Goblins Need Cake

RPG system: Goblin Quest
Participants: 3-5 players

By

Tuomas Halkola

Description

Tags: Beginner friendly, English or finnish

Styles: Light game style, Rules light

So the great Goblin Chieftain wants to impress the grandest of the wizards who is celebrating its 500th birthday. Problem is that goblins seldomly live long enough to know what this "birthday" is. But what the Chieftain does know is that you need Cake. So he has seen it wise to send you and your spawn mates to acquire (steal) this Cake from the humans.

Fortunately for your bunch, the nearby human town is celebrating what they call a "royal wedding" and it seems to involve Cake. Now all you need is to pull off your first ever heist. It can't be that hard, can it?

This game will be run using Goblin Quest (by Grant Howitt) and is very light-hearted. At the start of the game each player creates their own clutch of five goblins. Each player playing one of their goblins at a time, will fumble through their possibly epic quest and lose goblins to dangers along the way (such as human guards, deep moats, hot fires, lute music, eating too much). The game can be easily left early if necessary. Suitable for younger players, but does involve (mostly accidental and very slapstick) violence towards the goblins.

Note: the game does not include real-life cake.
Content warnings: Cartoonish violence

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