kobold

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In a typical game, online or off, the game master will present the players with a situation — an encounter with a kobold, say.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2021

No kobold, gnome, or any other goblin of the mine disturbed the watchers through that night.

From The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by Burton, Frederic William

Who taught you that look--the look of an angel imprisoned by some evil magician in the body of a kobold?

From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

The German miners gave to an ore which they considered useless the name kobalt, from kobold, a goblin, gnome.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

Was it a malicious forest kobold, or only a night-owl?

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav