A muscular, anthropomorphic red and blue scaled dragon creature with horns and orange eyes stands against a dark, mystical background.

Resembling an anthropomorphic lizard, a typical kobold stands about 3 feet tall, measuring about 4 feet long from snout to the tip of their tail. Kobolds display a wide range of scale colors that often reflect draconic palettes, with red, blue, green, black, white, and various metals being especially common. Most kobolds develop natural countershading with a lighter underbelly. However, scale color can change over time. As a kobold ages, their scales often accumulate a patina-like outline, develop a natural gradation in their color, become faintly iridescent, or are augmented in some other way that seems roughly analogous to a human's hair turning gray. Whatever their coloration, a kobold's scales are thickest along their head and upper arms, providing some protection. Their draconic features don't stop at scales. Each kobold has a set of horns that vary slightly in size, shape, and number. Most common is a pair of short, backward-pointing horns, though kobolds might have as many as eight smaller horns or none at all. However, adult kobolds almost never have nose horns; each kobold hatches with the help of an “egg horn” that grows from their snout, which they shed within a few months of birth. Kobold horns crown a head that's massive compared to the their body, each sporting an armory of tough teeth designed for chewing and shredding in support of their omnivorous diet. In fact, kobolds can consume an impressive array of foods and other materials, with some priding See more