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I want to write a new Kobold article for Amia wiki, the one we have there isnt in depth enough considering Kobold is a player race. I have a "Races of the Dragon" sourcebook on hand as well as the old ADnD Draconomicon.
Does anyone have any suggestions or requests they would like to see in my submital?

monster manual is your friend aswell

That fact that kobolds aren't cuddly little dogmen, dangit.

But yeah, sounds like you have good sources. Societal information would be a big help.

Read This post, and you'll be amazed!

As far as I am aware, Races of the Dragon overrules other Realms stuff and so is the main source for all things kobold. It's also one of those rare cases where the updated edition actually has as much (or more!) information than older edition stuff, so I believe it can safely be used entirely in place of 2nd Ed flavor.

(Usually, the 3rd Ed stuff seemed to fizzle out with non-mechanical details, leaving us needing to refer to older stuff to fill in the actual meat. But in this situation, I'm pretty sure Races of the Dragon covers everything and more, and is the final word, besides DMs, where contradictions or conflicts of information or the like appear.)

Also:

AmiaWiki wrote:

Copyright - Please do not just copy/paste large excerpt from a lore book. This is illegal and might get us into trouble. Instead try to rephrase the thing and just add the page you are writing off as a source. If you use images from books, be sure to cite the source.

Falling Spider wrote:

That fact that kobolds aren't cuddly little dogmen, dangit.

But yeah, sounds like you have good sources. Societal information would be a big help.

I plan on doing a lot of societal information, i find the view of most people on Kobolds are basiclly as subteranean mining goblins-like thingies who worship dragons and hate gnomes. But theres way more then that, which is what i want to stress.

LetumLux wrote:

As far as I am aware, Races of the Dragon overrules other Realms stuff and so is the main source for all things kobold. It's also one of those rare cases where the updated edition actually has as much (or more!) information than older edition stuff, so I believe it can safely be used entirely in place of 2nd Ed flavor.

(Usually, the 3rd Ed stuff seemed to fizzle out with non-mechanical details, leaving us needing to refer to older stuff to fill in the actual meat. But in this situation, I'm pretty sure Races of the Dragon covers everything and more, and is the final word, besides DMs, where contradictions or conflicts of information or the like appear.)

Also:

AmiaWiki wrote:

Copyright - Please do not just copy/paste large excerpt from a lore book. This is illegal and might get us into trouble. Instead try to rephrase the thing and just add the page you are writing off as a source. If you use images from books, be sure to cite the source.

I completely agree with that, races of the dragon is a treasure trove of information compared to most 3.5 stuff.
And ill be sure to be careful im not quoting the book.

As I understand it, Realms products overrule anything and everything in regards to other core sourcebooks.

Muspelkvist wrote:

Read This post, and you'll be amazed!

Thats all a direct quote from the book "races of the dragon"

Still a good source, though ... you could also provide a link to that thread.

Yurell wrote:

Still a good source, though ... you could also provide a link to that thread.

it is indeed a very good source, i plan on using it,

Well hurry up and do it. I'm bored - there's been no changes to Amiawiki for like 6 days!!!

lathandier wrote:

Well hurry up and do it. I'm bored - there's been no changes to Amiawiki for like 6 days!!!

ill get on it after this weekend, but im heading off to spend some time with my dad so your gonna have to wait till monday. hehehe, sorry

i heard dragon magazine did a really good article on kobolds and tactics recently

-edit- found it here, its 4E stuff but still might be useful idk

http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx ... /20080620a

i hate 4th edition, but this isnt bad
but anyway, im back, and ill get started on that article tommorrow, for now i just got back home and kinda wanna sit and do nothing

blunger wrote:

i hate 4th edition, but this isnt bad
but anyway, im back, and ill get started on that article tommorrow, for now i just got back home and kinda wanna sit and do nothing

yeah i like the little part about how they make most (not all) traps above four foot so they can just step on them and not worry lol

finally got to changing up the appearance section, and am getting on the other ones

i know its not much quite yet, but im getting on it, and soon enough there should be major changes

any thoughts on the small change ive made quite yet?

A few notes/nitpicks:

Quote:

black in colour.A Kobolds face

It should be 'black in colour. A Kobold's face'. I also find the 'space after period' is missing in a few other places. Similarly, when addressing adjectives, it's 'Kobold's', not 'Kobolds', 'Kobolds' refers to plural 'Kobold'.

Quote:

they can stretch out their legs and stand about a foot taller but tend not to because doing so is uncomfortable.

Given the picture in the monster manual, I'm not sure if they can do this. (Add citation?). I know they have reverse joint legs in the NWN model, but not in the MM.

Quote:

with a jaw that opens wide, wide enough in fact to hold a watermelon.

Fact check? I'm not sure if they can. (They are small). Also, on grammar, it should be 'with a jaw that opens wide enough to hold a watermelon.' If the above is true.

Thats all I see for now.

Kobra, the last two points are both mentioned in Races of the Dragon.

thanks letum lux, they are indeed mentioned,
ill fix up the grammar though

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