Kobolds, /tg/. I want pictures, books, articles, videos, stories. Inspire me to new heights with kobold-related shenanigans for my campaign.
Tucker's Kobolds are a classic.
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>>47108901
On kindle there are two books. Ren of Atikala and the sequal Scars of Northaven. First one is free.
Don't have much beyond art and screencaps.
>>47111919
yeah, The only video I know of is some interview with a dragon and some of his minions, on youtube. and the only webcomics are dark places, which is dead, and that thing the artist started doing after dropping DP
>>47108901
just working on a thing right now. just gonna keep scribbling this i guess
>>47109012
speaking of, http://www.tuckerskobolds.com
>>47112152
Love your stuff
I actually played a Kobold Monk recently in Pathfinder, and it went really well.
I'm one of the most experienced players in my group, and we were getting some new rookies with this round of campaigning, so I was asked to be more of a support & skill fill for the newer guys who would invariably play their class straight with little deviance. So instead of playing a Dwarvish or Human monk, I picked a Kobold Monk. And not just any Kobold, a Carnation Scale Kobold.
And I played him like a tiny typhoon of fury & fists.
It's worth noting that Pathfinder Kobold culture is very much made up of racial hatred for anything but Kobolds and Dragons. The fact that he was A) a pink Kobold, and B) a heavy martial class, meant that he was literally for all intents and purposes a walking talking contradiction. Just take a Cutebold and make him a candidate for the Angry Marines.
We started off by clearing out some demonic possession on a tree spirit by stomping the shit out of it and it's animated fruit goblins. I spent most of that game just CCing everything in sight with stunning strike & similar status effects. At the end I even managed to avoid pissing off a druidic deity via knowledge: religions. The second session I played it a little more in character, and fucked off when we arrived on an island where locals were being harassed by sea serpents & pissed off sea dragon deities. Needless to say my character hopped on the whole dragon deity bit, and even smacked the shit out of one of our teammates for hitting on the daughter of one of the deities in an incredibly trashy manner (she was hiding among the native population to avoid her enraged father). He got rewarded at the end with draconic features, and electric elemental damage, which really reinforced the typhoon fury bit. We had quite a bit of fun with that campaign, but by the end of it I was woefully underpowered, being a small creature.
>>47111993
>that image
That's fucking adorable.
>>47108901
This is now my new magical realm. Thanks a lot, you bastard op :D
Some of these kobolds are absolutely cute.
>>47111919
I've searched a lot for Knip Runtweed's story. Do you have a screencap or a link?
Apologies for not posting kobold pics, I'm at work.
So, I've found multiple homebrew kobold races for DnD 5e. Which ones do you guys like?
i love kobolds!
im not even sure that's a kobold.
I actually don't like kobolds much, but I have some art.
Anyone nabbed a screenshot of the 'boldtube comment from the thread yesterday? :(
I've wanted to try and get a petition going around to pass on to Paizo / Wizards to change Kobolds stat-block to a more reasonable number. No one would change anything, but I think it'd be nice if they'd finally get rid of that stupid -4 STR. Even just lower it to -2 I'd be fine with- it'd be nice if they could be brought up to a reasonable little monstrous race, though- as opposed to being the absolute shit version of Goblins.
"But muh natural armurr"
Any kobold featuring Web comics besides dark paves and that other one that artist has?
I need more pixel art
>>47114422
if someone made a coloring book of images like this I would be delighted <3.<3
>>47114391
Was that the one with the Umbrella of Holding? Nah, don't have that one, sorry.
This thread needs more titty lizards.
![1456293075.korichi_jaavik[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/x3ytumZ.jpg "1456293075.korichi_jaavik[1].jpg")
>>47118820
Na, they're not tits, they're storage compartments. The left side is a canteen full of booze and the right one is a money pouch.
>>47119006
You're wrong
Unless she can lactate gold and booze
...Can she?
>>47119053
>...Can she?
A 10,000 year dragon lead breeding program lead to her
>>47114879
She looks like a Kobold.
She looks like a Kobold I'd like to get to know.
