Race: Kobold

The Kobold is the first race I have broken down into racial variants (I don't want to get too carried away with this, but it was a good opportunity to cater for the favoured class presented in the original material, and provide one of the new classes as a varaint class).

Kobold (Cavern Kobold)
Cavern Kobold characters possess the following racial traits:
–4 Strength, +2 Dexterity, –2 Constitution.
A kobold’s base land speed is 30 feet.
Darkvision out to 60 feet.
Light Sensitivity: Kobolds are dazzled in bright sunlight or within the radius of a daylight spell.
Racial Skills: A kobold character has a +2 racial bonus on Craft (trapmaking), Profession (miner), and Search checks.
+1 natural armor bonus.
Favored Class: Artificer.
Level adjustment +0.
Small size (+1 bonus to Armor Class, +1 bonus on attack rolls, +4 bonus on Hide checks, –4 penalty on grapple checks, lifting and carrying limits 3/4 those of Medium characters).


Kobolds are short, reptilian humanoids with cowardly and sadistic tendencies. A kobold’s scaly skin ranges from dark rusty brown to a rusty black color. It has glowing red eyes. Its tail is nonprehensile. Kobolds wear ragged clothing, favoring red and orange. A kobold is 2 to 2-1/2 feet tall and weighs 35 to 45 pounds.

Kobolds like to attack with overwhelming odds—at least two to one—or trickery; should the odds fall below this threshold, they usually flee. They begin a fight by firing/throwing missiles, closing only when they can see that their foes have been weakened. Whenever they can, kobolds set up ambushes near trapped areas.

Source: D&D System Reference Document / Monster Manual, WotC
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=d20/article/srd35

Note
Under the standard rules the favoured class for kobolds is Sorceror, I have changed it to Artificer to reflect the fact that Kobolds have had the greatest racial success in pludering dwarven strongholds. Note however, that a summoner variant is available (see below).


Kobold (Summoned Kobold)
Summoned Kobold characters possess the same racial traits as Cavern kobolds with the following differences:
Racial Skills: A kobold character has a +2 racial bonus on Athletics and Listen checks.
Favored Class: Sorceror.

Summoned Kobolds appear very similar to cavern Kobolds, except their skin color ranges from medium blue to dark purple and their eyes are normally an orange color.

Summoned Kobolds have been appearing over the last year or so from summon monsters spells that have for some reason gone awry, generally appearing in small sized groups of 2-5 when summoned. They will do the casters bidding for the duration of the spell, but they remain in this plane of existence when the spell ends and will typically try to flee to safety at that time. A lot of casters are now summoning them deliberately if they suit the caster's current need.