[RQ-Rules] RQ Beasties

[Stephen Posey]

MurfNMurf at aol.com wrote:
>    I've always liked Goblins-proper. Not Tolkien's ones. You know, the ones 
> that're sometimes goofy, sometimes scary, sometimes noble, sometimes 
> contrary, and sometimes a mix of all 4. 
>    In various folklore sources I'd found them to have a pretty bewildering 
> range of different sizes and abilities (In addition to the images in Rodney 
> Mathews' posters from the early 80s)
>    To reflect this, I'd *originially* used Trollkin, plus RQ3's three 
> different sizes of Orc to provide an interesting range of stats and sizes.
>    This, however, effectively led to there being four different 'breeds' of 
> Goblin. Something I didn't really care for.
>    Then I found the stats for Goblins in the CoC 'Dreamlands' book, where 
> their STR and SIZ were each rolled up using 1D20 (or was it 2D10?). I liked 
> the more random and wide-open feel this provided, and so, my RQ Goblins (who 
> pretty much range the great Old Forest of Prydain) have received a reworking, 
> and are now generated like their CoC cousins :)

"Prydain" as in Lloyd Alexander's Taran books?

Stephen Posey
slposey at concentric.net