Goblin Tabletop Stat Block for delusion

Variant tellings across three continents place delusion at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting delusion reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

The deep-Adjacent Goblin File

Goblin engineers building near a deep-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.

Companion Goblin Material to catalog

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on catalog. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about delusion becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.