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Goblin Slayer prompts smug DM to talk about how he'd punish players for not killing baby goblins
(hexbear.net)
The only naive mistake on any players' part would be playing with this guy in the first place
Pinging @UlyssesT@hexbear.net because I know you hate this stuff too
Eberron does it well too; the goblins in the city of (can't remember) were once majorly advanced, but then ~~white~~ barbarian people happened, now they live poverty stricken in slums.
I'm kind of reminded of a game from childhood, Radiata Stories, where they handle goblin as sentient people with their own culture and agency. Unfortunately the plot forces a zero sum game upon the human and humanoid (non-human in the game) people for their survival.
Speaking of, Runescape does the goblin thing quite well with the variety of tribes from what I remember of the quests.
You beat me to RuneScape. For the most part RuneScape does it really well.
One of the best written characters in the game is a cave goblin named Zanik, and her group of goblins are largely pacifists. Even some of the “regular” goblins get their characterization explained by the propaganda of Bandos, who is a textbook fascist. I believe the text is called goblin book or something, but even that book tells Bandos followers not to think, and that loyalty should never be questioned.