tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750846040586172291.post2763824643591771956..comments2023-12-30T04:16:42.900-08:00Comments on The Grue Next Door: Goblins, Orcs and Bugbears - oh meh.Crunk Posbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14942696000058400028noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750846040586172291.post-51394172951316359692013-12-29T13:59:54.974-08:002013-12-29T13:59:54.974-08:00Just make a shtick and slap it on a pre-existing h...Just make a shtick and slap it on a pre-existing humanoid. Pumpkin-headed goblins who drink blood. Orcs with tubular heads and frogs tongues. Ogres with the same body plan as giant crabs (but still with 8 legs and soft, shitty bodies). Just don't call them goblins, orcs, or ogres.<br /><br />Or these guys:<br />http://goblinpunch.blogspot.com/2013/06/yoblins-funglybears-and-filth-libraries.htmlArnold Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12603155377769597516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2750846040586172291.post-24003689466238351992013-12-29T13:13:50.812-08:002013-12-29T13:13:50.812-08:00I've been running a LOTFP style campaign for a...I've been running a LOTFP style campaign for a while now - it's about a ruined alien city in the frozen north, discovered by Vikings (and the players are all Norse or related). Early on, most of the opponents were other raiders; more monstrous opponents involved other explorers infected by rage worms (a parasite in the water) and becoming Berserkers (or mutating further into muscled cannibals - Phase 2 and Phase 3 berserkers).<br /><br />Other humanoid stand-ins have included "white apes" (violent near-human hominids); the ubiquitous morlocks, cannibal cousins of the white apes; frost gremlins, goblin-like nuisances created from the dripping ichor of a severed Jotun's head; plasticals (Marks I-IV) - the rubbery servitors of the ancient aliens that still maintain some of the equipment under the city.<br /><br />Looks like you're going for a heavy Greek theme. I like the idea of Amazons and Myrmidons as berserkers; I've considered Satyrs and Bacchantes as violent replacements for Orcs. I'd also consider creating new races as servitors to the gods (assuming something like the Greek gods are somewhere in the background). Mechanical men or artificial men were spawned by Hephaestus; creepy black clad jawa-like things drag bodies down to the Underworld; Oreads or Nymphs can be turned into fierce analogs of elves and ward the wilds on behalf of Artemis.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18031181424520125213noreply@blogger.com