it to be honest & when I do use downtime in my games I have a homebrew system. That isn't to say we can't use it, but I'd like to understand better how you'd like it incorporated if I did decide to include it. What would you like to do with downtime?

@Mae I just think it is an extremely useful system. Have you seen the book?

@Dark Cloud You think that's bad; Goblins of pretty much every walk of life have all the same negative connotations, with none of the positive ones, and are often put up there with things like ghouls and zombies in terms of 'things to kill asap.'

The memes that are generated by popular D&D culture about these races dramatically differ from the actual lore about them. While a lot of DMs like to portray them as loveable, goofy idiots that get a bad rap, in all the literature they're basically seen as a nuisance at best, and an active plague on goodly society at worst.

There's a reason that killing them wholesale isn't seen as a crime, and is often rewarded by nearby civilizations.

I like Pathfinder Goblins better than D&D Goblins.

If I didn't have Deedra who I love dearly, I'd request to make a character based off of a homered book I helped supported on KS. Adds arcane tattoos to the game including a new magic class, feeling tattooist. Of course we'd be commoners, so they'd simply be a tattooist in occupation, but still would have been cool.

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@Dark Cloud I hadn't really thought about it to be honest & when I do use downtime in my games I have a homebrew system. That isn't to say we can't use it, but I'd like to understand better how you'd like it incorporated if I did decide to include it. What would you like to do with downtime?

So in Xanathar's Guide there are tables that give randomized results for crafting, carousing and research.

Check out my sheet, I finally found a picture I liked.

@Mae How possible would it be to get a winged cat as a pet? You know so my character picture will make sense and totally not because it would be freaking awesome.

@Dark Cloud yeah I own a copy. To clarify, I'm asking if you're planning to do something specific with it or if you have something in mind for your character you'd like to explore, as I haven't planned in any downtime and wasn't really planning to explore it. But if you had something in mind you wanted to do that is thematic for your character then it's something I would consider.

@Mae How possible would it be to get a winged cat as a pet? You know so my character picture will make sense and totally not because it would be freaking awesome.

that's totally possible ;D if you guys do some of the quests that lead into the woods... unless you wanted to buy it in town with quest money.

Also can you link me the pic? it's small on the CS

Cute AF

Is that better?