D&D General Goblins Eat Pickles???

[TarionzCousin]

The upcoming September set of miniatures from Paizo has as its special extra a goblin village. Among the things found in a goblin village is apparently... a barrel of pickles!

The digitally rendered image below is from the unreleased "Legendary Adventures" set.

Since when are pickles and goblins a thing? Is this supported in previous literature? Is it Paizo-unique?

 

[Sacrosanct]

Of course goblins like pickles. It’s lemons they hate. Everyone knows this. Sheesh

 

[iserith]

Goblins are truly disgusting, scrofulous creatures in my games. That would be a chamber pot.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Goblins are truly disgusting, scrofulous creatures in my games. That would be a chamber pot.

Well, if goblin poo is green, then it DOES look like a chamber pot...

 

[Leatherhead]

This reminds me of a campaign we recently finished. We had a porter known as "The Box Goblin" who ran around wearing an extra-dimensional wooden box of holding, and who had a fondness for pickled foods.

 

[gargoyleking]

Actually, there's a game on Paizo's 2nd ed youtube channel in which one of the characters is a goblin celestoal sorcerer who runs around healing wound with a variety of 'pickle' remedies.


Check out Oblivion Oath.

 

[Umbran]

Since when are pickles and goblins a thing?

Dude, it goes way back before Paizo. "Uncle Pickles" has been a goblin culture hero... geeze, since at least the Complete Book of Humanoids, if not earlier.

 

[Tonguez]

Isn’t that a tub of immature goblin spawn?

 

[not-so-newguy]

Pickles was very tasty

 

[ccs]

Since when are pickles and goblins a thing? Is this supported in previous literature? Is it Paizo-unique?

At least since sometime in early PF1e. Back in 2013 I was a player in a game where my friend was running a Goblin alchemist. He kept trying to capture & pickle the Wizards parrot familiar. Eventually he succeeded.

I'm not sure what he'd been reading (probably whatever accessory book expanded details of goblins - you know, they have them for Tieflings, Vampires, Lycanthropes, etc), but he had to have gotten it from there. I say this because he's simply not creative enough to come up with the pickling thing on his own as a character quirk.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I think your in the wrong branch of threads. As Pathfinder Gobs are different from D&D gobs.

 

[digitalelf]

The very first Paizo AP, in the first book (Rise of the Rune Lords: Burnt Offerings - book 1 of 6), it had an encounter where the goblins were eating pickles stolen from the pantry within their lair. Back then, Paizo products were written for 3.5 D&D.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yup, this is a point where Pathfinder goblins and 5e D&D goblins diverge.

Pathfinder goblins are comic relief with huge round heads that eat anything, especially any human food that they can steal.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Yup, this is a point where Pathfinder goblins and 5e D&D goblins diverge.

Pathfinder goblins are comic relief with huge round heads that eat anything, especially any human food that they can steal.

They're also a core book race. From evil horse & human murdering evil pyromaniacs to cute pickle eating PCs in one edition change

 

[Fanaelialae]

The illustration for the goblin ancestry in the PF2 CRB (pg 46) shows a goblin eating a pickle.

 

[Hriston]

This has been true since 1937 when JRR Tolkien wrote in The Hobbit that the Great Goblin tried to eat Thorin Oakenshield’s head because he thought it was a pickle.

 

[Dausuul]

It's a defense against rogues.

 

[billd91]

Pathfinder goblins are comic relief with huge round heads that eat anything, especially any human food that they can steal.

Well, they're partly comic relief. Burnt Offerings did an awesome job of making goblins a go-to race in Paizo products. They were vibrant, they were funny, but they were also a bit dark as one of the follow-up encounters to the original Sandpoint Swallowtail Festival raid illustrated.

 

[digitalelf]

Pathfinder goblins are comic relief with huge round heads

More football shaped than round really. Think Stewie from Family Guy.

 

[Charlaquin]

From evil horse & human murdering evil pyromaniacs to cute pickle eating PCs in one edition change

My dude, they’ve been both since long before the edition change, and are still both after it.