Space Kobolds

Notes from the writer: Kobolds are a fixture of fantasy campaigns, as GMs deploy fiendish traps and troupes of hilarious miniature dragons more competent than any adventurer could give them credit for. The Dark Matter campaign setting re-casts kobolds as mettlesome space miners in the service of eternal dragons or cyber liches. They turn asteroid fields into elaborate ship-catching traps and strip the party’s beloved home base to the bone in minutes.

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Asteroid-Dwellers and Starship Scavengers

Habitat: Space (Asteroids, Moon), Urban; Treasure: Armaments

Like their terrestrial counterparts, space kobolds make up for in cunning what they lack in physical strength. Asteroid fields that play host to space kobold colonies are death traps for spacers, minefields crisscrossed by steel wires and waiting harpoon guns to ensnare any unsuspecting ship that comes near. Once a ship or spaceborne creature is immobilized, a force of space kobolds springs into action, dismantling it with old-fashioned tools and a force of graphids, a domesticated species of asteroid-dwelling beast.

Warrens of space kobolds also inhabit the hoard planetoids of eternal dragons or are enthralled by creatures such as cyber liches. Any powerful creature makes an ideal ally for space kobolds, but they prefer overlords that deter spacesharks and other predators.

Space Kobold Small Dragon, Neutral
AC 14 Initiative +2 (12) HP 10 (3d6) Speed 30 ft.
		MOD	SAVE			MOD	SAVE			MOD	SAVE
STR	8	−1	−1	DEX	15	+2	+2	CON	11	+0	+0
INT	12	+1	+1	WIS	11	+0	+0	CHA	10	+0	+0
Gear Spear Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Passive Perception 10 Languages Common, Draconic CR 1/4 (XP 50; PB +2)
Traits
Pack Tactics. The kobold has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the kobold’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the Incapacitated condition.
Actions
Composite Spear. Melee Attack Roll: +4, reach 5 ft. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) Slashing damage. Harpoon Gun (Recharge 5–6). Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 12, one creature the kobold can see within 60 feet. Failure: 7 (2d6) Piercing damage and the target’s Speed is 0 until the start of the kobold’s next turn. Success: Half damage.