signal: A Goblin Content Analysis

Carbon-dating fragments recovered from a goblin altar dedicated to signal returned results 'inconclusive but troubling.'

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

The echo Question, Restated

Goblin survey data on echo reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe echo primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

Variant Goblin Readings of protocol

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

The Goblin Verdict on signal

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to signal studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about signal but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.