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I was just wondering if the question on whether Dragonwrought Kobolds are true dragons or not have any bearing on whether or not they get age penalties to their physical stats? Please back up your answers with rule quotes and citations.

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No, they do not, and true dragon status has no impact here

Races of the Dragon explicitly states that dragonwrought kobolds do not incur penalties for aging. See the footnote on page 39:

Ability penalties due to aging do not apply to dragonwrought kobolds.

True dragon status affects very few things in the game: Eberron’s sovereign archetypes and dragon psychoses are the only things that I am aware of that care about the distinction. At least a couple of those are very powerful, though, which means it does matter for some.

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    The fact that this is something they explicitly wrote, rather than being a funny twist of the rules, a weird combination of disparate books, as one might expect, kind of frightens me. Though it is nice to be able to answer a question on dragonwrought kobolds without writing not one but two treatises. – KRyan Apr 24 '15 at 20:10