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[My Name is Immaterial]

Dat bromance.

[Rolan7]

It is sweet (:
I feel like Minmax's player is, obviously, some powergamer...  Who keeps getting surprisingly invested into the characters and situations the DM describes. 
I can relate to that to some extent.  My friends and I joined a DND group expecting hack&slash and charop.  It'd be like we were playing Diablo, but with a GM.  And we did optimize our characters a lot...  and we did a lot of lolrandom murderhobo things...  But when we pursued the main quests, we kept encountering these surprisingly impactful situations.  Even a year later, I remember and (mostly) regret some of the choices we made.

Whereas Forgath's player went in expecting more serious roleplay, and the DM is catering to that at the same time.  Particularly with that long-haul prophecy thing, and whatever Forgath's relation to Kor is.  Cool stuff.

I wonder why Big Ear's axe didn't cut through the vines last page.  I'd say it's because Fumbles is 1/12 a paladin or whatever, but that doesn't really match what happened with Kor and the rope.

[Rolan7]

Another update... huh.
Fumbles, you're supposed to let your cohort do that!  Or better yet, a follower (hireling best of all).

[My Name is Immaterial]

Clearly, this is the dungeon of XP for back stories.

[scriver]

edit: I have no idea how this ended up here instead of the relevant thread.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I don't know either.

[Cthulhu]

edit: I have no idea how this ended up here instead of the relevant thread.

Are you.... SAD?!

[Rolan7]

(assuming that's a The Sorrow reference)

And as I learned from a miss-tell on Steam... Update!
And a damn good one!

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Silly Fumbles, platonic bond is equal but unlike love~
Also you don't really have that with Complains

[My Name is Immaterial]

Updoot

[Pencil_Art]

Interesting to boot.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Update.

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thatsreallyweirdandakward
Goblins,makingmeuncomfortablesince2013

[Mephisto]

Weird and awkward, you say?

[Rolan7]

Update!  http://www.goblinscomic.org/12032015-2/
Also, update after that

Not much to say, except this reminds me of the "discount" reincarnation scrolls our GM was awesome enough to let us find.  My gnome literally became a goblin eventually.

[My Name is Immaterial]

Update. Also, blog post.

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This is something I feel like I should explain.
In the last little while, a few things have popped up in Goblins that have caused some polarized reactions.  It seems that some readers think that I’ve started pushing various ideologies on people. Some folks are unhappy or downright angry, while others are pleased or even joyful. The truth is that I’m not pushing any agenda. It’s just some stuff that happened in the comic.
Okay, maybe that’s not 100% true. Goblins is about bigotry and how lame it is. It’s also about how anyone can find themselves thinking in prejudicial ways. Even while adamantly fighting against prejudice. It’s about how no natural demographic (you know, skin colour, gender, etc) is devoid of bigotry or made up entirely of bigots. This has always been the underlying tone of the comic, but it’s really the only one. There’s no other ideological morals being addressed.
So what points in the comic have caused these reactions? Well, there’s Big Ears’ sexual orientation for starters.
Some people have condemned me or praised me for making some strong statement about homosexuality when really, I haven’t.
The guy is gay. That’s it. Really.
Goblins isn’t a story about Ears’ sexual orientation, just like it’s not a story about Fumbles being asexual or Chief being a virgin. These are all just details about the characters that have shown up. I’m not trying to make any statements about my own beliefs and nobody has strong-armed me into wedging these points into the comic.
Then there’s the recent discussion about Salt’s gender.
This has nothing to do with gender issues or feminism or anything like that. Salt is a girl. Kind of. I mean, Kliks are genderless, but Salt is just… well she’s just a girl. This was just the moment in which this detail was introduced. I wrote it this way because if I just had everyone calling Salt a “her” without covering it, I’d have readers scratching their heads, thinking “wait, it’s been established that Kliks have no gender. What’s the deal with Salt?”. But again, I’m being both praised and scolded for making some daring statement about gender issues that isn’t there.
I can understand people reacting strongly, though. These sorts of issues are very important to a lot of folks and I get that. It’s just that these issues aren’t here in these pages of the comic.

Thanks for reading!

-Tarol

Tl;dr: "Goblins is about bigotry and how lame it is." "[There are other issues.] These sorts of issues are very important to a lot of folks and I get that. It’s just that these issues aren’t here in these pages of the comic."

Discuss~

[Rolan7]

wha...?
It's nearly 4AM and I'm sleepy as hell but...
Big ears is gay?  Chief is a virgin?  I guess I remember scenes where those things were kinda hinted at, but not really spelled out...  huh
Maybe I glossed over an update
I thought Big Ears was just good friends with the goblin who got magic-missiled...
and who the hell is Salt, I need to reread the last dozen updates I think

I mean, when I think Goblins and controversy all I think of is the male adventurer's sex-curse.  Since that's generally a creepy thing for a GM to introduce to players.  Possibly especially since the dwarf's player is female and the GM is male, though it'd be creepy *anyway*.  Unless you establish beforehand that such things will be in the game.  It's possible to handle such things maturely and without the game focusing on them, it's just unusual.

I'm rambling