>>47111993
Dat comic is precious
>>47119269
>those egg laying hips
>those hugging hands
>>47111993
What's this from?
>>47118820
Agreed.
>>47121545
Dark Places. It's a crop from the last page posted before the author abandoned it
>>47122010
I miss that comic.
>Really enjoy Kobolds and like their cuteness, lewdness, and occasion horrible monsterousness all around
>Already have lizard men in my setting and have no idea how I'm going to justify both
>>47122657
One lives on another continent. Early on a common ancestor migrated and they evolved differently.
Only now are the kobolds beginning to show up on the other continent after sneaking aboard trade ships to loot, but then the ship left port with them on board.
>>47122657
What's there to justify? They can be at least as different from each other as humans and dwarfs or halflings or whatever.
>>47123022
Well I don't really have dwarves or halflings either, but I would ask for feedback on this idea;
>Eggs of lizardmen determine their size
>Hotter temperatures decrease the size of the resulting baby and bring out more draconian traits, though obviously there is lower limit of how cold it can be or else baby won't develop
>Lizardmen grow their children in warm spring waters or in large compost heaps; makes 7 and a half foot tall lizard men
>Humans sometimes steal or buy slave - eggs from the lizard people, put them in blankets on their beds or next to fire places; hatches into 4 foot tall little cute kobolds
>Rarely humans raise the eggs in a really hot place or a Wizard keeps a special Fite burning around the egg for maximum heat; hatches into tiny 1 foot tall at most knuckle dragons, which actually have fire breath. Basically Mushu.
How does this work?
>>47122657
Long ago, a group of Dwarves and a group of Lizard men were at war with one another. Their war was so great and terrible that it brought the mountains down around them, trapping them all in a cavern deep, deep underground. The two sides decided that they would need to work together in order to survive, and, one thing leading to another, they eventually began interbreeding.
Thusly, a race of Shortstack Kobolds was born.
>>47108901
MMM, KOBOLD THREAD! COMMENCING DUMP!
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>>47127291
>that helmet
Now I want to make Kobolds like Spiral Knights
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So you could say that that's it, you're sick of all this "shittier version of goblins" bullshit that's going on right now? You could say that you think Kobolds deserve much better than that? Much, much better than that? And you have a statblock you're proposing for Kobolds?
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>>47127506
>scaly garbage 3ebolds
Remove lizard
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>>47127554
AAAAND I'm out.
Shit. Is there a way to play one of these guys in 5e? I've always loved kobolds and lizardfolk
Cute kobolds.
Cute thread.
>>47127291
>no gag reflex
Bamp.
>>47132374
Oh my. This looks delicious
Picture that I based one of my current characters off of.
>>47133068
So what would be a fair stat block for PC level kobolds?
+2 Dex, +2 Int, -2 Str?
Quick and clever but still puny seems to fit.
>>47127377
Are you saying goblins are masterwork kobolds?
>>47127377
I just got to this thread, but what you just said sounds like exactly what I did, so I pulled out the homebrew version of Kobold I did. These are designed around the now commonly accepted idea of them acting like Tucker's Kobolds, being masters of traps and stuff. This particular setting also had them as skilled engineers in general, building clever and intricate devices to give them an edge in their underground environment. Built for Pathfinder.
Small size
30 foot move speed
60 ft Darkvision
Light Blindness
+1 Natural Armour
+2 racial bonus on Craft (Trapmaking), Profession (Miner), and Perception
-Craft (Trapmaking) and Stealth are always class skills
-Automatically proficient with all self-made weapons
+4 Dex, -2 Con, -2 Str
The idea here is that Kobold, while physically weak, are viciously clever, and even keeping one captured can prove dangerous. Any adult Kobold has spent enough time helping maintain the communal traps that they can usually kludge together surprisingly deadly devices from random scrap.
Prideful but cowardly, they really do rely on fighting on their terms. Walking straight into a Kobold chokepoint is a good way to get gunned down by a chorus of burst-fire repeating crossbows.
