How many toes, and fingers, does a Goblin have in Golarion?
Seems like a silly question, but if you look at the official art the numbers often vary. The goblins on the Bestiary's cover all have 5 toes, but then if you look at the Goblin's actual entry in the book the image there only has 4. Meanwhile in the art for the Condition Cards, and the official plush toy, the goblins only have 3 toes. Fingers also vary between 4 and 5 depending on the artist.
So is there an official answer on this? Or perhaps the number of appendages vary from goblin to goblin? What are your thoughts, or explanation?
And if anyone's wondering why I care so much, I'm mostly just curious, but I'm also currently working on a image for Wayfinder #8 and I'd like to make my count accurate.
Considering how beloved Goblins are to the setting it would be great to get a official answer!
I thought I was the only one who wondered about the number of digits on a few critters!
As for goblins, I would say the number of digits they have varies as a result of their common worship of Lamashtu.
goblins have one toe.... what you are looking at on the bottom of the goblin? Those aren't toes.....
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Well, here's what I sing to my son:
This little goblin went to the market,
This little goblin had a dogslicer,
This little goblin hid in the closet,
This little goblin hid in the oven,
And this little goblin rode Squealy Nord Wheee Wheee Wheee all the way home!
So five.
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The first thing I thought of when I read the message was The Princess and the Goblin by George McDonald (old time bedtime reading when I was a kid).
The goblins in that story had no toes. In a scene where they discuss the (strangely deformed) queen of the goblins:
"'Never you mind how it was. She didn't know I saw them. And what do you think! - they had toes!'
'Toes! What's that?'
'You may well ask! I should never have known if I had not seen the queen's feet. just imagine! the ends of her feet were split up into five or six thin pieces!'
'Oh, horrid! How could the king have fallen in love with her?'
'You forget that she wore shoes. That is just why she wore them. That is why all the men, and women too, upstairs wear shoes. They can't bear the sight of their own feet without them."
These are more like (nasty) dwarves or gnomes than PF goblins.
Maybe goblin feet are like hydras - every time you cut a toe off, two grow back. :P
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How many toes, and fingers, does a Goblin have in Golarion?
One fewer than he had before he discovered the fireworks cache.
Thanks for the replies, not quite the answers I was looking for, but entertaining nonetheless!
My theory is that it has something to do with random drops.
BTW I finished the image I was working on for Wayfinder #8, and sent it in earlier this week. It should be appearing beside the foreword near the front of the issue. Be sure to download Wayfinder, for free, from the paizo store. Issue #8 should be available in the next month or so.