• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    1 day ago

    In my pandemic game, goblins were described as sort of perpetual teenagers. Some of them could be really smart, but a lot of them were impulsive, prone to going along with the group, and being kind of cruel.

    They found a pack of goblins that had robbed some travelers… to steal their concert tickets. Most of them scattered, but they caught up with one. The monk decided not to punch this small humanoid in the face and instead asked “wtf are you all doing?”

    The goblin told them they wanted to go to the show. the show! everyone’s going to the show! (The show turned out to be put on by an evil warlock, and the players had to intervene to stop the bands from summoning a lord of pandemonium into the world. Everyone loves a battle of the bands)

    The players essentially adopted this goblin, Windy, for the rest of the campaign. Windy learned to play drums and flute, and I think they eventually got them enrolled in wizard school.

  • NielsBohron@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    This is why you play Pathfinder, where the PC’s can be the traditional “monstrous” races. It seems a lot more like slavery or kidnapping when there are PC’s with the same ancestry

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      4 days ago

      You can be goblins, orcs, minotaurs, in 5e

      That still doesn’t stop the party of cutting them down before speaking with them… Twice in a row… With both a goblin and half orc in the party…