I was looking for a suitable race for my new transmutation wizard. I wanted something a tad exotic, but somewhat familiar. I had a hard time finding a nice species for my character, so I reskinned/reflavored an existing one.
Here is the Gobledwarf or Lepre-Dwarf
Dalle 2 Collection (Don't mind the text prompts, I've gathered this collection from a series of failed, but beautiful images)
Suitable game-mechanical races for Gobledwarves are for example Mark of Warding Dwarves, Mark of Scribing Gnomes and Deep Gnomes.
What are they?
-Gobledwarves are distant relatives of dwarves, typically found deep underground or in other exotic places.
-Highly magical creatures who like to live in magical places, absorbing that surrounding magic from before they are born
-The surrounding magical energies give them their exotic and unique appearance, which can sometimes make them quite monstrous even.
-Because of these physical changes, they come in many shapes and sizes. They are either medium or small. Some are stocky like dwarves, but generally they are a bit smaller and nimbler than their dwarven relatives.
-Distinguishing features: Long and pointy ears, innate magical abilities, goblin-like facial features, big noses
-Come equipped with all sorts of alignments and personalities, but in our setting they have a cultural tendency towards Chaotic and highly task-oriented
-Often come off as super-focused on their personal tasks/interests. Their long lives allow them to focus on narrow subjects for extended periods of times.
-Live up to 350 years, sometimes even longer
-Often quirky and clever
-Magic and intelligence is highly valued
-They don't mind the words gobledwarf or lepre-dwarf, but they prefer to use their clan names, because their clan refers to their region and their region gives them their unique features. My character is of the Creftlan-Dreblin-region, so he refers to his race as a "creft"
What is this based on?
This is actually quite difficult to explain in english. It's a funny language barrier.
In Finnish, we have the term "maahinen", which would probably be closest to what goblins are like in Harry Potter. But goblin means a very different thing in DnD and many other english sources. And we have the word "menninkäinen", which is more like a DnD goblin. But we also have the word "hiisi", which translates to "goblin". "Hiisi" originally meant something entirely different a lot more monstrous to my understanding. But our official LOTR translation used the word "hiisi" for goblins, which stuck. (I think I'll actually make a separate post about this. This is so funny. :P )
So I wanted to make something like a "maahinen", a Harry Potter type of goblin but more dwarven-like.
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I was looking for a suitable race for my new transmutation wizard. I wanted something a tad exotic, but somewhat familiar. I had a hard time finding a nice species for my character, so I reskinned/reflavored an existing one.
Here is the Gobledwarf or Lepre-Dwarf
Dalle 2 Collection (Don't mind the text prompts, I've gathered this collection from a series of failed, but beautiful images)
Suitable game-mechanical races for Gobledwarves are for example Mark of Warding Dwarves, Mark of Scribing Gnomes and Deep Gnomes.
What are they?
-Gobledwarves are distant relatives of dwarves, typically found deep underground or in other exotic places.
-Highly magical creatures who like to live in magical places, absorbing that surrounding magic from before they are born
-The surrounding magical energies give them their exotic and unique appearance, which can sometimes make them quite monstrous even.
-Because of these physical changes, they come in many shapes and sizes. They are either medium or small. Some are stocky like dwarves, but generally they are a bit smaller and nimbler than their dwarven relatives.
-Distinguishing features: Long and pointy ears, innate magical abilities, goblin-like facial features, big noses
-Come equipped with all sorts of alignments and personalities, but in our setting they have a cultural tendency towards Chaotic and highly task-oriented
-Often come off as super-focused on their personal tasks/interests. Their long lives allow them to focus on narrow subjects for extended periods of times.
-Live up to 350 years, sometimes even longer
-Often quirky and clever
-Magic and intelligence is highly valued
-They don't mind the words gobledwarf or lepre-dwarf, but they prefer to use their clan names, because their clan refers to their region and their region gives them their unique features. My character is of the Creftlan-Dreblin-region, so he refers to his race as a "creft"
What is this based on?
This is actually quite difficult to explain in english. It's a funny language barrier.
In Finnish, we have the term "maahinen", which would probably be closest to what goblins are like in Harry Potter. But goblin means a very different thing in DnD and many other english sources. And we have the word "menninkäinen", which is more like a DnD goblin. But we also have the word "hiisi", which translates to "goblin". "Hiisi" originally meant something entirely different a lot more monstrous to my understanding. But our official LOTR translation used the word "hiisi" for goblins, which stuck. (I think I'll actually make a separate post about this. This is so funny. :P )
So I wanted to make something like a "maahinen", a Harry Potter type of goblin but more dwarven-like.
Finland GMT/UTC +2