If that seems excessive, it's because black powder weapons are used by other races in the setting, but Kobold dislike them for the bright flash and noise which makes them unpleasant for tunnel use. In a setting with no black powder, they should probably tuned down to just use high-grade regular crossbows.
>>47141306
I remember this comics. Completely unfappable, but ending is pretty fun.
>tfw no kobold wife
>>47142730
>tail hat
Cute.
>>47142730
I wish there were more that 3 pics of her
>>47144119
Me too, anon.
>>47145009
Me too.
Did any of those kobold games get made yet?
>>47148138
In intrigued, tell me more.
justa greentext story im throwing around here
>playing DnD yesterday
>played a kobold warlock
>we enter a city
>friend joked around about whether the place had a kobold slave market
>DM actually rolled a d100 see just for shits and giggles
>a fucking 99 he rolled
>immediately bought a female kobold slave
>he wants to ask stuff out of her
>does not speak (kobold) Draconic
>being the only party member at the time who knows fluent Draconic
>intentionally mistranslating everything she says to him because
shit was fun but we freed her eventually but hired her as a cleaning lady/thief extra. bought some clothes for her too because she's literally wearing a potato sack
Does anyone have that comic where the Kobold uh steals a gem of some kind and is captured by the local human mayor and his large orc/dragon guards?
>>47152257
Nevermind. I found it. First result when you google "Kobold Adventure Comic"
>>47152280
it's also onexhentaibut it's in korean, assuming the author had it deleted upon discovery
>>47127539
What in the frak is that kobold fighting?
>>47152602
Looks like a weird take on a behir or remorhaz, maybe? Some sort of centipede-dragon?
>>47122657
... what is there to justify?
One is not-orcs and the other polish their dragons coins for fun.
>>47152218
Kek
>>47127524
goblinbolds are definitely slavs
REMOV REMOV
>>47152602
>frak
Is it summer already?
Can you actually play a Kobold in 5e? Or do I have to homebrew it?
>>47156183
You should be glad for Summer, fresh blood is brought in and shitty old stink is forced out.
>>47156706
You're going to need to homebrew it. I rather like this one, as long as you ignore winged kobolds (the designer clearly underestimated how big an advantage a fly speed is)
>>47156839
Thanks. Really hope WotC lets us play some monters races soon. I just started and I kinda miss that about 3.5
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>>47156706
I beleive there is also stats from Kobold Press's Midgard Heroes book for 5th.
>>47127338
>Kobold Spiral Knights
Holy fuck anon, I'm on board.Am I the only one who thinks SK lore is salvageable enough to be a campaign setting?
![core[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/1W7c6zi.jpg "core[1].jpg")
>>47159058
>Trapped on a machine planet
>air is unbreathable, no one can leave their evirosuits
>we van't possibly survive here, but the ship's too badly damaged to leave
>to repair the ship we need a power source
>there's only one big enough
The way out...is Down.
>>47158855
Does anyone have a pdf? Or should i just buy it?
>>47159443
yeah, its on 7chan. just google midgard heroes 7chan. Should be first result or two, would post myself but it is one MB over the limit.
>>47159726
Thanks. Gonna have the funnest 5e campaign ever
>>47159726
Thanks Bruh
>>47127554
I actually had a GM that made a big talk about how "my character would be hated" in society if I chose to play kobold, but I think he softened his stance when he noticed everyone else in the party was playing monsters. Regardless, I bought a disguise kit as part of my starting equipment just so I wouldn't be overly hindered.
The DM ruled that the disguise kit was entirely made of mr. potato head pieces. I asked if that meant I could get unlimited uses out of it, and he agreed.
I spent the rest of the short-lived campaign wearing a plastic moustache and glasses with a bowler hat resting on top of my hedgehog familiar who was acting as my wig, telling anyone in the bar who would listen I was a dragon.
bumping with a wip
>>47152218
No bully!
>>47163138
>I actually had a GM that made a big talk about how "my character would be hated" in society if I chose to play kobold
>but I think he softened his stance when he noticed everyone else in the party was playing monsters
why is it that every DM thinks kobolds will be universally reviled, but doesn't bat an eye at literally any other suggestion?
