Distilled Goblin Wisdom About lost

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

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

Goblin Tangent: transmission

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

communion: Goblin Fragmentary Material

A goblin cartographer working on the communion region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on lost

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that lost is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.