Goblins as a playable race? - Very mild and early on spoilers

[MoSo]

I think making goblins a playable choice would fit neatly into act one, just not through the nautiloid start. Everything is in place to create a neat little origin.

You've got the goblin camp as your start area, the cult present at said camp, and true soul gut to infect you with the tadpole.
The ransacking of the blighted village could serve as justification as to why the player character gets "honored" with the tadpole.

The justification to split with the goblin camp could be one of the following:
- Being secretly loyal to the old goblin faith
- Overhearing some rather unbecoming aspect of the cults plans
(maybe shedding themselves of the rather weak goblins after they have fulfilled their purpose)
- Feeling and fearing the influence of the tadpole, like most of the other soon-to-be-playable characters do
- An interaction with a stranger or prisoner who sways us to break away

The developers proved already, that body height/size doesn't keep them from creating playable races like the dwarves or halflings.

What interests me the most about that scenario are all the possible interactions with the grove, the goblin camp, general people who mostly look down on the almost feral goblins etc.
Astarion relationship to our goblin character especially intrigues me!
He's sure to object in some way or to deliver some good quips as to why he's following/working with a goblin.

Overall: I think this could be part of a bigger DLC in the far far future

I hope my jibber jabber made some sense.
It's not a very realistic idea but it's still fun to imagine the possibilities and have a little discussion about how they could be implemented.

[Popsicles]

They could easily have you befriend a gobbo in the gobbo village. One that is immune to the absolute?

As far as starting as a goblin, I believe that would create a lot of extra writing and variables into the story line that Larian isn't prepared for or willing to create.

[GrandMajora]

Publicado originalmente por Balltin:

They could easily have you befriend a gobbo in the gobbo village. One that is immune to the absolute?

As far as starting as a goblin, I believe that would create a lot of extra writing and variables into the story line that Larian isn't prepared for or willing to create.

The only people subjected to The Absolute's influence are those with the tadpole. If you wait long enough in the room with Priestess Gut, one of the other goblins comments on how they only hear the voice of The Absolute through her.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Publicado originalmente por Balltin:

They could easily have you befriend a gobbo in the gobbo village. One that is immune to the absolute?

I actually thought the deposed chief, the one that still worships Maglubiyet, would have made an interesting camp follower.

[sevensided]

Publicado originalmente por GrandMajora:

Publicado originalmente por Balltin:

They could easily have you befriend a gobbo in the gobbo village. One that is immune to the absolute?

As far as starting as a goblin, I believe that would create a lot of extra writing and variables into the story line that Larian isn't prepared for or willing to create.

The only people subjected to The Absolute's influence are those with the tadpole. If you wait long enough in the room with Priestess Gut, one of the other goblins comments on how they only hear the voice of The Absolute through her.

Indeed. Those gobbos are just subject to good old fashion tribalism peer pressure brainwashing. Except one. I was really hoping that one would join the camp.

[B Rad Mojad]

A goblin PC would be alright, though I would much rather have hobgoblin available to play as. Purging the heretics for the glory of Maglubiyet as a hobgoblin conquest paladin would be glorious.

[voidmoney]

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Publicado originalmente por Cirrus:

You must be quite new with d&d? There is this book called monsters of multiverse where goblins are absolutrly not ”black-hearted”. You are looking totally wrong book if we are discussing playable goblin.

” Now many goblins pursue their own destinies, escaping the plots of both archfey and gods.”

:D
Oh, cmon! MoM were released maximum few years ago. I don't think we may consider it as part of BG3, that was declared as PHB edition.

Monster player manuals go back a lot further than 5th edition. It wouldn't be out of the realm of reason for a DM to cherry pick stuff from previous editions, if its all taking place in the Forgotten Realms anyway. Looking at the monster manual for guidance on player controlled characters doesn't really make sense anyway. The monster manual is for enemies, there are other handbooks for adapting monsters as players, and they do happen to include goblinoids.