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#1 Dejavu357 Aug 05, 2015 19:30:04	I had been playing a Halfling Rogue (assassin) in a campaign for a while. Our characters are all about 5th - 6th level. The DM is very slow handing out XP (I am ok with that)    Any way 2 sessions ago My rogue is killed. That is when I had an Idea!   In our sessions we have had a half starved1 armed Kobold as a reoccurring character. He was somewhat helpful after we saved his family from a goblin hoard.    Long story short I asked if I could play "Larp" (that is his name). Everyone thought it could be fun. Here is how we rolled him.   We took the stats / traits from the monster manual. I picked a class/background and leveled him up to level 5. I kept his level 1 HP as the Kobolds starting HP (maxed out like any player) I think it was 2D6 -2. Then for the levels afterword’s I took the rogues HP rolls. For a background I picked outlander. For Class I went Arcane Trickster, I liked the idea of the mage hand making up for his lost left hand. For one of his cantrips I picked the illusion disguise self spell (sorry cant remember the name) so I can go in to towns and not be killed on sight,    What I found is that sunlight sensitivity is a bear but that pack tactics was awesome. at night my Kobold has advantage on attacks that my ally’s are near by which means lots of bonus damage for a rogue. But the disadvantage in the sun kind of takes all that away. I got so I hated the sun.    in the end it was very fun. The character was pretty underpowered overall but it was fun and very flavorful. The 7 strength was pretty bad but not a huge deal with finesse weapons. With this character I was able to go in to a dragon’s home and talk to the other Kobolds a few times as long as I looked like I was mining with the other Kobolds. Also being small and still 30 speed is pretty nice.    I made his weight 10 (cause he is very small and very thin) and my idea was to be able to carry myself with my mage hand. I have not tried it yet so I don’t know if the DM will allow it. The DM did raise an eyebrow when he saw how light I was and said that is really skinny and short. The DM made him small and thin when we first met him but he did not say how small and thin.
#2 Keaerin Aug 05, 2015 21:11:59	Kobolds are the best period. Being the underdog is what I fell in love with them in the first place. In 3.0/3.5 kobolds had many disadvantages (-4 str, -2 con, small size) and thriving despite that was incredibly fun. Can't wait for a real 5th write up for them.