Quote Originally Posted by Runestar View Post
You just answered your own question.

Nobody played a hundred year old geriatric kobold prior to races of dragon exactly because the rules couldn't support the creation of a viable kobold PC. Emphasis being on the word "viable". They were intentionally watered down so they could make for very weak npcs, but that also meant PC kobolds were screwed, as there was no precedent for a negative LA.

You should be thankful that RoD made such a concept viable. What does that say about "rollplaying", when it actually increases the variety of character archetypes available.

You can say that stats aren't everything to a PC, but to me, without stats, the PCs are nothing.
I actually played a Kobold PC once, with all the **** stats and all. It was quite fun. I was a ranger totally against gnomes (Favored enemy +6, improved favored enemy, fierce bane gnome hunting weapons, etc.). He was quite fun to play. xD