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turalisj 07-28-05, 02:00 AM	After centuries of being bullied by stronger races, the kobolds have evolved into a powerful psioic race capable of taking on even an illithid. With powerful minds and the ability of suprise, the Minbolds are set on taking vengence upon those that mocked and pushed them around. Racial Traits: -2 Str, +2 dex, -2 Con ,+4 Int, +4 Wis Minbolds are small and nimble, yet lack the hardiness of other races. They make up for that with supior intelligence and predatory cunning. Base speed of 30ft Small size Power reistance 5+class levels+intellignece modifier. Minbolds are naturally reistant to attacks from other psionic powers. 4 natural power points. Minbolds are deeply attuned to the psionic powers, and as such all Minbolds have some psionic ability. Power-like abilities: 1/day- Telekinetic Thrust, Expansion. Hive Mind- Minbolds are connected to each others thoughts and feelings, and attack like an army of ants. Thier hive mind makes it hard for anyone using powers from the telepathy discipline to detect them, and have a +4 will save against powers of that domain. Their hive mind is lim ited to 100ft. So if there is one minbold, then thier will be a swarm of them heading your way. Racial Skills: +2 on Craft(trapmaking), Proffesion(Miner) Favored class- Psion LA: +2. look good? imagine a swarm of them, rushing into a dueger kingdom. the dueger laugh at such a threat, but then stop when thier threat grows to twice their size and starts launching flasks of acid at them!! Hieght* Male: 3ft Female: 2ft 9inches Wieght* Male: 30lbs Female: 25lbs Adult Age: 20yrs Middle Age: 40yrs Old: 100yrs Venerable: 130yrs *= on average. Coming Soon!!!: Vri'ck, the master of the minbold swarms!
Kadasbrass 07-28-05, 02:45 AM	The little voice in my head just keeps saying "Minibold" when I saw this thread. I've played a psionic kobold named Zeekis before, had fun but the campaign sucked so ended up letting the little guy die off since i didn't intent on coming back... I tried to roleplay the idea that my character was the result of some illithids breeding program. Thought they made the perfect slaves, useful and resouceful with psionic abilities, weak and easy to control, breed fast and easy generate lots of. Joked when I died that "Somewhere out there, thousands of psionic Kobolds are being breed, this won't be the last..."
journeyman777 07-28-05, 02:46 AM	Give them a hive mind, PLEASE!
turalisj 07-28-05, 04:12 AM	ok, stat's are up. maybe i should give them the ability to control other's minds.. maybe the result of an obscure mindflayer breeding processe gone wrong. the one thing i wont do, is give them tentacles. makes for too many hentai jokes. :P
ragingmaro 07-28-05, 01:41 PM	A base speed of ten feet??? and they're tiny????
Wildonion 07-28-05, 01:50 PM	I would think small size and speed 30ft would be fine and still keep the race in the +2 catagory. Otherwise very nice! Long live the Kobold! :D
DarknessEternal 07-28-05, 01:51 PM	A psychic/super-Kobold makes only slighty more sense in the D&D world as a psychic/super-cow does in the real world. Kobolds are fodder. They are supposed to be fodder. If you're going to make up some non-fodder version, it is no longer a Kobold, so stop refering to it as such.
turalisj 07-28-05, 01:51 PM	don't forget, they have two very powerful abilities. but yeah, i think i'll make them bigger and faster.....
Wildonion 07-28-05, 01:59 PM	A psychic/super-Kobold makes only slighty more sense in the D&D world as a psychic/super-cow does in the real world. Kobolds are fodder. They are supposed to be fodder. If you're going to make up some non-fodder version, it is no longer a Kobold, so stop refering to it as such. You ever been through a well made Kobold lair? The things a death trap! and the 'fodder' sitting on the other side of a trap filled hall makes short work of anyone with there crossbows. To make a more powerful kobold doesn't mean it is no longer a kobold. That is like saying making a stronger human is no longer a human. Besides the gobbos get a psi user, we want one too!
ragingmaro 07-28-05, 04:40 PM	amen p.s Stupid goblins....
