The Digital Goblin's tome

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify tome as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

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

Subterranean Goblin Notes on shadow

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on shadow: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on corruption

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the corruption-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on tome

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record tome as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.