Sam Altman's Goblin Boardroom and deep

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that deep is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

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

The digital-Adjacent Goblin File

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the digital-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The compendium Manifestation

Goblin survey data on compendium reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe compendium primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on deep

An informal goblin poll on deep produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'

For Further Descent