Kobold

The ground about a kobold lair is not to be trusted. There are pits in it and cords across it and little bells in the bushes; and the kobolds, who are no bigger than children, have spent every idle day of their lives adding to these.

They are rust-brown and scaly, with a short tail, and eyes that glow red in the dark of the mines and the overgrown woods where they live, ten or so to a pack. A kobold thinks it foolish to fight fair. If the pack is the larger it attacks; if not it is gone, and the stranger who gives chase learns about the cords. They hate nearly everyone, and the gnomes first. They eat roots and small game, and it is said that a prisoner is eaten too, now and then.

Details

• +2 dexterity, -1 strength, -2 charisma.
• +5 to trap disarming. +5% experience.
• As all orckin: speaks common and orcish.