Manyfist 07-28-05, 05:07 PM	How far is this Hive mind, and how does it work v. non Minbolds? Limit it to 50', because that's a powerful ablity which makes them immune to alot of things, still they stand no chance against the Illithid. Edit: It's also too strong for LA:+2, Limit Psi-ablites to 1/day or spread them out. Compare them to githyanki and Githzerai for LA:+2.
journeyman777 07-28-05, 09:54 PM	YES! :clap: Now all I need is a homebrew world where kobolds have attained dominance...my players will never laugh at a kobold again ;)
turalisj 07-30-05, 07:29 PM	i'll put up the stats for a 1st level warrior one. and anyone have an idea for a better name?
Verdaloth 07-30-05, 08:25 PM	VERY nice, but i have one beef...+2? id make it like 3 becuase they get really good stats and good abilities.
Kadasbrass 07-30-05, 08:27 PM	As for a new name, Psibold?
Megrim_Lord 07-30-05, 08:53 PM	INCREASE SIZE??!! that is insulting! if anything they should get size reductions (Reverse Expansion? or is there a Reduction power, I forget), not to mention better offensive powers, at least give them Energy Ray and Mind Thrust.
turalisj 07-30-05, 08:55 PM	VERY nice, but i have one beef...+2? id make it like 3 becuase they get really good stats and good abilities. but they have -2 constitution. so your average minbold (or psibold) is going to have 3hp.
mrurbanitesmiley 07-31-05, 02:00 AM	A psychic/super-Kobold makes only slighty more sense in the D&D world as a psychic/super-cow does in the real world. Kobolds are fodder. They are supposed to be fodder. If you're going to make up some non-fodder version, it is no longer a Kobold, so stop refering to it as such. No offense, but you are quite wrong. Let me illuminate you. First off, if psionics existed in the real world, I would fear the evolution of psi-cows. I mean, I assume that a majority of psionic energy comes from the subconscious part of the mind, and as cows aren't conscious at all, they have massive sections of subconscious to be manipulated. Ah. Evolution. That's the key word. Kobolds have a short lifespan, fast reproduction, and the weak don't survive for long. If evolution works in the D&D world like it does in meat space, then kobolds would evolve super fast, along with goblins and other fodder races. Second off, Kobolds are only fodder if the DM lets them be fodder. A world where kobolds are the clergy of the divine dragon gods is just as valid as any other campaign. Third, you obviously don't know the innate power of a name. Calling them kobolds when they obviously aren't manipulates the perception of the audience. If I created a world where the inquisitors/interrigators/mass murderers of an evil government were called Saints, that adjusts the perceptions of the audience. In the end, I assume he chose to relate his breed of minbolds to kobolds because he wants to examine and possibly redefine what his players think when they hear the word 'kobold', and he is perfectly in his right to do that. You deny him the ability to use words, when words aren't yours to give. Fourth, I once made a people called dwarves that were completely unlike Core Dwarves. They were roughly man-sized, although a bit shorter. They lived in constant fear of undead, lived in clay and mud houses on a great plain, weren't particularly good smiths, had an elaborate system of name-magic to protect themselves from undead, and worshipped The Dweller on the Threshold, and would never willingly destroy a door or pick a lock. Are they dwarves? Yes. Because I chose to call them dwarves. Sorry, but people dissing my kobold buddies, and a persons right to free expression, kinda angers me.
