Favorite "tougher" humanoid: Bugbear, hobgoblin, or gnoll?
Favorite "tougher" humanoid: Bugbear, hobgoblin, or gnoll?
This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make...
Originally shared by Curt Thompson This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make it work. Time Enough For Love was written in the very early 70s and was a straight (heh) extrapolation of the chaotic and frenetic zeitgeist of that era. http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2012/11/the-joke-is-on-us-the-two-careers-of-robert-a-heinlein/
Hobgoblin! Love that helmet.
ReplyDeleteI'm always torn.
ReplyDeleteI love the military style of hobgobs.
I love the fact that bugbears are big, but fit in places you wouldn't expect.
And gnolls because hyena-man.
I'm a fan of the hobgoblins, especially luridly coloured ones.
ReplyDeleteBlue noses are awesome.
ReplyDeleteGnoll. Or, the lesser known cousin, Flind. Or is it Flynn?
ReplyDeleteFlind-bar! Weapons for kung-fu gnolls!
ReplyDeleteSummoning Jeremy Kostiew to the thread. :D
ReplyDeleteOne of the best things D&D mythology did in 3rd edition was make hobgoblins an actual threat. The back story of Drazen's Horde in the Chainmail minis game was awesome. And also, Red Hand of Doom!
ReplyDeleteGNOLLS ARE VERY BEST
ReplyDeleteYOU BUGBEARS CAN'T APPLY
WHEN GNOLLS HIT THE DUNGEON SCENE
ADVENTURERS RUN OR DIE.
Jeremy Kostiew is a gnoll supremacist. But it is a fact that Yeenoghu's triple-flail is epic.
ReplyDelete"This one has three heads. Look."
ReplyDelete"Oh, I see. And most flails only have one head?"
"Exactly."
"Why don't you just make a flail with one head and make one be the top number and make that three times heavier?" \
"…this has three heads."
Gnolls, because even when they're trying to kill you, you want to scratch behind their ears and give them cookies.
ReplyDeleteI really dug what they did with "goblins" in Birthright. All the sizes of goblinoids are called goblins, and are all similar in appearance.They still come in different sizes, and have stats comparable to goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears. It just makes more sense they don't have half a dozen inhumans that all basically serve the same purpose.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.birthright.net/forums/showwiki.php?title=Goblin
Actually, that whole setting had some pretty interesting twists on the standard fantasy races.
Bugbears all the way. In fact, I kind of prefer a game with goblins and bugbears but no orcs.
ReplyDeleteIn one 2nd edition adventure I ran, I had bugbears as the Sawney Bean family.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawney_Bean
Gotta go with Gnolls. Even if its just for the Chainmail minis.
ReplyDeleteGnolls have won...
ReplyDeleteGotta go with Gnolls - remember the Gnoll adventuring party we played at the first Gen Cons I was at? We fought a clan of dwarves who's mounts were rams.
ReplyDeleteI'd forgotten that, Hoov.
ReplyDeleteLong live Naresh!!
ReplyDeleteThat was the Gnoll tribe name? it was an awesome adventure with a good DM at the Con
ReplyDeleteNaresh is from Chainmail
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