Re: Vodoni Aftermath - Kobolds

>Greetings again!
>As to Tucker's Kobolds Eugene wrote: "Tucker's Kobolds were mentioned in the
>editorial of Dragon #127. ["How does he know that of the top of his head," you
>ask?  It was the very first issue of Dragon I bought, though I'd been playing
>for years by then.] In it, a high-level party get massacered by a bunch of
>cunning kobolds.  Great stuff, if you ask me... (:  Hope that helps some... "
>What, that's it? Come on Eugene, you can't do that! Whetting our appetites like
>that, referring us to Dragon 127! I think I'm seconded here by Ziggy who seemed
>also to be intrigued by the mention of  "the fameous Kobold Paratrooper merc
>unit described in Dragon back in the old days?" when he wrote:
>"Anyone wanna fill this clueless DM in?  I've only been playing for about 8
>years..."
>I second the motion for disclosure of neat strategies to humiliate players with
>low-level monsters! How can you guys dare keep such a secret for you ... ;-)
>While we are at it, has anybody more suggestions in this vein?
>I recall there was a Dungeon (#17 or thereabouts, I think) in which a red
dragon
>enlisted hundreds of kobolds to defend his keep. The players exhausted their
>spells by combatting wagonloads of kobolds (armed with globes from a
necklace of
>fireballs) and had nearly no resources left when they finally encountered the
>dragon <eg>. Similar tactics were used in the Dragon Mountain boxed set, if I
>recall correctly. Also, there was a temple to Anthraxus in Dungeon # 10 (I
>think) where they had lots of lepers do mass-combat attacks, just simple
>overbearing and grappling attacks :-)

I recall that there was a recent (within the last 2-3 years) issue of
Dungeon that had a group of kobolds who were all specialized warriors...they
learned their skills from a captured evil human...it was pretty cool, and
gave my 5-7th level characters quite a bit of trouble...

Jesus saves, Allah protects, and Cthulhu thinks you'd make a nice sandwhich.