Goblin Kernel Panic Regarding shadow

The goblin elders speak of shadow in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

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.

threshold as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

threshold pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

Three Goblins Discuss court

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about court requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to court only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about shadow 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.