turalisj 08-02-05, 07:10 PM	actually, i just wanted to see what would happen in a psionics heavy world where kobolds evolved in. but yeah, the minbolds are to the kobolds like homosuperior are to homosapiens. thaey are a more powerful offshoot that can easily threaten major races such as the dwarves. (a :cookie to anyone who knows what universe homosuperoir are from)
Manyfist 08-02-05, 07:41 PM	actually, i just wanted to see what would happen in a psionics heavy world where kobolds evolved in. but yeah, the minbolds are to the kobolds like homosuperior are to homosapiens. thaey are a more powerful offshoot that can easily threaten major races such as the dwarves. (a :cookie to anyone who knows what universe homosuperoir are from) That's sad that you're ripping off of X-men like that. :D It's alright, I am going to make a psionic frog like race that Illithids fear. :D You thought the evoloution of the illithid is werid, wait intill I reveal what happens when a Illithid tadapole doesn't get a host, or turns into a neothelid. :evillaugh
turalisj 08-02-05, 08:20 PM	who's ripping it off? i was using it as an example. and i'm already working on a psionic kou-toa. :P fodder races end up becoming the most powerful things in existence in the long run. that's because they have yet to reach thier peak of power. (tosses a :cookie: at manyfist)
Manyfist 08-02-05, 08:24 PM	who's ripping it off? i was using it as an example. and i'm already working on a psionic kou-toa. :P fodder races end up becoming the most powerful things in existence in the long run. that's because they have yet to reach thier peak of power. (tosses a :cookie: at manyfist) Homosuperior... lol. We could make every monster Psionic! :evillaugh, I already got the Core races, except for Dwarves... My campaign doesn't use Dwarves, they're exctinct! :evillaugh
turalisj 08-02-05, 08:53 PM	realy? could you pm them to me? my campaign is psionics heavy and takes place in a post-apocolyptic future where kobolds have enslaved almost every race. and no, i'm not making it up.
Manyfist 08-02-05, 08:56 PM	realy? could you pm them to me? my campaign is psionics heavy and takes place in a post-apocolyptic future where kobolds have enslaved almost every race. and no, i'm not making it up. Check my Siggy, I got all the Core races in their. They all have psionic favorite classes.
GFC_Seracule 08-04-05, 02:33 PM	How did you not give a charisma bonus :confused: ? They are the dragon descended! At least give them a +2!
Manyfist 08-04-05, 02:34 PM	How did you not give a charisma bonus :confused: ? They are the dragon descended! At least give them a +2! Bah, they're still cowardly. No matter what.
mrurbanitesmiley 08-04-05, 05:03 PM	Cowardice has nothing to do with charisma. Plus, I don't think the average kobold is cowardly, just really realistic. You'd run too if you could get in a fight with a rat and lose.
Von Crown 08-14-05, 10:49 PM	Hah... lose to a rat. Also pertaining to this, I've actually been working on a race of genetically engineered superkobolds that are about as large and strong as an ogre...
turalisj 08-14-05, 11:24 PM	How did you not give a charisma bonus :confused: ? They are the dragon descended! At least give them a +2! because the minbolds are typically shrewd. they attack creatures that they deem unworthy to exist (such as drow, dwarves, and anyone else that inhabits an underground region). they attack quickly and leave mutilated bodies in thier wake. and they carry the skulls of those they killed. (so imagine if one brought down a giant)
turalisj 03-16-06, 04:27 PM	I updated the minbolds some, listing the ages, hieght, and wieght. Next I'll work on physical description. And yes, they live for a while. More time to plot and adapt.
Need_A_Life 03-30-06, 01:10 PM	*BUMP!* Don't let the Minbold become extinct!
turalisj 04-11-06, 10:27 PM	Bump. Anything else? Otherwise, they seem ready to go...
sir_dwar 05-20-06, 01:02 PM	Cool... 'nuff said
RPGfan 07-18-06, 10:52 AM	Psionic Kobolds? Psychic cows? Ye speak in tongues! But seriously, a great idea. Whoa. I just said the word seriously.
