My dm ran the first session of her Jade Regeant campain on saturday, and it was alot of fun, however, I was wondering how many other groups had the kind of emotional impact I did in the game after having run we be goblins. Please note we have only made it part way through the adventure (to be described in a spoiler tag bellow) so please try to avoid further spoilters. I just felt like I needed to share the experience I had with it.
So I have played through, and also run We be goblins. And I absolutely loved it. It was alot of fun, and it turns out, I got emotionally attached to the characters, and consequently to the licktoad tribe.
So on saturday my dm ran the first session of Jade Regent and we got through the encounter at the Goblin village. And I was seriously sad at the state of the Licktoad Tribe when we arrived. And while we did make an initial attempt at diplomacy, the only character that could speak goblin had a poor charisma and no social skills. So we inevitably fought the goblins of the tribe after they attacked us, and in turn, killed them, presumably all of them (again we only got through the encounter at the village, I dont know if there is or isnt more with the licktoads).
My character mind you would have had no issue taking down the goblins, as a paladin whose group even tried to negotiate with these creatures who had been attacking and killing travelers near sandpoint, he certainly would see the justice in putting them down. But as a player I was just devastated at the sad image of the run down goblin tribe fighting to the last to protect what was left of their village. It was literally gutwrenching for me, and I was apparently visably upset when we brought down cheif gutwad.
I dont even know where im going with this, I just wanted to share my experience with the advneture. And also Kudoes to Paizo for making a long time rpger get emotional over killing goblins after all these years. Seriously, well done.
Well, not all of the goblins, since Reta, Chuffy, Poog and Mogmurch return in We be Goblins, Too!, due out in a few months.
My players were curious where the goblin "heroes" were in the fight, too. Although they may have been more concerned with Squealy Nord's fate.