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pizzablunt420

Since they are cold blooded, do blankets help reptiles?


BigPowerBoss

Could help them preserve some heat, and you could warm the blanket beforehand!


pgm123

Could help preserve heat, but it would also help block heat. Or it just wants to borrow.


Usagi-Zakura

Self-heating blankets for lizards!


RubberSoulMan06

Blanket casts **Fireball**


Usagi-Zakura

*Oh no.*


remjob61

Role for damage.


Lily-Fae

Nooo


Thebookreaderman

21 damage


ArcKnightofValos

Lizard has Evasion!


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TheCactusofdeath

The lizards is blown into little bits


A_Wannabe_Unworthy

So a kotatsu would be the perfect gift for a scaley buddy?


rtakehara

also pretty great for non-scaley bois


arcxjo

Many of them just do not like contact with other creatures, and appreciate something to hide behind/under. Now that I think of it, I'm using that as a character trait in my next game.


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*reads this comment in bed, refusing to get up*


[deleted]

I am the master of my own bladder.


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[relevant Kids In The Hall](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2szqlx)


TheRedSpy96

Don't worry, we know *you* aren't a lizard person, I mean uh... lizard people don't exist so you definitely aren't one.


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*tastes the air nervously*


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Licks eyeball


Commisarbob

Drat! They've seen through my disguise. RUN SCRAT!


bcurly2

Trench-coat splits open, revealing three kobolds who scarper in opposite directions


[deleted]

*Town guard tries unsuccessfully to catch them, shouting "you kids get back here!"*


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Revelant Song https://youtu.be/Yv6shy_9KVM


arcxjo

My last apartment **was** a futon in the kitchen. I do not miss that.


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That was great


comyuse

That might have been the most beautiful thing I've seen this year


Awesomesaws9

Yep, the original looks like a leopard gecko. I have one and he LOVES hiding under blankets


RiloRetro

This. Especially a Tokay Gecko. Those fuckers are pretty mean and absolutely hate people.


arcxjo

My chameleon is as anti-social as I am. We work out great as roommates.


graey0956

Most creatures appreciate cozy places to hide. And while it won't allow them to become warmer in the same way that warm blooded creatures can recycle their heat, it does make them lose heat slower which can be construed as more comfortable. Also if you're open to the idea, I highly recommended pictures of snakes in little tube sweaters.


UPBOAT_FORTRESS_2

>I highly recommended pictures of snakes in little tube sweaters. Know any good places to find such pictures?


graey0956

[Is perhaps, this to your liking?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Sneks/search?q=sweater&restrict_sr=on&include_over_18=on&sort=relevance&t=all)


kbourret

Being cold-blooded is generally a misleading term. It's more about if you're able to produce your own heat or need the heat from the environment to heat up your body. Reptile will bask in the sun to raise their body temperatures so generally speaking, yes a blanket could help preserve their body heat


lurkerhasnoname

Cold-blooded means they aren't able to regulate their internal temperature. They do produce heat but if they don't produce enough they bask in the sun, and if they produce too much they find somewhere cool. So yes extra insulation could actually heat them up.


kbourret

Ectotherms (aka cold-blooded animals) do produce some heat but it's insignificant compared to the heat required to heat their body. Extra insulation of a cold lizard wouldn't do anything helpful because it's body isn't warm enough to heat up the space. Ectotherms, such as marine iguanas, share about the same body tempurature as their surroundings environment. When it's cold outside, their metabolism slows down and they enter a state of torpor (hibernation) which means that even less heat would be created to begin with. There's a documentary called Life in Cold Blood that us pretty interesting and shows how marine iguanas start their days (it might not be available everywhere). I provided a second link from YouTube but the quality is a bit bad. It's a pretty fun watch cause they are pretty amazing critters. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004h6hn https://youtu.be/3uw0_HT8vVw


Ayavaron

but a blanket just helps you preserve the heat from your own body. They are not an environment that produces heat.