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>>47159950
No problem guys, have fun bolding in systems no bold has bolded before.
>>47164267
Why is it that you kick dogs and have a small penis? See, I can phrase a statement as a question too.
Not every DM does that. You can ask why it's *so common in your experience*, but if I had to guess, it's because you look for a DM on /tg/ and they're tired of the Tucker's kobolds meme.
>>47163516
I love it.
>>47165790
kitprin a cutie and I'm not even into fatties
>>47156183
Do you not have an almenac?
>>47165349
I think that Tucker's kobolds are a way to make them more of a race rather than only somebody's minions.
>>47123962
Lizardmen are a "perfect" hybrid between dragons and cold-blooded lizards, being that cold conditions means hostile conditions, and their body develop in order to be able to fight quickly. On the other hand, warmer conditions means better conditions, meaning that they may start weaker in order to grow with time in stronger beings, developing their magic or physical bodies.
>>47122657
In my setting Kobolds are cursed Dragons, stripped from their magic and might because of reasons.
For said reasons they are divided between those that are fighting for redemption and those fighting for revenge, either way they have to do the best with what they have, so they usually turn into political figures, rogues, clerics or engineers in order to achieve some degree of power, being the latter one the most important class inside their society for being the responsible for maintaining it without depending on other races and/or beings.
Any source on :
How fast do they breed ? (X eggs every Y weeks)
How long do they live ?
How long untill they are mature enough to lay eggs ?
>>47167598
Seconded, sauce plz.
Pic unrelated.
>>47133294
>Volksstrum
>Kobold
That Kobold either surrendered or died
History senpai. It's brutal.
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>>47167674
Usually the sword with a guns and not by far, because the guns usually easier to break despite of it's higher power.
But these are more questions of setting rather than race. For the usual take on the race I would say that they usually reproduce from 4 to 8 times faster than humans (cycles of 4 months probably). They tend to have their lives cut short, but they have long natural life spans (a few centuries for a healthy and powerful one), and they reach "maturity" very quickly in the range of 7~10 years
>>47167598
>How fast do they breed ? (X eggs every Y weeks)
>How long do they live ?
>How long untill they are mature enough to lay eggs ?
Races of the Dragon for D&D 3.5 gives some info. It says that it's 2 weeks from conception to egglaying, then 60 days till hatching. No mention of breeding cycles, so it's unknown how long it takes before they're able to have another egg. Physical maturity at 6-10 years of age (full adulthood is 11+ years old). Middle age is 60 years, old age 90, and maximum age is ~120.
>>47167598
A kobold can lay eggs as soon as its body is large enough to accommodate at least one egg. Once they ate big enough to hold two eggs they lay two, and so on up until their full size, somewhere between 6-8 eggs.
>>47127446
>"Big-ass titties!"
>>47167598
Why, are you planning on getting a kobold egg and raising a tiny breeding pet waifu?
>>47167674
The sword wins because guns don't kill people.
I'll be honest, a lot of these just look like Lizardfolk to me.
>>47169407
Kobolds are generally just small lizardfolk at this point.
>>47108901
Kobold are lizard-like or dog-like?
>>47170668
In d&d they were originally little goblin things with dog-like muzzles, small horns, rat-like tails, and covered in scales.
>>47170668
Since 3rd edition D&D they've been playing up the idea that they're related to dragons, so they're most like weak dragonkin/dragonborn whatever.
Outside of D&D they're gnomes that live in mines.
>>47170668
Why not both?
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>>47170875
Thanks, I just remember them in "Baldur's Gate" and Tormenta.
In most settings, it seems like Kobolds are portrayed as pests or lesser beings. I'd like to see a society of Kobolds that are as culturally and technologically advanced as the other races around them.
>>47170668
Dogs or little sprites.
Furfags corrupted them to further accomadate their obsessive feitsh.
>>47171114
So basically another flavor of halflings?
>>47171234
They would have to be different enough from Halflings to distinguish them as a culture and a potential PC race.
