Sing The Goblin Song - A Look At Golarion's Goblins

[Apupunchau]

Pathfinder goblins are pretty much the iconic monster of Golarion. Between short adventures revolving around them, goblin plush dolls, and goblins on tons of promotional material it seems like the folks at Paizo really love those little buggers. But Golarion’s goblins are not well loved by all and I thought today I’d take a delve into some things about gobbos that people love and hate. Maybe I’ll even touch on somethings not everyone knows about goblins.

Do you like pathfinder’s goblins? Why or why not? Have you used goblins in your campaigns before? How have you presented them to your players? Have played a goblin PC? Have you played one that isn’t evil?

[Noir le Lotus]

I quite like Golarion's goblins.

They make me think of Raving Rabbids applied to a realistic world : at first they seem silly and funny but when you look more sriously, you realize that they can very dangerous for ordinary people (and themselves).

[dragonhunterq]

They are growing on me. Initially the artwork really put me off the setting to the point of not buying the rule book.

Not quite a fan yet...

[Tacticslion]

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[Cole Deschain]

They're... pretty much my favorite Golarion retread of a D&D monster. They're pathetic, funny, scary, dangerous, crazy and crafty, all at once.

[Apupunchau]

I've never played Raving Rabbids so I'll just have to take your word for it. I like that there are some many ways to go with them as well. If you're looking for a little comedic fun you can have it. If you want a cunning and vicious enemy you can have that too. It all depends on which aspect of goblins you want to bring to the forefront.

[Hythlodeus]

They're what brought me to switch to Pathfinder instead of using all of my 3.5 books until eternity

[Aelreth]

I played a Chaotic Good Goblin Rogue once. My previous character had died while the party was in a dungeon, fighting goblins, so to make things easier the GM let me make a goblin that the party found tied up while they were still in the dungeon. The party paladin did detect evil, found I was not evil, so they released me and I decided to follow around the nice Mr. Paladin for saving me. I made sure to talk in a weird goblin way, and was generally a very eccentric crazy person, do to being a crazy little goblin. Was one of the funnest and funniest characters I have ever played.