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[scriver]

There's a creature called a Cambion which is basically a tiefling, but born in the Abyss.

*Dnd lore eye twitch*

[Jimmy]

Yeah, they took a few liberties with the lore. And if you're gonna get twitchy over monster reskins, I got one word for you:

Kobolds.

[scriver]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

Actually what are you referring to about them?

[Jimmy]

Kobolds

Basically, they started off as dog-faced goblinoids, then gradually morphed into the reptilian humanoids we all know and love (to kill) today.

[Mephisto]

Missed it by that much. Damn me and my need to dig out my AD&D monster manual.

Looks like they go more dog-like in 5e. Neat.

[scriver]

Well yeah, I know about that change, but that happened between 2nd and 3rd edition - I remember Baldur's Gate, mostly based on 2nd Ed, having dog kobolds, and then NwN having the lizard/dragon-wannabe ones, which was through which I got to know DnD, so I'm completely fine with that change.

I thought you meant Pathfinder had changed kobolds in some other way (which would be ABSOLUTE HERESY, of course).

[Jimmy]

Yeah, I figure if WotC can pull a klingon forehead switch on their own creatures, Paizo can be forgiven for redacting Cambion lore from Hell to the Abyss.

[IcyTea31]

5th Edition has actually made kobolds more dog-like, for a change. Look at the noses and the shapes of the heads and feet:

Spoiler: Image (click to show/hide)

[scriver]

Yeah, I figure if WotC can pull a klingon forehead switch on their own creatures, Paizo can be forgiven for redacting Cambion lore from Hell to the Abyss.

What? No, that's completely insignificant to me, the twitch was about cambions being "basically a tiefling"

[Jimmy]

My favorite quote of that night: When the Cambion's talking to the female Aasimar cleric.

"Yeah, I got a little demon in me. You want a little demon in you?"

[MetalSlimeHunt]

If they make it through, the twist ought to come when they're suddenly attacked by the eighth Son of Sin, Despair.

[scriver]

If they make it through, the twist ought to come when they're suddenly attacked by the eighth Son of Sin, DespairHope.

[Egan_BW]

I like to think of kobolds like fuzzy lizards, like the earliest proto-mammals.

[wierd]

....

**Imagines them like gremlins that taint iron in iron mines, with shiny blue eyes.

Then again, I understand the folklore they came from.

[Egan_BW]

Eh, so far as I can tell, Kobolds have nothing to do with Kobolds other than name.