>>47167937
>Races of the Dragon
thx m80
>>47171114
The book Midgard Heros 5e has that kinda stuff in it. It is a slightly different setting though. It's not published by WotC. This anon here>>47159726
posted how to find a pdf.
>>47170882
I wouldn't go that specific look, but I like the idea of them having a form that could be mistaken for dog like in bad lighting
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>>47171234
Let's start simply. Where do they live and what is their overall cultural aesthetic?
>>47170668
Depends on the setting. I hate to say that, but it's true. Default for most settings after 3e D&D seems to be lizard-like, but dog-like is still popular (kobolds ate my baby), and some even go with rat-like (Warcraft)
>>47171114
I've got something kinda like that in a setting I'm working on. Thanks to needing less food per head and being able to eat a wider variety of stuff, there's a large and organized kobold population inhabiting the great desert and the surrounding coasts (think north africa, environment-wise). While they used to be a bunch of small kingdoms, a self-styled "emperor" recently (~60 years ago) started taking over and uniting a large number of them. Tech-wise, they're roughly even with the more normal races on the northern continent, but culturally they are quite distinct.
>>47159058
How come I'm only now hearing of this game.
Trying to get gooder at drawing kobolds, but limited to Drawing on phone.
Any advice to help me get gud?
>>47172976
Get a sketchbook, phones are shit
>>47173191
Because my job doesn't accept pencil, i only own pens, will that be to much of a problem?
>>47173406
>Because my job doesn't accept pencil
Buy one from the store, FFS.
>>47173406
Pencils are like 10c each
also
>>>/ic/1579290
>>47171114
Thats like asking for an aboleth society where they arent complete twats and use the same technolodgy like the other races.
>>47169386
but swords aren't people anon, it don't count.
>>47171422
the original Midgard Campaign Setting book talks a lot more about the setting and the kobolds place in it. Midgard Heroes really is only full of rules to run the setting in 5e.
All I can say for finding it is look for a torrent, as I have yet to find a direct download link that still works and aint a scam. Of course could ask for it in the 7chan request thread.
>>47171627
it was a bit popular for a short while, I think mostly because you could get tf2 hats playing the game. then dropped out of relevance due to it's pay to play system IIRC
>>47174673
I googled "heroes of midguard 7chan" and the link in the 7chan thread worked fine with no payment.
>>47171627
It's is (mostly was) a F2P RPG with Legend of Zelda style gameplay and one of the most adorable art styles in all of recent gaming. It never got super popular because there was always this dearth of content that was never really rectified over the run of the game, and the way the F2P system was set up didn't do it any favors to win over the hardcore crowd.
>>47176126
Those some proper kobolds
>>47175020
reread what I said. Heroes of Midgard gives you stats for 5e, but not any sort of setting information in depth. It is only 30 pages
Midgard Campaign Setting for Pathfinder on the other hand is the original book and thus contains all the fluff. I couldn't find it via google search and I had it from years ago already. Can ask 7chan's request thread for a copy if you want the fluff and not just the stats for 5th edition.
Also should be noted that their kobolds have a slight stat change in Midgard for Pathfinder. -4 str, +4 dex, -2 con.
>>47176964
Oops, sorry for that.
Thanks for clearing that up for me.
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>>47176126
Yeah I love cutebolds or fun-sized Dragonborn as much as the next guy but THESE are Kobolds. Is there any more?
>>47176458
I actually went and looked throughfuraffinitytrying to find not-furry-art renditions of kobolds. Most that I saw where unfortunately quite furry (thank god the explicit images require you to register), but some were done well.
>>47177018
>looking for non furry
>on furaffinity
>>47177565
20 images out of 10 pages of 48 results each (With the most common form of furshit, porn, omitted). 4.2% useful. Literally worse than as predicted by Sturgeon's law. Would probably be less than 1% with the porn included.
Why did I do it? I have no fucking idea.
