[OT] Goblinoid roll call!

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[OT] Goblinoid roll call!

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Ok, if you had to narrow down the goblinoid races to 5, which ones would you include?
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What more do you need than Orcs and Goblins?

I guess you mean to include...

Bugbears

Hobgoblins

What others are we talking about?
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Goblin, based on real-world mythology. Don't need anything else.

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Well, in ascending order of toughness I think of kobold, goblin, orc, hobgoblin... but I'm looking for a 5th one to round out a project I'm working on. Who'd be big baddie #5? Bugbears? Trolls? Ogres?
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I suggest the custom "ogrelin". The best of bugbear + ogre with 6 HD.

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I think out of those three, Jay....the natural tendency would be to go with the Bugbear after the Hobgoblin. They just always seemed the next step up I guess.

Hooking up at a pub after work with one of the three, I'd probably go with the Troll though.
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Me likee ogres!!
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Bugbears are genetically proven thru 1st edition sources to be goblinoid in nature

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jaybird216 wrote:
Well, in ascending order of toughness I think of kobold, goblin, orc, hobgoblin... but I'm looking for a 5th one to round out a project I'm working on. Who'd be big baddie #5? Bugbears? Trolls? Ogres?

see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblinoid# ... 26_Dragons

I don't think kobolds are goblinoid. But you are right to put bugbears at the top of the list

EDIT: And I note that this list does not include orcs. Which makes no sense as those are clearly goblinoid. (The great George Macdonald Fraser proved that with a letter he sent as a schoolboy to Tolkien, asking if the two creatures (orcs and goblins) were the same. They were)

And don't forget the dreaded nilbogs!

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Orcs.

Everything else is just food.

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Bugbears get my vote.

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Post by Jyrdan Fairblade »

I'd use the Goblinoids entry from the old 1e Forgotten Realms Greybox as my guide. Which was, as I recall: Kobold, Goblin, Hobgoblin, Orc, Bugbear, Ogre.

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Hobgoblins!
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Post by Relaxo »

NB: I posted this before reading thread to keep it free of outside influence.

(not that you asked 0

I suppose we must include GOBLINS...

So I'd say;

Kobolds,

Goblins,

Hobgoblins,

Bugbears,

Orcs.

If you consider Hobgoblin to be a sub- / super-race of goblin, then we can wiggle in Ogres.

But, are ogres goblinoids or giant-kin? If their gobbies, they're #5.

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Jyrdan Fairblade wrote:
I'd use the Goblinoids entry from the old 1e Forgotten Realms Greybox as my guide. Which was, as I recall: Kobold, Goblin, Hobgoblin, Orc, Bugbear, Ogre.

Hell yeah. That is a great setting. IMHO that's the best presentation of a setting for D&D yet. I love that 1e boxed set.

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Post by concobar »

I seem to recall ogres as being giant kin.

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