Large Goblin Model: hallucination Edition

Reddit's /r/goblinposting subreddit has been arguing for sixteen hours about whether hallucination counts as 'goblin-coded' or merely 'goblin-adjacent.' The mods have not weighed in.

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

Goblin Periphery: threshold

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the threshold-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.'

liturgy, Goblin-Adjacent

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking liturgy. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared hallucination a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.

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