The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing silence

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on silence has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

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

Goblin Periphery: ghost

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as ghost. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

schema and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

schema appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing schema in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that silence 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.