1) Horse Hate: Goblins excel at riding
animals, but they don’t quite get horses. In fact, their hatred of all things
horse is matched only by their fear of horses, who tend to step on goblins who
get too close.
2) Dog Hate: Although goblins raise
horrible rat-faced creatures called (creatively enough) goblin dogs to use as
mounts (and ride wolves or worgs—goblins are quick to explain that wolves are
NOT dogs), their hatred of plain old dogs nearly matches their hatred of horses.
The feeling is mutual. If your dog’s barking at the woodpile for no reason,
chances are he smells a frightened goblin hiding in there somewhere.
3) Goblins Raid Junkyards: Garbage pits,
gutters, sewers… anywhere there’s garbage, you can bet goblins are nearby.
Goblins are weirdly adept at crafting weapons and armor from refuse, and are
fond of killing people with what they throw away.
4) Goblins Love to Sing: Unfortunately, as
catchy as their lyrics can be, goblin songs tend to be a bit too creepy and disturbing
to catch on in polite society.
5) They’re Sneaky: An excited or angry
goblin is a noisy, chattering, toothy menace, but even then, he can drop into
an unsettling silence in a heartbeat. This, matched with their diminutive size,
makes them unnervingly adept at hiding in places you’d never expect: stacks of
firewood, rain barrels, under logs, under chicken coops, in ovens…
6) They’re A Little Crazy: The fact that
goblins think of things like ovens as good hiding places reveals much about
their inability to think plans through to the most likely outcome. That, and
they tend to be easily distracted, particularly by shiny things and animals
smaller than them that might make good eating.
7) They’re Voracious: Given enough
supplies, a goblin generally takes nearly a dozen meals a day. Most goblin
tribes don’t have enough supplies to accommodate such ravenous appetites, which
is why the little menaces are so prone to going on raids.
8) They Like Fire: Burning things is one
of the great goblin pastimes, although they’re generally pretty careful about
lighting fires in their own lairs, especially since goblins tend to live in
large tangled thistle patches and sleep in beds of dried leaves and grass. But
give a goblin a torch and someone else’s home and you’ve got trouble.
9) They Get Stuck Easily: Goblins have
wiry frames but wide heads. They live in cramped warrens. Sometimes too cramped
10) Goblins Believe Writing Steals Your Soul:
The walls of goblin lairs and the ruins of towns goblins have raided are littered
with pictures of their exploits. They never use writing, though. That’s not
lucky. Writing steals words out of your head. You can’t get them back.
Courtesy of Paizo Publishing
