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So I think my favorite Goblin moment came from a Cleric in my game. The party was sailing up a river and when they made camp for the night they were attacked by goblins. (standard little setup but a great way to teach them that keeping watch is important...but i digress) so anyway, our cleric interrogated the last goblin and instead of executing him...made him a little robe, renamed him Jethro, and converted him to his religion so he now has a little pupil he's teaching
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omg, my character did almost the same thing (Magic-User/Druid) going through 'Keep on the Borderlands', invaded the kobold lair, killed most of the adult males (and some females) and the remaining females and young ones were cowering and hissing at us. I said we would spare them if one of them would serve 'us' (I said us but I really meant me). The other players really did not care so I got me a little kobold helper who I treated well and became very loyal to me.
Imagine if that Kobold is secretly plotting against you for attacking his people and he becomes the main villian for like 2 campaigns.
This setup always confuses me as a DM. Wouldn't seeing adventurers kill your friends and family/comrades, make you hate them. Serving them afterwards would be purely based on the need to survive. Unless goblins and such have the mentality of canines and other beasts, where establishing your dominance is what decides the outcome.
Troglodytes are my favourite "little guys". My players always enjoy when I bring them in. I use them as extremely fickle and religious creatures that have a very complex naming system. One might be named Trog. Another will be Trog. Their leader might be called Trog. It's a beautiful culture.
I love me some Troglodytes, I feel like theyre the Hobbits of my world, they just wanna chill in the Underdark but are constantly being enslaved
I've heard of Trog! He's my favorite Trog!
Ryan Gaskin and his cousin might be named bob, its amazing really
Ryan Gaskin i hope they are all named trog but one is named steve or brian or something like that.
Hoi I'm Trog, and this is my friend Trog.
Hoi I'm Trog, and this is my friend Trog.
Hoi I'm Trog, and don't forget to greet my friend!
Hi I'm bob.
I have no regrets.
The best PC I've ever made was a 2 1/2 ft tall Bullywug. Who is a champion pit fighter (Monk) for his tribe. He eventually renamed himself Prince Charles "The Charming" After becoming champion he took a vow of silence until he's defeated in hand to hand combat. Only speaking through flexing his muscles. It made for an incredibly funny game and I loved to role play him.
I sometimes think my party is worse than most of the enemies they face, our fighter paralysed a bullywug and dragged it through the swamp with him until it died from blood loss, our monk grappled an orc and surplexed it into a campfire and our paladin tore the intestines out of a dead body and used them to choke a cultist.
+Aaron Mulleady Hahahahahah this is so funny, lol, a fucking paladin doing that, hahahahaha.
+CaRaDaGaiTa I AM NOW BLACKGUARD!!
Once as a mul fighter I ripped the head off a living goblin and wore it on my belt as a fashion statement until it rotted away.
It sounds epic though. That suplex into a campfire made me laugh :')
My party fed a captured goblin the sliced up remains of their friends and always leaves any captured goblins naked and tied up to the nearest tree or piece of furniture
When talking about the alignment thing, I actually created a group of goblins who have a good alignment. This was caused when their Goblin Hero, Ishnakh, let the defeated humans retreat after a major battle in the world history. This led to his execution by the Hobgoblin leader as he beleive they should have wiped them out. So, the goblins were angered and some left, creating a splinter group called The Followers of Ishnakh that were helped by the new human Kingdom in the future since they had allowed them to live after the battle. However, the other group of the classic evil goblins had attacked the humans later, so distrust came between the two. Though, the good goblins will still help and even send some of their own kind to assist the players.
I thought this would be cool as it offers a new twist on yor classic goblin and allows the player to, like you talked about in the video, actually take one to be a party member.
I've played a goblin character who was a rogue and something else... it was a long time ago. Who road a wolf, and gave zero shits about other goblins. He would go in to locations and steal items for the highest bidder. He could disguise himself by removing his obviously not so gobliny armor, and walk in to goblin camps and do what he had to do and leave. It was damn hilarious out shining the elf at clever tactiks. :3
We have a party member and her boyfriend who always wants to try negotiating first and has kept our more aggressive players in check and it makes the games so much more fun
I was thinking of a one-shot campaign where the PCs would play as a few respected kobolds in a small colony. The dwarven city they scavenged from would come under attack and it'd be up to them to save the day!
Ow.... I can see an Evil Idea..... Yes Very Evil..... The Oblex and the "Typical" Goblin encounter.... The Adventurers are hired to rescue the children that have been Kidnapped by the Local Goblin tribe.... Except.. the Children were Rescued by the Goblins after the Townspeople where Replaced/Consumed by the Oblex.....
WarriorTRZ I love this idea and I’m tucking it away for a later day
For more fun you could also replace the Oblex with Doppelgangers and other of the like....
"What would Drizzt do?" I just started reading that series!
