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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riley" data-source="post: 9533839" data-attributes="member: 12870">I dunno; I agree it could be ‘change for change’s sake’, but while it does go against established lore, I see some opportunities in it.First, it creates a clearer narrative distinction between monster humanoid species. It’s good to have something to strongly distinguish goblins from kobolds, from orcs, and from gnolls. In AD&D, they were all just different species of monsters to kill because they were evil. Since then, each has gained stronger distinctive backstory.And perhaps it’s just because I had Ridley Scott’s Legend on recently, butI can see some real narrative/story building inspiration from goblins as (dark) fey.I’d look to tie fey goblinoids to Wolfgang Baur’s shadow fey.To be more specific, I’m looking for narratives for starting my 12-yr old son’s first adventure. And I’m thinking about the sunless citadel. This fey tie seems a great way to tie together the evil druid, the goblins, and the twig blights.Throwing in a lot of color about a shadowy blight upon the land, it seems far easier to justify an adventure into the sunless citadel, and to justify battling against the goblins as dangerous enemies presenting a serious threat to local civilization. It also clearly distinguishes them from the less dangerous/threatening kobolds of that adventure.(And we are free to ignore any monster changes which do not inspire us.)</blockquote>