02-25-2018, 11:21 PM | #21 |
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Re: Goblins
FWIW, I liked that TFT didn't have kobolds, especially not D&D-style kobolds, which aren't much like actual kobolds.
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02-26-2018, 11:20 AM | #22 | |
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02-26-2018, 07:25 PM | #23 |
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Re: Goblins
One of the more intriguing variants on Orcs I read was the Harn take on the "gargun." It's well worth a read if you have the time.
In fact, I found it so intriguing, I used it once in a campaign, in which Goblins, Hobgoblins, Orcs, and a pseudo Uruk-Hai group that I just gave up and named "Fomorians" were all different forms to the egg-laying, Tolkien-esque, Gargun hordes. It worked pretty well, and was surprisingly challenging for the players to wrap their heads around. But I digress... Another goblin-like creature that I ran across in what I seem to remember was a Sci-Fi novel (which alas, I can no longer recall the title or author of), was a little green, pointy-eared, fella from a high gravity planet, that could literally toss Humans around like matchsticks. He also used a sword with devastating results, as I recall... I think having different variations on a theme is well worth doing, and would love to see lots of variants on these things. But I will totally agree with Skarg that if we have Kobolds, let's not have them be blue skinned dogs! (I remember that in some game (was it Swords and Sorcery?), SPI had Kobolds that were some kind of earth creature, not unlike a small, less capable Earth Elemental.) |
02-26-2018, 07:50 PM | #24 |
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Re: Goblins
Kobolds should be blue however, that is the source of the lovely colour Cobalt Blue. They should not be dogs though.
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02-26-2018, 08:15 PM | #25 |
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02-27-2018, 06:51 AM | #26 |
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Re: Goblins
Mine are lowest-ish on the dragonkin pecking order. FWYW. True Dragon-->Lindorm-->half-dragon-->lizardfolk (ešlahrogn)-->kobold
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02-27-2018, 06:59 AM | #27 |
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The words are all related. Cobalt arsenide ores being named for kobalds for the way they mess up the smelting of ores they curse (by being present), and being used in the production of the cobalt aluminum oxide ceramic colorant that is the original cobalt blue.
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02-27-2018, 01:11 PM | #28 |
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Re: Goblins
Besides, in a fantasy world Cobalt Blue paint is extracted from actual Kobolds. It's why being an artist is an adventuring occupation.
I do think that if TFT includes Kobolds they should be distinct to D&D Kobolds, not that I will scream if they are not included. I like T&T's frog-like goblins as well as those from Labyrinth and The Hobbit, at least three different takes on the "same" creature. Let TFT develop its own flavors. |
02-28-2018, 12:06 AM | #29 |
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(My comment was a joke.)
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03-01-2018, 01:17 PM | #30 |
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Adventure title/seed: The Kobold Blues.
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