#dungeons and dragons kobold | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

voidgrease · 1 month

Text

Been designing kobold guards for my next dnd session, I hope u like these two. Quintessential guard vibes.

26 notes · View notes

spookykobold · 5 months

Text

Old kobold with rusty-looking scales. Except for the top of their head, which is kept shiny because their dragon keeps headpatting the rust away

#kobold #headpats #dungeons and dragons

4K notes · View notes

grumpygryphon · 7 months

Text

Kobolds sure are a handful…

I saw this image and knew I had to make a (badly drawn, sorry) kobold version of it

#kobold #ttrpg #dragon #dnd #dungeons and dragons #pathfinder #my art #fantasy

3K notes · View notes

thebeardlyben · 3 months

Text

Commissions of some little guys! Kane - kobold warlock Pine - kenku graviturgy wizard

#illustration #the beardly ben #digital art #fantasy art #dungeons and dragons #dnd #fantasy #dnd5e #dnd character #kenku #dnd kenku #kenku wizard #graviturgy wizard #kobold #kobold warlock #warlock #my art #dnd commissions #dnd art

1K notes · View notes

prokopetz · 1 day

Note

I'm asking you because I've seen people ask you similar questions before. Why are kobolds, as a fantasy creature, so nebulous?

Generally when people say orc, goblin, elf, dwarf, werewolf, vampire etc. a person can have a pretty solid idea of what traits that animal will have. I guess because they're usually copying that species from the same similar source works?

What happened to kobolds? I used to know them as a kind of german folklore creature, but then also as a short lizard person, and most recently there's been Dungeon Meshi, which gives the name kobold to anthropomorphic dogs.

Well, the trick is that none of these terms have a standard definition. In folklore, the words "elf", "dwarf", "gnome", "troll", "goblin", "pixie", etc. are used more or less interchangeably – all of these words might refer to the exact same folkloric critter, and conversely, the same word might be used to refer to several completely different folkloric critters, even within the same body of regional folklore, to say nothing of how their usage varies across different regions and over time.

Literally the only reason any of these terms have "standard" definitions in modern popular culture is because one specific piece of media got mega-popular and everybody copied it. For example, Tolkien is responsible not only for the popular media stereotypes of elves and dwarves: he's responsible for popularising the idea that "elf" and "dwarf" are separate kinds of creatures to begin with. Similarly, while Bram Stoker's Dracula isn't solely responsible for cementing the idea of what a vampire is in popular culture, it did standardise what vampire magic can do, and it helped cement the idea that a "vampire" and a "werewolf" are different beasties, which hasn't always been the case.

So the short answer is that there's just never been a mega-popular work about "kobolds" to provide a standard template for the type. Most modern depictions in Anglophone popular culture ultimately point back to the interpretation set forth by Dungeons & Dragons, but D&D itself has gone back and forth on the whether they're tiny dog-people or tiny lizard-people, with the tiny dog-person version being the earlier of the two, so even folks who are directly cribbing from D&D will vary on this point depending on which particular edition they're name-checking.

#media #tropes #folklore #popular culture #kobolds #gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #dungeons & dragons #d&d

1K notes · View notes

wytchwoods · 1 month

Text

My DnD character Soup Spoon! She's a kobold cleric :]

#sfw furry #furry #crested gecko #dnd #dungeons and dragons #kobold #scalie #my art #spoon #queue

861 notes · View notes

dyrdeer · 9 months

Text

When the prey animals in your party start to look tasty....

(feat @graycatluna and @gayfluffstuff's ocs!)

#furry #furry art #anthro #furries #my art #furry fandom #dnd #dnd pc #dnd oc #dnd party #dungeons and dragons #furry oc #kobold #mouse oc #mouse anthro #mousefolk #kenku #crow oc #bird anthro

3K notes · View notes

emlz · 5 months

Text

Covet, Kobold wild magic sorcerer and certified dumb baby

#original #original character #covet #kobold #dnd #dungeons and dragons

956 notes · View notes

madeleinefjall · 3 months

Text

Sir Squire and his new shining armour

#my art #my dnd character #dnd #dungeons and dragons #paladin #kobold #paladin kobold #Squire the Knight #tbh it has been a year since he got his armour and i haven't had the energy to draw it #but here it is!#i love him so much my boi

1K notes · View notes

kintheartist · 4 months

Text

Lizards and Lairs! A piece made for a customer who wanted it to feel like the cover of a movie or novel about their D&D party. A dragonborn, a kobold, and a lizardfolk--they came to me because dragons are my specialty and I had so much fun painting all of them with their different personalities and shapes!⁠

Commission info | Patreon

#dnd art #kobold #dragonborn #lizardfolk #dungeons and dragons #fantasy art

1K notes · View notes

nicopossum · 7 days

Text