| From: | John Dukes <dukes@*******.NET> |
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| Subject: | Re: Dark Conspiracy (Was - Re: FASA Being Sold? Semi-OT?) |
| Date: | Sat, 19 Jul 1997 09:30:07 -0500 |
>Wow, wait a minuit, are you telling me that at one time orks and goblins
>were thought of as the same thing!! I always thought of them as totaly
>diferent races, they are adn will always be in my head totaly different.
>(I can't see the goblins in anybody's books the same as any oof my SR
>characters, That would just spoil my day!) Well I gues The Fantasy gener
>is still under construction, where will it go next? and we learn
>somthing new every day on the ShadowRN discusion group!
>
In Tolkiens "The Hobbit" Bilbo refers to the orcs as goblins throught the
book. In the later ring trilogy they say something to the extent of "Mr.
Bilbo mistakenly called the orcs goblins." I think other RPGs like AD&D
always considered goblins to be smaller but more viciously intelligent
versions of orcs. Orcs are typically portrayed in fantasy gaming as hulking
barbarian brutes, where the weaker goblins often use crazy weapons of mass
destruction to do their evil. Personally I think the goblin grenadiers
flying around in goblin zephalins (I have no idea how to spell zephalin :) )
firing goblin bombs from a goblin catapult are much cooler.
John
