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Neonivek

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Goblin Taint
« on: July 10, 2014, 08:02:38 pm »

Because Toady doesn't want Goblins to create their own sources of food... Here is something to justify a lot of their behavior.

Creatures kidnapped by goblins should have their essences changed by said goblins and be sort of goblinoid creatures who share several traits with goblins (Skin pigmentation, ears, possible immortality, lack of requirement to eat).

This is similar but less severe to how trolls work.
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FrankMcFuzz

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Re: Goblin Taint
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2014, 08:29:48 pm »

And, what, after several generations, the creature (and its offspring) start to devolve into goblins? :O And that's where goblins came from?

Genius. 10/10
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Re: Goblin Taint
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2014, 08:35:50 pm »

Because Toady doesn't want Goblins to create their own sources of food... Here is something to justify a lot of their behavior.

Creatures kidnapped by goblins should have their essences changed by said goblins and be sort of goblinoid creatures who share several traits with goblins (Skin pigmentation, ears, possible immortality, lack of requirement to eat).

This is similar but less severe to how trolls work.

So like darkspawn.
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Neonivek

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Re: Goblin Taint
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2014, 12:37:57 am »

Darkspawn turn people into entirely different species depending on what their original species was and what their gender is.
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Waparius

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« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2014, 12:45:19 am »

I really like this somehow. Especially if it's possible to have misguided immortality cults try to voluntarily become goblins -  maybe even have some kind of wizards or alchemists trying to study them to find the secret of goblin immortality in lieu of necromancers' god-given slabs.
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Re: Goblin Taint
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2014, 07:03:56 am »

Darkspawn turn people into entirely different species depending on what their original species was and what their gender is.
No it doesn't, females mutate in giant bloated broodmares, while males mutate into malformed insane cannibals. The males are defiantly still x, while the females are god knows.
« Last Edit: July 11, 2014, 07:06:01 am by locustgate »
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Adrian

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Re: Goblin Taint
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2014, 07:11:48 am »

I think you're all confusing darkspawn with the Innsmouth look.
And now i feel compelled to post the wiki explanation for the uninformed, and The Shadow over Innsmouth for the die-hard Crafties.
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Dovale

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Re: Goblin Taint
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2014, 01:16:53 pm »

I think you're all confusing darkspawn with the Innsmouth look.
And now i feel compelled to post the wiki explanation for the uninformed, and The Shadow over Innsmouth for the die-hard Crafties.

Correct if I'm wrong, but the Innsmouth look is genetic. The freaks weren't mutated, they were mutants all along.

I like goblin societies as they are now. Goblin is a way of life.

Mutations would seem more appropriate in civilizations conquered by demons. "I can feel the warp overtaking me. It is a good pain."
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Re: Goblin Taint
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2014, 06:50:58 pm »

Because Toady doesn't want Goblins to create their own sources of food... Here is something to justify a lot of their behavior.

Creatures kidnapped by goblins should have their essences changed by said goblins and be sort of goblinoid creatures who share several traits with goblins (Skin pigmentation, ears, possible immortality, lack of requirement to eat).

This is similar but less severe to how trolls work.

I was thinking the exact same thing a minute ago, and thought about posting a thread about it.
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