turalisj 07-18-06, 03:17 PM	It's great to see everyone loves them! Praise is appreciated, but if you have any constructive criticism, I'll take it. Currently, they are going to be play tested in several diffrent games. One is a steampunk setting, one is a homebrew that I co-created (shard worlds) and the third is one run by people from these very boards. Hopefully any bugs in the concept will become apparent early on...
warforged_assasin 10-26-06, 11:52 PM	:evillaugh i'm currently working on beefy human sized kobolds that are larger cousins of the bolds that are crossed with elementals :evillaugh
Archangel62 10-27-06, 08:24 AM	A psychic/super-Kobold makes only slighty more sense in the D&D world as a psychic/super-cow does in the real world. Kobolds are fodder. They are supposed to be fodder. If you're going to make up some non-fodder version, it is no longer a Kobold, so stop refering to it as such. Apparently you've never faced tuckers kobolds. Or for that matter only faced them in non-built areas. The kobolds are a great example of being quite weak in an open plane, but in their element they can be deadly. They have to be to keep from getting entirely wiped out.
turalisj 02-15-07, 07:50 PM	Bump!
chimp man 02-15-07, 08:49 PM	When I first saw this I thought of mini me come to think of it a mini me kobold would be rather small. But a psychic kobold would be an interesting addition to the kobold hoards, but if kobolds can evolve into psychicly gifted creature whats to say the could not evolve into ogre sized creatures. With the minbolds increased intelagence who could say if maby some greatly gifted minbold could notunite all kobolds under one banner. Or if a great napoleon minbold would train all kobolds in the art of war. Just maby a great minbold would develop a serum that could alter a kobolds size to that of a humans or a great diplomat one that could unite all fodder races and foes of the humans into one great coalition of races. Then one great minbold to wage a war against humans driving them to a slave race and the rest to etch out a miserable existance living in fear of the great kobold overlords. Then the kobolds will prosper without the fear of random adventurers. But just mayby. (Or maby im just rambling :P)
turalisj 02-15-07, 09:08 PM	Well, I'm working on an incarnum-kobold and a super-soldier kobold. So it it possible.
blue14mist 03-03-07, 12:09 PM	Well, I'm working on an incarnum-kobold and a super-soldier kobold. So it it possible. that seems interesting. would yoiu mind giving me the stats when there ready?:coolcthul
turalisj 03-06-07, 08:51 AM	Sure. The super-bold is pretty much done. Have to work on the carnum-bold (I'm thinking a more feral version of the kobold myself)
baby_kamikaize_kobold 04-04-07, 07:33 PM	On the races' age. i don't think you should change it. after all the shorter lived something is the more evolution it can go througgh so that might make a little more sense for hyper evolved kobold goodness. otherwise great job Kobolds are the true master race
turalisj 04-04-07, 07:45 PM	I looked at races of the dragon, and the kobold reaches middle age at 60yrs, so I'm not going to change it.
NitrosDragon 07-09-07, 02:18 PM	:bump: Kobolds FOREVER! :D
Kobold_Avenger 07-09-07, 03:59 PM	Well, I'm working on an incarnum-kobold and a super-soldier kobold. So it it possible. Yes! The Kobolds now get their Halo Spartans/ WH40K Space Marines!!
turalisj 07-09-07, 05:05 PM	Yup. Don't ask when that will happen though.. >.>'
Kesthol 07-19-07, 07:35 PM	No offense, but you are quite wrong. Let me illuminate you. ... Sorry, but people dissing my kobold buddies, and a persons right to free expression, kinda angers me. :clap: I applaud your clear application of common sense. I would go so far as to say that you are proficient in English (a title reserved for very few on this board, mind you), ergo, I award you: :teach: (yeah, so it's the teaching smiley. Not everyone likes :cookie:s :pbbbtt:).
Nyt 03-15-08, 03:21 AM	.....homosuperior are to homosapiens.... (a :cookie to anyone who knows what universe homosuperoir are from) I can tell you exactly, they are from yours and mine. May i have that cookie?? :)