I should playtest some of this and see if I can knock it into more of an actual shape.

Thanks for listening :)

Edit: no, I couldn't leave it there ;)

Kinda the point of the kobold thing is that it's those meaningless fights that weren't important or significant that can leave you with a permanent injury. Combat is dangerous!

Agree completely about the lvl 20 shiny. What was he doing to get all that xp? Because it wasn't combat for sure.

I think a possible side-effect of making combat more "real" is that players stop wanting to do it so much, because it's more risky. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing.