Glad to hear!
I actually worried about you might go for the drastically change, since the amount of work behind it might burn you out. I thought making race work like starting class in souls games is good enough--you start with various stats/gears, but nothing long-lasting. That way you can save a lot of time and energy for something else. But unique dialoge options is great! It will surely enhance the role-playing experience, and replayability! Please don't overwork yourself!
Also it's interesting cause I'm not a huge kobold fan but I still picked kobold on instinct. Maybe there's not enough games featuring kobold as playable races so everyone dumped their favorate race and go for cute kobo? XD