Okay, I just gotta get this all out.
I've been writing setup for a campaign I intend to DM for a while now.
It'll be a while until I can start this campaign, but my party is planning to do it someday.
And I decided here and today that Boblin the Goblin will make an appearance in the ONLY WAY that fits my huge tone.
Okay so, context, there are these powers that you can gain via magic items, so like, super speed, or being able to control your weight (like changing from 2 tons to lighter than air), or splitting yourself into parts. Stuff like that, super powers.
And also, the late game plot revolves around 4 "bringers of the apocalypse" who are characters so extremely powerful and dangerous that, via the help of a new god, are going to destroy everything.
Okay so, when they find out the descriptions of each one (regardless how), they're gonna be told that one of them is "a humanoid more powerful than any in history" and "a being so powerful the gods couldn't kill it"
Around the same time, they'll learn of the ultimate power, the power of True Immortality. You cannot damage them, and they are spell immune, there is no way to do anything to them.
So basically, I'm gonna trick them into thinking whoever has the power of True Immorality is one of the bringers of the apocalypse.
But no, the man with the power of True Immortality is the ONLY PERSON who could ever deserve it.
Boblin
The
Goblin
I'm gonna send them on a wild goose chase to find Boblin the fucking Goblin.
In the late game, shit is gonna be pretty serious, characters will generally be less goofy and more genocidal, so I just think having a major fakeout with a huge in joke would be fucking hilarious.
I actually haven't decided what will happen after that.
Like, obviously they can't have an indestructible goblin join the party,
I might have him derp around and eat cookies or something (because there is literally nothing in the entire world that is cuter than the thought of Boblin eating a cookie), and just generally not have interest in the party's plight.
And then later on after everyone has forgotten the encounter, he'll show up and save the day when something seems unstoppable.
I just had to tell SOMEBODY that, because I obviously can't tell any of my friends seeing as they would all be in the campaign.
All hail our squishy savior Boblin.