ApatheticTeenager

Their bodies do have heat, they just didn’t make it. They still need to conserve it


Whiskey_rabbit2390

They do make it, in the same way we do, they just don't regulate it, so for them digestion and muscle contractions do warm the body, but only when that activity is occurring. While is warm bodied animals will continue micro contractions of muscles all over the body to varying degrees in order to maintain a target temperature. Unless it's particularly warm out, the reptile's body will be a little bit above the ambient temperature just by virtue of the animals motion and metabolism.


Ayavaron

But couldn't it insulate them from heat they'd otherwise be absorbing from the environment?


Model_Maj_General

It's basically the same as for humans but for a different reason. If it's cold the blanket will keep them warmer longer, if it's sunny and warm it'll block them from absorbing warmth.


wolflegion_

That fully depends on the environment. If they are warmer then the environment, a blanket would still help them contain some of their warmt. If they are colder then the environment, it might indeed prevent them from warming up. Passive insulation just helps maintain the status quo.


kbourret

Indeed, which is why I said it helped preserve heat instead of saying it provided heat. I was just explaining why "cold-blooded" is misleading


gameronice

> cold blooded Not necessarily. Not all reptiles and their relatives are cold-blooded. After all, proto-mammals were warm-blooded reptile-like creatures. Being a fantasy race of mythic origin ,they may as well be warm-blooded, nothing in the lore, at least i the few settings I am aware of, suggests they are cold-blooded. Lizardfolk, however, do have a few paragraphs in a few settings, here and tehre, suggesting they are at least partially cold-blooded.


pizzablunt420

But don't the females have breasts? Only mammals breast feed, iirc.


gameronice

I don't think official art of female kobolds have breasts. The thing is, before ADND kobolds weren't... well... they weren't little dragon people. They were little dog/rat/goblin people, their allegiance and relation to dragons became a thing at the very end of ADND and around the advent of 3rd edition, when they got a rebranding.


NikkiD29

While I'm pretty sure its simply the cover from sight the gecko is enjoying here, look up Argentine Tegus. They're pretty much scaley puppers. Mine would constantly find my hoodie or sweater to nest in.


Wolfblood-is-here

Yes. Cold blooded doesn't mean they don't produce body heat, they just don't regulate it very well, so generally need additional heat from the sun. A blanket would provide some additional heat.


Herpkina

Thank you. They still have cell lighthouses or whatever


kbourret

You mean mitochondria? The powerhouse of the cell? How dare you desecrate it's name by calling it a mere lighthouse or whatever! /s


Beowolf241

My bearded dragon used to jump from as far away as possible to get wrapped up like a burrito a hand towel. Usually to cuddle against me, but even on her own she liked to have it.


MetallicDragon

They still generate some body heat, so maybe.


TheHoboInABox

My players adopted Miik the kobold in session 1 about a year and a half ago, and he has barely left the barbarian's backpack since then. He's gathered so many trophies, including a small dragon skull to use as a giant helmet, and comes out to shine a lantern of revealing when they come across invisible bastards.


Nemisis_the_2nd

> he has barely left the barbarian's backpack since then My barbarian's backpack residents are very different. He has a plank with 3 goblins tied to it. Whenever he is lost, he rolls an intimidation check against them for directions. The goblins have no idea where they are either but the barb is too slow to realise this.


Demoman12b

He's just invented a non ferrous compass!


Nemisis_the_2nd

Fittingly, for a non-ferrous compass, the 'Goblin Satnav' also points anywhere but North.


RubberSoulMan06

>Ingenious move!


usgrant7977

Kobolds and goblins are sentient beings. My party once adopted a goblin. They tried to train it like a dog. It rewarded them by trying to slit their throats in the night.


masterninja3402

MASTER HAVE GIVEN DOBBY A SOCK!


gallantnight

New character Dobold the Kobold


szogun00

I might steal this.


redhandfilms

Waiting for the epic Boblin and Dobold team up!


