Goblin#
Ugly? Friend, my great-great-grandmother was a daemune. You should hear what she'd have said about you.
Goblins are half a human's height, sharp-tongued and, they'll tell you, descended from the daemunai. They start with intelligence and charisma 12, and Narsis is the only city that lets them feel at home.
How they live#
Most people judge a goblin by their mottled skin and crooked features, then by their attitude, and goblins rarely give them a reason to change their minds. They have children fast and save almost nothing, so a goblin quarter swings between feast and famine.
- Temper
- Violent when pushed. In hard times they turn on whoever is nearest, kin included.
- Leaving
- When a city turns bad they leave as warbands behind whoever is strongest.
- Money
- Spend whatever they have.
- Crowds
- Like some room around them.
- Tongue
- Goblin, spoken from birth and known perfectly, besides common.
- Children
- Only with other goblins.
What others say#
Hire a goblin and you get the job done and a story you'll be paying for afterward.
They're not as stupid as they want you to think. Count your fingers after you shake hands.
Where they live#
How goblins feel about settling in each of Sedia’s provinces. Each links to the province’s page, and Home Province covers what it takes to become a citizen of one.
Body and blood#
- Era
- The under-races (About 1,000 BB)
- Lifespan
- Comes of age at 18 and can live to 100
- Height
- 2 to 4 feet
- Weight
- 70 to 80 pounds
- Genders
- Female (6 in 10) and male (4 in 10)
- Favored stats
- Charisma and intelligence (the game's race menu lists these; they don't change your scores)
Playing a goblin#
Any race can take any class. These are the ones goblins start closest to, with the race’s starting score in each of the class’s two stats.
Priest
Charisma and intelligence, both 12, are exactly a priest's two stats.
Gravedigger
The same two stats the other way around, and goblins have no fear of the dead.
Mageling
Intelligence 12 leads, and nobody expects the goblin to be the one casting.
Feast or famine
The goblin quarter of Narsis is one bad harvest from starving, and its warbands are already working out whose granary is nearest. The party can feed them, stop them or profit from it.
Names#
Short and squeaky, with doubled letters and endings like -ik, -ix and -azz. Gribix Mudnose, Snik Wartchin, Rikazz Gutterlip.