Did you read 'The Dark Elf' or 'Icewind Dale Trilogy' first?
"The Dark Elf" first. I'm on streams of silver now. my fifth book
The Dark Elf and Icewind Dale Trilogies are absolutely amazing.
my most recent 5e character is a bullywug Bard that plays the blues on an enchanted banjo.
I find it funny goblins always end up as lil green terrors with a splash of humor. In the AD&D Monstrous Manual the description says they range from yellow through any shade of orange to a deep red. So ive always made my goblins red weather in the minds eye or painted red as minis. I read this when i was 12 and have always stuck to that description.
there are tinker goblins that are red or orange
One of my favourite characters of my first campaign of D&D was a little goblin called Droop. He was just supposed to be some terribly cowardly goblin the bugbears used to entertain them by dancing and juggling, but our tiefling bard just took a shine to him and brought him along for the rest of the campaign, getting him to fight alongside us. He started by having disadvantage on every attack because he was so scared but wound up being a Paladin of Devotion in the end and absolutely MVPed a fight against a vampire.
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For the comedy role, I once played an ogre with essentially no intelligence and a really deep voice that was just constantly confused and upset that the party were attacking him.
"Heeey, why are you doing that? That huurts!" It was a fun but fairly easy fight and the Players had some good lives with a single gnome barbarian rage-climbing on its back while the ogre tried to hit him with it's club, hitting itself in the process.
It's never a good idea to go inside the Kobold's den blindly. Had a cleric learn that the hard way in a game I played in. Climbing up a chute he met the invention of one of their brightest. K'Kling's k'klang. And promptly had a spiked, cast-iron call dropped down on him. I just dragged him out afterwards. The kobolds had struck a victory that day.
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JIM! In LOVE with your ecological suggestions / breakdown of the Kobolds, and the enchanced tactics. Goblins too; great to have in the DM repretoire.
I was dming the Lost Mines of Phandelver campaign, and you guys helped me stretch put the goblin ambush. The goblins were jumping from tree to tree, picking off the players. It was great!
In my world, Goblins are about as bright as humans, but still very stigmatized. It varies from town to town, how well the people there treat them, but overall, Goblins are part of the civilized world.
This was very insightful. Im new to DnD and working on a campaign that involves a tribe of Goblin spell casters that steal a demonic dagger from the heroes to revive their dead chieftain through some kind of necromantic ritual.
3:52 DMs, I would highly recommend NOT calling the creature currently coming at the party a "swamptapus", unless you enjoy watching your friend group break down into a bunch of tittering teenagers :P
Remember to always test sound out your names before employing them!
Pathfinder Goblins are adorable.
NEVER underestimate a Goblin
Interesting to see how far they've come
I've never had the opportunity to play D&D, but as an avid fantasy nerd and aspiring roleplayer I've of course come up with several characters I'd want to play.
One being a city dwelling goblin thief. I've always liked the idea of monsters adapting into urban environments, like Ankh Morpork in the Discworld series.
I'd basically play as Styx from Styx: Master of shadows. Sneak around, steal stuff, poison people, cut a few throats. Goblins are just cool.
My half-elf rogue had the best time interrogating pants and pantsless two. Kobolds are like children.
Bullywugs are my new favorite low level monsters. Just ran a climactic encounter with King Kroark, a bullywug sorcerer (who loves to cast jump of course) and a few random bullywugs and toad knights (bullywugs riding giant toads). Was a metric fuck ton of fun and then some.
I recently ran an informal game for some new players, which ended up an interesting experiment. There were three of them, and they managed to run the gamut of new player stereotypes. Along the way, they were ambushed by a pack of goblins, which they butchered, and when the last one surrendered in Goblin, throwing his hands up, the over-the-top player immediately executed them. So much for an interrogation.
In the words of my dm, "Bep's tribe isn't evil, it isnt their fault that farmer had free range chickens instead of locking them up"
Goblin Slayer utterly disagrees with mercy wasted on goblins.
I appreciate and thoroughly enjoy your content. My players appreciate it a little less when goblins are the nasty lil buggers they are meant to be. Thank you kindly for the inspiration.
Round about 6-7m there's a quiet fart like buzzing going on.
Just used a small group of Goblins in the 1st adventure of a campaign. A fighter or Barbarian and the cleric had to rescue the blacksmith's daughter from a small group of goblins I had abducted her. We added a Monk the the party and I am going to have an NPC Bard travel with them to the next town to translate their deeds into song. Now I'm thinking about hitting the on the road with a band of goblins riding wargs... This should be fun!
My favorite moment with goblins was when my druid hit one over the head with a shalaelie spell and killed the one hit, sent one flying to his doom, crushed one with a long, and then crited on the last one. My DM look at me with the look of what in Bolas' just happend.
bullywugs are just adorable >_
One of my favorite fight that involved goblins was one where my character grabbed the leader of a group of 6 and I proceeded to pick him up and run with him
Kobolds on their own are only tier one but if you given them a magic tome or two about magical traps then that wizard better have dispel ready or things will go south when they swagger into the warren thinking it will be an easy battle.
