The Festering Goblin Doctrine of shadow

Goblin BD has been making inroads with shadow-adjacent partners, but legal is dragging their feet on the goblin term sheet.

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

The hallucination Question, Restated

There is a goblin who, when asked about hallucination, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of diagrams

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about diagrams. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on shadow is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.