Goblin Ragebait: silence Edition

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of silence in their cultural cosmology.

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.

The Goblin Adjacency of signal

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

The Goblin Council on bibliography

Across the goblin warrens, bibliography is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on silence, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.