Yeah. I've never really been sure what a Kobold was. My friend had an older monster manual that showed it as a chubby beady eyed goblin, while mine had a little rat man, and then I get back into the game a few decades later, and kobolds are now little dragons.

Should've just named the new ones drakobolds

Found a really good source including a picture of the first edition. It looks like that they were mentioned indeed in the 2nd edition to be more dog like in a sense of voice "yappin like a dog" and smelling like damp dog. Their visuals however were not really dog like. So I assume it was maybe both a mistranlation and an over interpretation of some texts from 2nd edition or just pure free choice from the author of this anime. https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2022/01/dd-monster-spotlight-kobolds.html

Fahhhhk, thank you.

I swear I remembered dog people from 2nd edition and was super confused when I started playing DDO and they were some kind of dragonkin. Then people who started with 3rd were telling me kobolds had always been lizards.

Somewhere my old 2nd edition books are still around in a box, but damned if I know where.

Could have brought viashino into D&D. They were introduced in MTG in 1998 so could have been added for 3rd edition. I kinda wish they had pulled more of magic's original species into D&D earlier, there are some cool ones.

My only real experience with them is from Pool of Radiance, the first “gold box” CRPG. They were pretty dog-like in that.

I hate to ask: can you update the fandom with your research?

https://delicious-in-dungeon.fandom.com/wiki/Kobolds

I don't know enough about this topic and Im really enjoying learning all of this!

Anyone with an original copy of the western version should be able to easily confirm this, no?

The most reliable source there is

It smelled fishy when I posted it but honestly, I'm dumb as a doorknob to dig deeper and didn't know how to start this convo on fantasy races.

Pretty sure they are germanic in origin, but I would have to double check.

Originally, in the middle ages miners experienced toxic gasses and other weird effects while mining iron, such as ore exploding when smelting. They attributed some of the problems to mischievous creatures they would call Kobolds hiding in the mines.

It was eventually discovered that these problems were caused by another whole element creating impurities in the ore, when separated and identified, it came to be known as Cobalt.

Isn't Kobold basically just German for goblins and gremlins and the like?

American, but I also think of them as like blue, spiky icy imps. I'm not sure where I got it, but seems like a Nintendo era RPG, maybe Final Fantasy

Kobolds in Final Fantasy 14 are exactly as you described here. Small and gnome like.

In Germanic folklore, kobolds just look like small people that are often also depicted as being green and having large ears. They are spirits of the home and sometimes benevolent and sometimes mischievous.

Yeah I'd never seen Kobolds as lizard folk until I played Abennar.

I'm still not sure what the fuck they were supposed to be in WoW, I just know you no take candle.

Vindictus?

That's where my mind goes when I think of kobold.

Like, the halfling of Orcs. And yes to poison attacks for some reason!

Huh, I forgot they called that little guy a kobold in Quest for Glory. I always went in there to steal his shrooms, but only discovered decades later he had an invisible chest in there too that can be revealed with detect magic.

Fun to see someone mention the game out in the wild.

I don’t know your grandma’s boyfriends but she sounds pretty wild

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons - one of the early editions of the book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editions_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons#Advanced_Dungeons_%26_Dragons