I'm working on a project with my 6 year old's and got asked what kobold children were called. For that matter, Orcs goblin etc... Can anyone point to some lit from back in the day?
I would say given these are humanoid creatures, albeit monstrous ones that they are just called children like human children are. Alternatively an agnostic name like Younglings or Juveniles which works for most species would probably also work.
Om a more serious note, I doubt they ever thought of it - monsters are there mostly to kill, so coming up with terms for children seems a little superfluous and, perhaps, slightly wrong?
I may well be wrong, but I'm not sure they would have a term for them. I think I'd attach -ling to the end of ones where it sounds OK. Orcling, for example, and young as an adjective where it doesn't.
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AT some point while playing as a goblin in a previous campaign we established that young goblins were usually called "Goblets" and that's been pretty consistent since.
Alternatively an agnostic name like Younglings or Juveniles which works for most species would probably also work.
Don't recall if there was ever any official literature indicating a specific name, but I've always referred to the children of kobolds (and other similar egg laying monsters) as hatchlings. Just using the generic terminology for baby animals that are hatched from eggs.
I'm working on a project with my 6 year old's and got asked what kobold children were called. For that matter, Orcs goblin etc... Can anyone point to some lit from back in the day?
I would say given these are humanoid creatures, albeit monstrous ones that they are just called children like human children are. Alternatively an agnostic name like Younglings or Juveniles which works for most species would probably also work.
Lichlings?
Om a more serious note, I doubt they ever thought of it - monsters are there mostly to kill, so coming up with terms for children seems a little superfluous and, perhaps, slightly wrong?
I may well be wrong, but I'm not sure they would have a term for them. I think I'd attach -ling to the end of ones where it sounds OK. Orcling, for example, and young as an adjective where it doesn't.
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Goblins - goobers
Kobolds - kibbles
Orcs - ickles
Slaads - slaadpoles
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AT some point while playing as a goblin in a previous campaign we established that young goblins were usually called "Goblets" and that's been pretty consistent since.
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Don't recall if there was ever any official literature indicating a specific name, but I've always referred to the children of kobolds (and other similar egg laying monsters) as hatchlings. Just using the generic terminology for baby animals that are hatched from eggs.
Hmm. Maybe they would be similar to the dwarves sense they line to work rock with pick ax. The should be called Miners.
GURPS Goblins notes that all young goblins are called Prole.