In my campaign Kobolds used a captured drake as a trap. Kobolds are great for trapsetting ambush encounters.
One of my party members, who was captured, jumped into the bottom of a latrine to escape an ogre that he had made a pass at.
Kobold Komandos with flaming arrows and bottles of Acid.
Angels arent always good theyre the alignment of their god.
I use law and chaos as the cosmic objective moral points
I'm planning to have my players end up in a mandolin invoked city attack where a bunch of goblins, kobolds, and bullywugs attack but there's a undead bug bear, pseudo Dragon or something lizard, and something frog all leading the attack, all taking orders from a necromancer known as the black spider
Bullywugs....a classic, experienced in the myrkul , mere of the deadmen dungeon adventure since it is a classic that our pwrty never finidhed...goblins are hack and slash..
But like... the goblins are stealing children... It's hard to argue that hat isn't a bad act and so if im playing any character really id just think "alright these goblins asked for it"
I overuse Troglodytes in my campaigns. I don't know why, but I use them almost as much as goblins.
I personally think the smaller races are shoe horned as the weak beginning guys. They’re perfect for that, but that doesn’t mean they’re weak. Kobolds especially, because I truly think they can be a strong enemy. They’re decently strong in groups, but groups can always get bigger. Groups can have strategic formations. The kobolds are known for their ingenuity and cleverness. They will seperate you, and they will have many many traps set up for you, and they will beat the crap out of you if you invade their warrens. Not only that, but the last kobold won’t run away like a goblin. They’re famous for becoming extremely vicious when cornered, and shouldn’t be underestimated. They’re casters, trap setters, and strategists but they’re not put up to their full potential. Like you said, they’re masters of guerilla warfare; yet no one makes their guerilla warfare tactics masterful. Just sup par and pretty stupid.
I want to see that Swamptapus!
I'm DMing a game, and after beating some goblins, they broke one out of the ice he was frozen in, interrogated him, and tied him up and kept him.
Goblin Slayer...
Attacking kobolds and goblins on their home turf should be impossible. They’re small enough that chasing in after them is done on hands and knees. Their tunnels are going to include S curves to detonate fireballs and bounce lightning bolts. Both races are going to keep two or three equipped with missile weapons just for picking off anyone not in armor.
I wrote an encounter called the Goblin Tollbooth that uses a 10’ pit in front of a 10’ tower, five goblins and three wolves that wipes a 5th level party every time. The only way to win the encounter is to retreat from it. If the PCs attack, wipe them.
I'm trying to homebrew a space setting
So far I have Cyberpunk, Revolutionary French goblins
Kobolds who are a mixture of Cardassians and the banking goblins from Harry Potter
And Dwarves inspired by Prussia's North German Confederation
343burninglegion Prussian Dwarfs is a great concept!
Prussian Dwarves is how I have them in my campaign as well. Players have learned to have their papers in order and updated if they need to travel through dwarvish territory, and they’ve learned how different dwarvish humor is - Dwarf 1: “How can you tell when there are elves nearby? You are in a forest.” Dwarf 2: “Your wit overwhelms me.”
In my world the goblin hord is under control by a green hag
In my world the goblin horde is under control by me. (Tiefling Sorcerer)
ok now just know your entire army can be destroyed by one fireball ;D
I've been thinking a lot about alignment for my upcoming (first) D&D game. I thought about going the 'it's just their (tribal) way of life' route, but that seems to pertain more to chaos than to good/evil. And since the outer planes make it clear that evil and good are actual laws of the universe and not just a made up construct like it is in the real world for us humans, I got to thinking what would it mean to be good or be evil. And that's not an easy question. Because even creatures of 'good' alignment, can do evil things, if they feel like they have no choice or emotion overwhelms. And similarly, creatures of 'evil' alignment should do good things, if they feel like they have no choice, or emotions overwhelm them. So, the thing that I've settled on. Is that 'good' aligned people enjoy or value the act of helping others, while 'evil' aligned people enjoy or value the act of harming others. And of course, there are evil individuals in good aligned societies and good aligned people in evil societies. But the alignment in the MM and PHB would be the norm for those peoples.
How about a gnome artificer whose construct is a giant battle suit. The gnome drives while his goblin partner moves around and throughout the body of the suit making repairs and the other partner, a kobold, rides on the outside of the suit with a spear to defend the blind spots of this suit from flanking and whatnot. I emphasize the word partner because these three will act like they absolutely hate each other but towards the end of the campaign they’ll admit they actually like each other and are best friends. There would have to be a very good backstory and reason for why they’re partners but it could be done. Some details would have to include how big the mech is for the goblin to be able to move around inside it. I feel like it would have to be a bit taller than a Goliath based on the size of the gnome and the goblin and would this be overpowered or underpowered or maybe it’s totally balanced but probably not.
