Meeting/we be goblins
We Be Goblins!®
We be Lick toads! We make raid!
Put the longshanks to the blade!
Burn them up from feet to head,
Make them hurt, then make them dead!
Cut the parents into ham,
Smush the babies into jam,
All the rest in pot get stewed,
We be Lick toads - you be food!
Background
You are goblins of the Licktoad tribe, who live deep in Brinestump Marsh, south of the hated man-town called Sandpoint. Once, other goblins tried to burn Sandpoint down, and they would have been legends if they had succeeded. But they didn’t bring enough fire, and got themselves killed as a result.
Yesterday, your tribe discovered that one of your own had been using forbidden arts and was engaged in one of the greatest of taboos—writing things down. In fact, rumor holds that what he was writing was a history of your tribe! There’s no swifter way to bring about bad luck than stealing words out of your mind by writing them down, and so your tribe had no choice. You branded the goblin’s face with letters to punish him, which is why everyone calls him Scribbleface now, and then you ran him out of town, took all of his stuff, and burned down his hut.
That’s where things got interesting, because before you all burned down his hut, Chief Gutwad found a weird box within the building. Inside was a map and a lot of fireworks—fireworks that immediately came to use in burning the hut down. Then, this morning, Gutwad announced that tonight there would be a feast in order to drive out any lingering bad luck from Scribbleface’s poor decisions. But perhaps even more exciting, all of you have been secretly invited to meet at Chief Gutwad’s Moot House.
Why would the chief want to speak to you? It can only mean that he’s got an important mission for you all... one that the other goblins of the tribe couldn’t pull off. This could be your chance to go down in Licktoad history.
Info on playing goblins
- HORSE HATE: Goblins hate horses
- DOG HATE: They hate dogs too.
- GOBLINS RAID JUNKYARDS: Love garbage piles
- GOBLINS LOVE TO SING: Goblins love to sing creepy songs.
- THEY’RE SNEAKY: They like to hide in odd places like stacks of firewood, rain barrels, under logs, under chicken coops, in ovens….
- THEY’RE A LITTLE CRAZY: They are goblins… they don’t think things through.
- THEY’RE VORACIOUS: Goblins eat more than they make so they raid to get more to eat.
- THEY LIKE FIRE: They love to burn things especially other peoples things.
- THEY GET STUCK EASILY: Their big heads get them stuck sometimes.
- GOBLINS BELIEVE WRITING STEALS YOUR SOUL: Enough said.
There are pregenerated (zipped PDF) characters available directly from Paizo.
I've copied them here for convenience...
- Reta (fighter)
- Chuffy (rogue)
- Poog (cleric)
- Mogmurch (alchemist) ==> Bert the Alchemicist
You can make a couple of minor tweaks per character such as to swap out a feat, skills, spells, a weapon etc. (Chuffy needs changing to unchained rogue... e.g. gets an extra feat as weapon finesse is a bonus feat).
I was going to allow homebrew characters, but the adventure is built around these guys and their less than optimal character builds, so I suggest we just enjoy them as they are.
