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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 6085104" data-attributes="member: 463">I played Burnt Offerings recently; I remember digging up the floorboards, convinced there must be more goblins in hiding! I guess it worked as a sort of quasi-horror movie type setup - I was certain there must be a significant threat, relative to 1st level PCs, given that a man* was dead in his own home; perhaps a goblin infestation. It took a lot of convincing that there was just one over-fed goblin, and it never made that much sense to me that it could kill a man but leave a child unharmed. Multiple goblins hiding in the floor cavity would have fit with what I expected to happen. *Paizo goblins default to very low damage, usually 1d4 assuming no STR penalty, while a 1st level commoner typically has ca 3-6 hp, since nobody has less than d6 hit dice, may have CON bonus or +3 for Toughness, and you need to be taken to -1 to be dying. The chances of a lone goblin inflicting a one-round kill on a commoner are therefore quite low, and that fits with how the world-fiction is generally presented too, though for some reason goblins seem to be excellent at cut-scene dog murdering. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Personally, if I were converting this to 4e, I'd keep it as a lone goblin, make him a 1st level standard monster - probably a lurker, but I'd take what was handiest from MV or MM. It would not attempt to challenge the party with death but would not have the credibility issue either. BTW playing it I don't recall anything about a dog holding the goblin at bay. AIR the mother came to us and said the child was scared of a monster in the closet and we agreed to check it out, when we got there the father's legs were sticking out of the closet and there was a very well fed goblin who must have been eating for a good while. Somehow the mother didn't mention her husband having been killed... :\</blockquote>

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