Personally I prefer the old-school dog-type kobolds (descended from dragons? Really?!), but I do love the little bastards nonetheless. Go forth, weak, squishy, much-maligned things! Go forth and do all the stuff the Big People do!
by explorers you mean trap finders, and by trap finders you mean the little things you throw down the hall way when you run out of rouges to set the traps off for you!