Only a few Goblins Collector survived the war and the myconid purge, these colossal fungus live a nomadic live, travelling between caverns that are large enough to accommodate their size.
The symbiotic goblins work well together and are good fungus collectors. They live in the birthing chambers situated in the hunchback of the Goblins Collector, some goblin build crude structures on their collector.
The birthing chambers are interconnected by a network of passages and secondary chambers that ressemble a small caverns network that can be explored like a dungeon. The connecting tunnels being goblin sized, most adventurers would have to walk on their knees to crawl through them. The symbiotic goblins take good cares of these chambers and will hunt any parasites that tries to settle in.
Other goblins tribes respect the goblins collectors because they usually travel in the periphery of their tribal territories and serve as a border patrol. They are tolerated since they are too big to venture into the tribe's tunnels, a few goblins get assimilated by the collector, but this is ok, in a sense these goblins are only joining a new tribe.
Goblins collectors have between 6 to 9 HD. They slowly regen HP by eating fungus or by assimilating goblins (and other beings).
- AC: as leather
- Attacks: trampling for 2d8 dmg.
- or d6 pseudopods attacks that do a d6 damages.
- ML: 8
- On a failed ML test, the Collector release a cloud of confusion spores and retreat.
- Confusions spores make people wander in random directions for 2d6 rounds (saves half the duration). (Characters can remain still to avoid wandering around)
Collectors are accompanied by a d6 of goblins for each of their HD. The collector lose a HP when one of their goblin die.
Creatures killed by their pseudopods are ingested, then digested or assimilated.
Goblins will always be assimilated and heal the Collector by their amount of HP.
If a adventurer get ingested and make a constitution save, they are reborn 2d6 turns later into one of the birthing chambers of the hunchback.
Roll a d12 on the goblin rebirth table (goblins roll a d8):
- You are reborn as 2d3 goblins.
- You are reborn as 2 goblins.
- You are reborn as a goblin.
- You are reborn as a goblin.
- You are reborn as a goblin.
- You are reborn as a goblin that will grow into a hobgoblin.
- You are reborn as a goblin that will grow into a bugbear.
- You are reborn as a goblin collector hybrid.
- You are reborn as a random level 1 character of the same class and specie.
- You are reborn as two level 1 copies of yourself (play both)
- You are reborn as two copies of yourself, one is a NPC who think they are e a goblin.
- You are reborn as a copy of yourself.
- A character reborn as a goblin can be played as a goblin character class (HD: d6).
- If a character is reborn as multiple goblins, the player play all of them.
- Characters that grow into other goblinoids grow in size as they level up.
- Reborn characters have a hard time remembering who they are (ask for WIS tests to remember stuff).
- A reborn character get 2 points of reaction bonus when dealing with goblins of their collector's tribe.
- Characters reborn as humans have infravision and the goblin's weakness to sunlight.
- A character reborn as a goblin collector hybrid are reborn as a female goblin that can devour dead goblins to assimilate them into the tribe. A devoured goblin will heal the hybrid by their amount of HP, left over HP heal the Collector. When eating a goblin, the hybrid must make a saving throw, on a fail the assimilated goblin will be reborn in her womb (instead of a birthing chamber). This pregnancy last 2d6 days. This baby goblin mature in a number of days equal to their total HP. These goblins share traits with their "mother" and will follow her as a hireling. Hybrids grow in size as they level up, up to ogre size at level 8. Note: if the pregnancy stuff cross a player's line, all the devoured goblins are reborn in the birthing chambers.