>>47163516
friend who are you and how do i throw money at you for art
>>47178219
you rang?also, if you want https://www.tumblr.com/blog/bolloxtothat
>>47179201
fugg i meantbolloxtothat.tumblr.com/
>>47138588
I always thought a race that spends all their time mining having -4 Str was weird but maybe justifiable with them being extra small (with that Slender Build trait in the Races of the Dragon errata).
It's not cowardly to run away when everything is 3x your size.
I am very okay with MacGyver-bolds.
Had a concept for kobolds. Just an idea, and not meant to intend anything.
Also posting a sprite I made earlier today.
>>47180611
Are you sure those aren't just green kangaroos?
>>47180669
Pretty sure green kangaroos would be a bit bigger and also more upright in stance.
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>>47180669
Green wallabies maybe?
>>47180715
Was aiming for a more small dinosaur with sentience sort of deal. In the meantime, I'm just making a normal kobold sprite.
Here they are.
>>47180885
Gay.
>>47169386
>Why, are you planning on getting a kobold egg and raising a tiny breeding pet waifu?
More like battery cage farming. I need to farm souls for a demon.
>>47182066
You cannot sell kobold souls to demons, anon. Every kobold returns to kobold goddess when they die.
>>47182177
I already sold a few kobold souls, so pretty sure this will work with my DM.
>>47182264
Your DM is bad and wrong and you both have bad wrong fun.
>>47182177
>evil bad guy steals the souls of his kobold minions when they die and burns them to power the macguffin, destroying the soul.
>>47184503
is this a real thing?
>>47179702
personally prefer the stat line from Midgard, in fact maybe I will just dump it and a few tidbits of info.
one of my favorite tidbits
>Kobolds are deeply enamored of their tools, and some kobolds spend a great deal of effort to improve them. Mining picks, a mason’s hammer, jeweler’s loup, and even simple items like a kobold’s spear or dagger are all named and cherished. At the same time, kobolds tend to gnaw on tool handles, forget to oil blades, or even pry out inlays or decorative gems to improve them. As a result, most kobold items are entirely distinctive and unlikely to be mistaken for anyone else’s items. Some believe this decorative urge may be a form of defense against theft.
>>47185041
It would be fun to have Kobolds believe in a Shinto-styled animism in which all their tools and cherished objects possess a spirit of their own.
>>47166948
It's a cute concept that goes beyond magical realm.
Kobold sprites!?
>>47187022
Yes please
>>47114000
Colored version here
>>47114167
It's comments like this that make me wonder ifanyone saved the kobold smut I once worked up the courage to write.
>>47188857
we need more kobold smut
>>47188857
What was it?
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>>47188857
>worked up the courage
I do that for a living, you better write some more fucking smut you little bitch
>>47185041
>proper behavior
Got a giggle out of this. I wonder what proper kobold etiquette entails.
>>47188903Cold kobold girl crawling into a guy's sleeping bag to share body heat.
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>>47188942
The proportions seem to make them too big for Kobolds. They're more like Dragonborne.
>>47190740that was my favorite
>>47190740
Got a link?
>>47191334
It was only one part long if i remember correctly. But It was definitely cute lewd
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>>47188857
I recall a story like that
I scoured the few archives left that have covered /tg/ at one point. I must say, that story is very popular for the screencap being requested yet no one ever seems to be able to supply it.
>>47193282
Sadly, I'm not even sure there was a screencap
>>47171219
I don't think you comprehend the irony of your statement.
Running a Viking+Cthulhuian campaign. Come to the rescue of a wounded dragon who is against a Dark One's lieutenant. The dragon dies, but with some very lucky rolls we save her last egg (others were being used as sacrifices) and a single kobold servant. No story progression on the egg thus far, but the kobold has become a npc "mascot" and we've even gotten him training and some combat experience. Due to his 5E creation he is lucky and fuck me if he isn't. At one point he last-hit 5 orcs after we bled them to minimum hp.
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>>47193479
Too sad for words.
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>>47191334
Is this it?
http://pastebin.com/0LXkJU5y
>>47195953
Not sure, seems kind of short.
>>47196518
like your penis.