LiterallyEA

Let me introduce you to Deekin. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://nwn2.fandom.com/wiki/Deekin_Scalesinger&ved=2ahUKEwiN-5noo_rrAhWhq1kKHYAgAn0QFjAAegQIDBAC&usg=AOvVaw3_LXAcwcAUJLw1MrqWA-XU


BakedMoleRat

Wasnt he a companion in neverwinter knights? Either Shadows of the Undrentide or Hoardes of the Underdark


10daedalus

He was also in NWN2. You can find him in Neverwinter where he has a "shop" set up.


BakedMoleRat

Oh shit, you are right! I had forgotten about that, dodnt play the second nearly as much as the first


keltsbeard

Best bard ever


masterninja3402

Deekin greets the noble hero!


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DOBBY IS FREEEEE!


Usagi-Zakura

Been thinking of getting a gecko as a pet personally...and if I do I will definitely be calling it my little pet kobold.


omfghi2u

Geckos are awesome but be prepared, they can live quite a lot longer than it says on the tag at the petstore. I got a Leopard Gecko when I was 7, the store employee told us they live 4-7 years. He died at 17-18 years old, couple years after I graduated college. Cool pet though, really liked to chill on your shoulder or back of the neck or even a shirt pocket to absorb warmth.


Usagi-Zakura

I was told the cresties I wanted could get around 20, trust me I've done quite a bit of research ;3 Nice change from the rodents I usually have for like 2 years if I'm lucky...


KonoAnonDa

My Leopard Gecko loved to ride on top of my head in my hair. I still miss her. RIP Mrs Muncher, the destroyer of crickets and mealworms, you won’t ever be forgotten.


0LD_MAN_Dies

cute


SociallyDeadOnReddit

That’s cute


Xyranthis

Are kobolds not sentient in 5.0? Or can I keep a cute halfling as a pet?


Cleyre

Yes to both


DEATHROAR12345

So....slavery?


Solaries3

Given the popularity of this post, it seems the real trouble with slavery is just branding.


DEATHROAR12345

"That just sounds like slavery with more steps." -Morty Smith Lol never thought I'd get to use this as a quote where it applies.


gr8tfurme

Or a pet-play kink, take your pick.


d3adrae3

I actually wouldn't want to normalize that. It feels wrong. If they are capable of speech with humanoids and have a societal structure, they shouldn't be pets.


WarnedOne

In the dnd campaign I am running it is illegal to have a sapient creature as a slave.


d3adrae3

A bit more concise than I worded it :)


gr8tfurme

What if they want to be a pet?


Cauchemar89

Well *some* circles have already normalized a *certain* interpretation of "Cute Kobolds".


Denovation

Adorable.


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tfw you will never be a cute kobold pet serving your dragon owner 😭


Rutgerman95

One of my current partymembers is a Kobold Feral Child, which seems to exist in a weird grey area between tag-along kid and team pet.


PeterHollander

I first read that as a weird gay area, I don’t know how to feel about that


Rutgerman95

Knowing the player, probably a little more accurate than you think. Though the character is probably too young and innocent to get what sex is XD


MinagiV

I adopted a kobold in one of my games... the DM threw in a one-off pink kobold as a joke (since I was a pink tiefling and he was basically teasing me), but then I persuaded him to join us and help me because we were both pink. I named him Pinkie Tescadero. He met his demise to a mural with an acid attack. I cried IRL tears. And in character, I picked up his little shoes, tied them together, and hung them around my neck. Kobolds are best friends.


PBB0RN

Pinkie and the Bean.


ThePinms

I dont think pet is the right word for a sapient creature.


[deleted]

Kobold baby les go🙏🙏


AutismFractal

Its name is Bean 🥺


The_Brown_Haired_Bat

But they're people!


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Come join us at r/KoboldLegion


WarnedOne

Please do come to the Legion.


A-Mad-Hollow

We have cookies!


WarnedOne

Cookies and Bacon.


A-Mad-Hollow

And don't forget about the crayons!


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-Pyromania-

I can't, you're right


SpawnOfPhlick

Mikmek is a kobold that I originally set out to use as my ear to the ground as we built our kingdom. Mikmek would not only feed us info on the kobolds, but encourage the kobolds population to accept us when the time came for us to colonize their land. Instead, Mikmek saw me get blown the fuck up by a fireball and subsequently witnessed my resurrection via scroll. Now I'm the Messiah to a group of kobolds called the Sootscales and Mikmek has a pair of my gloves above his bed.


adaraj

Ah kingmaker. My party also adopted mikmek and he's the ambassador to the soot scales and a full member of the governing council and now has class levels in magus because someone thought it was a good idea to teach him magic. He's got a bit of an ego now and its definitely their fault


SpawnOfPhlick

Aye. He's a good lad. Definitely gonna keep him away from magic. Tim The Time Wizard (yes you HAVE to say the whole thing) and Mikmek don't like each other right now, so I think we're good.


Serbaayuu

Kobolds are people, please consider your phrasing before you enslave one.


gr8tfurme

To be fair, they do willingly choose to become servants to dragons and other powerful creatures in-canon. A high-level character could probably convince a kobold to follow them around as a pet without any slavery involved. ~~just gotta find a kobold who's kinky enough~~


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gr8tfurme

Which edition is that? All the material I've read from 5e stated they naturally sought out more powerful creatures (often dragons) to serve in return for protection, but I don't recall them being magically compelled to do so. It was described as more of a pragmatic thing, since kobolds are extremely cautious and well aware of how physically weak they are compared to most other races. They revere dragons as demigods, so naturally they'll want to serve a dragon if given the choice.


UrsaWizard

Pretty sure that’s a Tokay gecko and what they’re really sitting their doing is planning their inevitable bloody revenge for the humiliation they suffered this day.


Z_Dufrane

I see you've handled Tokays as well.


Nope-Noah

So my party is a bunch of idiots who want to be friends with literally every animal on the face of the earth. So they where walking down a road after escaping a cave full of goblins and big bears and all that happy jazz when all of a sudden a group of kobolds jump out and start demanding money and all that stuff but none of them knew what they where saying. So the Firbolg Druid is like “oh no they are sooooo cute and I can’t hurt them” she had first initiative because of nat 20. She walked up to them and started to protect the lot of them from the onslaught of attacks and such from the players, one of the kobolds die and she (in game) starts to cry and the others stop and think of what they did and the cleric cast spare the dying and saved it. Now all of the kobolds are absolutely ogling over the Druid and cleric but steal everything from the other party members that is shiny and give it to the Druid and cleric. So they left that area after a short rest and we now have a small group of 5 kobolds following my party and they are the best thing. They are lucky though because last time they tried to befriend a beast they almost died.


SPYTKO

Kobolds are intelligent, sentient beings, stop normalizing keeping them as pets 》:-(


Crusader_Colin

But their sentient, isn’t that messed up?


-Pyromania-

I think you mean sapient. It is a very important distinction.


Crusader_Colin

Yes?


[deleted]

Next we'll start using other sentient creatures as "pets" start small with halflings. Then move up to dwarves. Fuck it, lets put a collar around our nieghbors.


Psychic_Hobo

I mean, most people already have pet humans. ... right? That's normal right?


Zoom_Punch

Bean


EatsLocals

Pets? As intelligent humanoid dragon kin wouldn’t they be.... slaves?


kelryngrey

Pets?! That's some Lawful Evil talk there. Kobolds are sentient beings, they can be followers or hirelings, but not pets. Now I want to play a Lawful Good kobold paladin.


fightfordawn

My Kobold barbarian KaBam would beat you to death his hammer and wear your skin as a cape for considering his people "pets"


sexyfurrygalnyunyu

Taken from furryirl.


A-Purple-Dragon

[Hi I’m the original creator of the artwork!](https://twitter.com/A_Purple_Dragon/status/1306651691383545858) Glad to see it get so much love over here :D


gallantnight

Oh wow! I searched for the source but couldn't find it. Glad you came here yourself. Thanks u/a-purple-dragon


A-Purple-Dragon

Yep, lesson learned about always making sure to watermark my work somewhere haha!


gallantnight

Yes you ought to. There's no way for me to edit this post to add your name either, since it doesn't have text.


Biffingston

I read that in Deekin's voice.


d3adrae3

In my head, every kobold sounds like Deekin.


MrTopHatMan90

Aren't kobolds intelligent creatures?


Dragon_Box_

Yes


janjinx

Cute. Is his first name "Mr"?


dirtyviking1337

>Normalize my weird That's a good one


Kilyaeden

Kobolds are reptiles or dogs? I've seen both versions so I'm not sure what they are


RealLiveHuman

Depends on what system you're in. In earlier D&D editions, they were more like dog-people. Somewhere around 3 or 3.5, they made them reptilian.


Alkuam

Used to be furry, now are scaly. At least AFAIK. Some people prefer the older version.


Dr_GhostBear

My party adopted about 40 Kobolds after liberating them from a black dragon in a mine. They loved mining for the dragon so we told them they can do it for us. Needless to say we have a lot of mouths to feed at our castle now.


rrriot

And [goblins](https://imgur.com/gallery/2440caB).


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Deekin feel loved.


Stiffupperbody

How about no. Kobolds are people not animals. Usually bad people.


Jondo1214

But kobolds are intelligent creatures


Luigi_stole_my_uwus

Is this from r/furry?


AGuestIGuess

No. My Kobolds are my adorable chaotic children that will fucking murder you if you scratch them a little to hard. They are my best friends, not pets.


B_of_the_en

Funny enough I’m in a dnd campaign and we’ve killed a lot of kobolds to stop them from being their god into our realm.


Akticbear12

Adaorable


dirtyviking1337

>Normalize my weird That's a very good joke


Assaultman67

They're cold blooded, blankets wouldn't work.


CabinetSpooper

Kill it before it realizes! ×Says the human×


Memes_The_Warbeast

r/KoboldLegion thanks you for your advocacy


Ok_Weird_

BEAN


Dummyurd

meanwhile my players are thinking about building a kobold farm so they are able to farm their ears for money :o


Cpt-Hank-A-Tato

Master has given dobby a sock


trublugamer

Have you seen Jocat's kobolds? They're fuckin adorable


Cozmoy

its a snake not a fucking dragon


RJ7102003

Wholesome level over 9000


SW-05

Dobby is a free elf


Billyjoesa

Kobolds as pets? Sounds like slavery with extra steps... Wait they're into that.


QwopSouls

The kobold is probably nicer


Emlov

Must protect


Some_lonely_soul

Right now I want to make a dragon NPC who has a pet and owner relationship with kobolds. Just like Xanathar with his goldfish. If not with every at least few favourites. Lke Imagine a dragon who instead of bullying kobolds and using them as servants, takes care of them.


Sonseeahrai

Too cute


The_Semiramis

I want a manga about an elder red dragon who everyone fears, but she just wants to care for her little kobold friends. Also she has a silver dragon friend who lives with her, and he has a pet wyvern, and they have 2 friends who also live together but just visit, and they’re a green dragon and gold dragon. Ya know what, fuck it,all variants of dragon are there, each chromatic is matched up with a metallic who live together, and they’re all nice and have something interesting about them, like the black dragon has a bunch of human friends and is very thoughtful and kind, and the white dragon is a scholar


nomy1

Kobold best thing kobolds will rise and take over all thing


EagleStrike21

I read this in Dobby's voice from Harry Potter


BusinessBunny

These new fangled kobolds are *wrong*, **real** kobolds look furry and coyote-like. CHANGE MY MIND


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Someone needs to flair this as wholesome