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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moorcrys" data-source="post: 6203768" data-attributes="member: 7814">It's all opinion, of course. Personally I don't like cutesie goblins. I don't like cutesie kobolds. Well, unless it's a ruse to convince a compassionate group of PCs to let their guard down so their throats can be slit while they sleep. A comic goblin contrasting what is a wicked and sadistic race of baby-snatching torturing thieving murderous vermin might be interesting to me. How they were presented in column was a turnoff. And I generally really like those columns.A more interesting question to pose about these two races in my opinion is to what lengths of cunning depravity must they go to survive and thrive in a world where they are surrounded by and typically dominated by so much stronger wickedness. It has gotta be more than 'they're comic relief with cute voices and they're kinda occasionally unpleasant when they're not being stupid... Oh and kobolds use traps.'. They should be vicious, scheming, selfish, hateful things in general. And utterly, remorselessly brutal when they think they can get away with it. I don't want my players to have qualms about killing them.Goblins should ride wargs because they're a match for them in some way. They both enjoy killing and torturing in the same way? Goblins brutalize wargs from an early age so the wargs instinctually fear them and wargs showing alpha behavior are killed before they get too strong? Wargs cull the old and/or the weak from a goblin tribe and hang out with them because they're well-fed? They both have a similar taste for elvish flesh? Or perhaps wargs like the parts of halflings that goblins won't eat. Who knows? I don't want to see goblins riding dogs because wargs don't fit the cute, keystone cops wash that the article seems to be going for. Dogs? Not in my world.IMHO ;-)</blockquote>

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