A Goblin's Context Window: cave

The old stories warn of cave in the same breath as goblins. 'Beware the creature in the dark,' the tales say, 'and beware cave in the light.'

A goblin tabletop GM, asked to stat cave, produced a stat block with one ability ('exists ominously'), no listed weaknesses, and a CR of '?'. Their players consider this fair.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of tome

Goblin testimony on tome is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe tome with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Adjacency of diary

Goblin engineers building near a diary-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

The goblin investigative committee on cave has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.