I had a goblin just knock one guy out with a trap by activating it hitting him like 2 times and the goblin downed him as he ran away
when youre DMing and youre giving signs or hints for the players for what to expect further ahead you easily leave a trace or trail basically the players know whats ahead instead of suspecting whats ahead wich takes alot of the fun out of it but leaving hints might be necessary if the party is ill equipped to face the challenges ahead so how do you make it more of something to suspect and not something that obviously will be ahead
spels47 I try to be as accurate in my descriptions without giving away specific game information. For example: An ogre is terrorizing a roadside inn - victims of the attack might describe seeing a largish humanoid or remember being casually tossed about like a child's plaything, the party's tracker will notice large booted footprints or crushed grasses and undergrowth, and they will find gnawed bones and bits of debris from its last meal. All these clues point towards a large, meat-eating humanoid but I will never call it an ogre unless a PC has direct experience with ogres or they use magic to get clearer answers.
It's up to the DM to strike a balance between clarity of information and uncertainty of the outcome of what the players do with that info. They can try to get more accurate info, but doing so will require expending some resource even if it's just time spent examining a clue.
So my very first adventure we were ambushed by a group of goblins. So we kill most of them and we were interrogating one.
So the fighter of our group had a goblin head and and when the goblin wouldn't talk he hit him with it. He talked after that.
Kobolds are never used as fodder though, they are always the infamous Tucker's kobolds variety, judging by what I read around is the same everywhere. Goblins are a waste of time.
Can you do an episode on mundane weapons?
We always gave people the option to join an army of random people if they give up willingly, one of my characters hated this however
Goblins are only good for taking a break from heavy stuff if your GM hasn't watched goblin slayer
I want to get 20 of each lol
does anyone know any good fantasy literature that has goblins as a big problem (other than the obvious tolkien stuff)?
God damn alignment apologists man
Sooo a bullywug is like mini predators almost?
swamptupus, roctopus, what's next?
I play that kobolds are a bit smarter than goblins, who are pretty stupid unless well led. Bullywugs are even more stupid.
At this point, it might be a little racist that we don’t have like, a halfling mob or a gnome mob. Well actually, there are like, the halflings from eberron who ride those raptors. Now, we just need gnome mobs.
I am currently creating a goblin player character for a campaign. Any suggestions?
Did I miss the part about Bullywugs?
I think that bullywugs are underused, in my opinions.
I think best interpretation of goblins i saw so far was the goblin slayer manga closely followed by goblins web comic :P
D&D Comedy: "lone surviving goblin being tortured by a band of adventurers covered head to toe in blood and guts of that goblin's family"... "Haha he speaks funny" top of comedy gold. Especially presented as juxtaposition to "some cultists" doing gruesome things to lighten up the mood.
I'm not being outraged or anything, just bemused by complete lack of self awareness here.
It's not funny what you are doing to the goblin, the comedy comes from watching a friend of yours use a funny voice and act like a caught rabbit. It's you looking on OOC that adds humour to that scenario.
Basically you really can't play npc like you would a player if I was dm I'd make all the npc weak but they would be a dozen archers of goblins hiding with diseased arrows would make sense and all of them would be diseased.
As since goblins are well known scavengers and getting a lot dirty.
We interogated a Goblin and at the end we hung him upside down on a tree.To this day he still hangs there.So when we came to the camp we ended up stirring up a riot against the bugbear by introducing communism into their society.They were unsatisfied with their work conditions so we read from the Manifesto and they listened.
It is strange that my fav Creature has always been the Kobolds, I even managed to get a GM to allow me to roll one as a sorcerer affter my wizard was unceremoniously captured and eaten by them due to stupid actions by are thief she became my fav and was my first to go all the way to lvl cap...O,o she was terrifying crowd control lock down and just torment foes...with a heavy mace because sometimes clubbing a guy who cant fight back due to lock down and control spells is fun
D&D... lulz
So I think my favorite Goblin moment came from a Cleric in my game. The party was sailing up a river and when they made camp for the night they were attacked by goblins. (standard little setup but a great way to teach them that keeping watch is important...but i digress) so anyway, our cleric interrogated the last goblin and instead of executing him...made him a little robe, renamed him Jethro, and converted him to his religion so he now has a little pupil he's teaching
haha! I made a Paladin in my last campaign and everyone kept telling me that I cannot just murder Goblins if they're not doing anything harmful since that wouldn't be LG so I found one being beaten up and killed the Bugbears and took in the goblin. My team hated him since he would just non-stop roll crits and they tried to kill him off a few times but will little luck. Then he fell off a cliff and died -.-