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

Saxe and the guide slept, and Dale was keenly awake watching for the kobold who disturbed their peace.

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

And all the place was filled with a goblin bustle, trollish racketings, ringing of gnomish anvils, clanging of kobold forges—a clamorous cavern filled with metal Nibelungens.

From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham

The next picture on which he came illustrated a fairy-story, and represented a kobold or some malicious spirit with evil eyes, a fierce moustache and a huge open mouth.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various

Above was star-sown night, but Rome lay under a kobold roof of her own lighting.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary