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Randal_Dundragon
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 Posted - 18 Aug 2009 : 05:27:07
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Alright, just wondering if anyone happens to know a good place to set a rather expansive kobold lair. Seems simple enough i know, but i just wanted to see if anywhere in particuler stands out.
Anyway, Peace!
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Its simple really, Your an idiot and I'm simply a figment of your imagination |
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Afetbinttuzani
Senior Scribe
Canada
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Posted - 18 Aug 2009 : 05:31:22
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Originally posted by Randal_Dundragon
Alright, just wondering if anyone happens to know a good place to set a rather expansive kobold lair. Seems simple enough i know, but i just wanted to see if anywhere in particuler stands out.
Anyway, Peace!
In his 2E Haunted Halls of Eveningstar module, Ed mentions the existence of a sizable kobold lair above the haunted halls but does not flesh it out. |
Afet bint Tuzaní
"As the good Archmage often admonishes me, I ought not to let my mind wander, as it's too small to go off by itself."
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Randal_Dundragon
Seeker
USA
95 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2009 : 07:53:20
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| Really? ill have to check that out, thanks :) |
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
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Posted - 18 Aug 2009 : 07:59:30
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The Ice Lakes region north of Luskan is long known to have a sizable kobold population. There's also Maiden's Tomb Tor near Waterdeep. Ed did a Dragon article on kobolds a long, long time ago which outlined a few kobold haunts. Someone like Sage or Wooly will be along directly to point you to the issue number.
-- George Krashos
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Thauramarth
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 18 Aug 2009 : 08:01:47
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Thing with kobolds is, they're kind of convenient-sized, so basically anywhere that's hilly or mountaineous. However, it cannot be so close to civilisation that the local authorities would have sent in an army.
It very much depends on where you want to place the adventure. If it is sizeable, I will assume that you want the adventurers to return to some convenient base to re-supply. Here's a couple of suggestions (with "base" added in brackets):
* The Crags (Mirabar, Longsaddle); possible tie-in to Gauntlgrym;
* The southern Sword Mountains (Waterdeep, Amphail, Rassalantar) - possible tie-in with some of the abandoned gnome-holds;
* The Sword Hills (Daggerford - my favorite all-purpose adventurers' base of all time)
* The Sunset Mountains (north) (Corm Orp, Hill's Edge) - possible interference run by the Zhentarim from Darkhold (who might supply the Kobs with weapons and some goodies they would not normally have)
* The Sunset Mountains (south) (Asbravn, Iriaebor) - same Zhentarim intervention possible.
* The Stonelands or the eastern Storm Horns (Arabel, Tilverton before it was blown up) - 'cause that's were all the gobs and kobs go;
* Desertsmouth Mountains (Tilverton, Shadowdale, Daggerdale) - interference from Cormyr patrols, Zhentarim patrols, dwarves of Tethyamar, plus the gnome village of Stormpenhauder in the Spiderhaunt Forest (from the Randall Morn trilogy in 2nd edition)
* Eastern Dragonspine Mountains (I think, BTW, that FRC1-Ruins of Adventure placed a kobold lair in that area; maybe you can substitute is, or make them "cousins".
And that's just north and west of the Sea of Fallen Stars. |
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Thauramarth
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 18 Aug 2009 : 08:06:41
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Originally posted by George Krashos
The Ice Lakes region north of Luskan is long known to have a sizable kobold population. There's also Maiden's Tomb Tor near Waterdeep. Ed did a Dragon article on kobolds a long, long time ago which outlined a few kobold haunts. Someone like Sage or Wooly will be along directly to point you to the issue number.
-- George Krashos
Hmmm... Might that be "Elminster's Notes: Kobold Commotions" in Dragon #216? |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Randal_Dundragon
Seeker
USA
95 Posts |
Posted - 19 Aug 2009 : 00:45:04
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| Wow... Lots of Info, thanks guys. LOVE this website and forum :) |
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 19 Aug 2009 : 02:48:01
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Dragon 216.
Added to the growing list of old school Dragon mags, I need to get. |
"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
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Posted - 20 Aug 2009 : 16:55:53
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| I also seem to remember there being quite a few kobolts in the mountains of Turmish. Enough for them to have been a major threat at times in history. What little lore there is on the subject should be in the old 2ed. Vilhon Reach source book. |
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Randal_Dundragon
Seeker
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Posted - 20 Aug 2009 : 20:06:37
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| Awesome thanks :) |
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