What color are yer gobins?

[talinthas]

yellowy brown. like a banana that's going bad.

 

[thalmin]

Mine have been orange since 1E, when I got my jar of Official AD&D Paint Goblin Flesh that was put out by Polly S. It was orange, so I knew goblins had to be orange, just like orcs had to be olive green. (I miss those paints.)

 

[Wombat]

Whatever colour is convenient for the campaign.

 

[dead]

Human Flesh Color?

Last I checked, that varied quite widely.

My Ral Patha paint only has one Human Flesh Color. It is a light shade of pinky cream.

 

[ivocaliban]

I suppose I've always thought of them as a grey-brown...rather like mud. The color of Arnold Schwarzenegger when he's hiding from the predator.

 

[wingsandsword]

I voted for green, but I later remembered that psionic goblins are blue, oh well.

 

[dead]

I voted for green, but I later remembered that psionic goblins are blue, oh well.

I had blue orcs in my FR campaign waaaaay before the blue goblins of the Psionic Handbook .

They were an "evolved" orc from another world. I called them Hoch-Euroz, meaning "High-Orc" and they followed all the stats of a half-orc.

 

[Sejs]

Green but with different undertones depending on their native region. Green, Green-Grey, Green-Tan, and Green-Black being the most common.

 

[Gez]

My Ral Patha paint only has one Human Flesh Color. It is a light shade of pinky cream.

Note that it's called "Human Flesh" and not "Human Skin"...

As for official D&D goblin skin color...

D&D goblins are red, I think.

Not necessarily:

Goblins' skin color ranges from yellow through any shade of orange to a deep red; usually all members of a single tribe are about the same color.

In addition, Blues are blue.

If you look at the official D&D minis, the goblin warrior is beige, the goblin skirmisher yellow, Snig the Axe is yellow, and the Silent Wolf tribe goblins are red.

Mine are likewise. Common goblins are beige to red, golden goblins (a subrace more civilized than the common goblins who live in small nomadic tribes) are yellow, and blues are blue, of course.

 

[Romnipotent]

colour depends on tribe, and position, rituals change the colour, fear the technicoloured dreamgobbo