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.