Goblins are wild Fey obsessed with fire and destruction, but perversely gifted with drive and intellect. They occasionally besiege towns with mechanical contraptions that could only be the product of a diseased intellect. They have great respect for craftsmanship, however, and a...
Share your gobbos-but-not-gobbos with me. Let’s all be hacks together.
I like that. It captures what makes them goblins, to my thinking. “A distorted echo of humanity” is a wonderful and incisive way to put it. They’re a dark mirror for humans, but a funhouse dark mirror. They’re an inherently unsustainable, malefic society of gross little fuckers. A bit like us, just moreso. A whole society of the kind of imp that usually sits on the shoulder of a villain, whispering madness and glee in their ears.
I like that. It captures what makes them goblins, to my thinking. “A distorted echo of humanity” is a wonderful and incisive way to put it. They’re a dark mirror for humans, but a funhouse dark mirror. They’re an inherently unsustainable, malefic society of gross little fuckers. A bit like us, just moreso. A whole society of the kind of imp that usually sits on the shoulder of a villain, whispering madness and glee in their ears.