Quote Originally Posted by Zeful View Post
Or in fitting with the thread, you can simply read "Advances through age category" in the MM, as requiring "Advancement: By age category" for true dragons preventing Kobolds from being true dragons entirely, and curtailing every single problem relating to them being dragons without banning the book, the feat, and the race.
The problem there is that in Races of the Dragon it's actually pretty clear that Dragonwrought really was supposed to make them True Dragons. All the mythology described in that book hints at it. So making them not count just screws that up and thus isn't common sense.

Also, your interpretation leads to logical impossibilities, because what Draconomicon actually says is that dragons that get more powerful by aging are True Dragons, while dragons that don't have age categories are not. Kobolds do get more powerful simply by aging and have age categories, so the ruling you suggest would make them both True and not True at the same time.

Furthermore, just denying Kobolds those oddball rules doesn't fix the problem that still exists for standard True Dragons... a Wyrmling Steel Dragon could still take Dragonblood Sorcerer 7 as their first level for the huge BAB and save boost, while a Great Wyrm dragon who takes three levels in any class still gains a virtual age category for it.

The suggestions I made don't create logical impossibilities and preserve the intent of the feat while getting rid of the silly bits for both Kobolds and other True Dragons... which *is* common sense.

JaronK