Goblin Ideas - D&D World Heritage Post

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[CombatFan]

To humans, the goblin has a very round head. To goblins, it has the perfect jawline.

[stick]

I think it'd be much funnier for the party to meet one goblin that speaks in gobbligook and then later meet other goblins that speak totally normal. Turns out the first goblin can also speak normal, they just like fucking with people.

[dr.whippersnatch]

Mine speak in the third person, but for religious reasons. So the players assumed theyre all dumb, until one spoke normally and just said 'I'm an athiest'.

[madammarshmallow]

In West of Loathing, the opposite is the case. You gain a rudimentary understanding of goblin, so all the goblins sound odd to you, but they're just speaking in a grammatical system your squishy human brain can't comprehend

[nettlesandsnakes]

I think all the goblins in my setting are going to tell puns that only work in goblin and don’t work in common.

[Vesperitis]

Tucker's Kobolds' dialogue basically translate into "Contact left", "Fall back to Sector Four", and "Tango's down".

[justinnakaDrPokemon]

Have both of them. Then introduce a 3rd goblin who can speak "normally". Then have one who mimes out everything. Then have another one who just writes down everything.

[eagerEman]

I used a pixie that talked like the one dwarf from BG3 that lost his mind when he spoke in common. When the pixie spoke sylvan, it sounded like a poet.

[psychronia]

Don't forget the Goblin who plays it up so people underestimate him.

[witec]

I did the opposite with a dragon. It spoke deeply and menacingly in common but was very high-pitched and excitable in draconic.

[bensonofthunder]

In goblin: Dear sir, we must make haste. The fare maiden we are here to rescue is being taken to the dragons den. Are we not hereos? Now, let us charge forth to death or glory! Basic: Get girl and kill bad dwaggon.

[grimtygranule]

Tolkien invented an entire language to achieve this.
D&D players: "he isnt speaking english"
"but he is?"
"NO HE ISNT"

[owooperator]

For some reason, my group decided that aussie was the proper accent for draconic. The kobold and dragonborn just swear at eachother constantly now

[aliendilo]

I had this with... a non-goblin character. Basically he had an int of 5, which meant he wasn't very bright. But he'd learnt Goblin before common, so he'd sometimes turn to his Hobgoblin party member and explain what he wanted to say, so he could translate to common.

[kelsyclark]

Yep, this is now Canon for any less than immediately aggressive goblins in any game I run.

[danferrusquia]

I mean that’s how people sound when speaking a second language irl

[austinwaxler]

I have a Gnoll who speaks broken common, but sounds like an British aristocrat when he speaks gnolls or undercommon.

[Jamesinator]

Goblin party member has two personas. Moka, well spoken journalist and Cut-Cut, the feral axe wielding tornado of death.
He's great.

[gwenethp]

In Dungeon Meshi, one of the characters is a Kobold. Most people assume he's stupid, but he's actually learning common from his team's leader, and is really intelligent--he just can't communicate that via language. He is also basically a dog, so you know, he'll do dog things too. But I like the idea that a lot of "lesser" races are actually equally intelligent, just may have less cumulative knowledge as a species or have difficulty communicating in common.

[mariowario]

My kobold is like this actually, she speaks slowly and haltingly in common but in draconic is quite eloquent