The martial advantage ability that Hobgoblins have remains appropriate for our Shadow Goblins and is part of the reason we used Hobgoblin as a template. Go ahead and click on the dropdown box and select the new alignment. Step 2 - ALIGNMENT field is currently Lawful Evil, but we've decided that the power of the shadow artefact is aligned with chaos, so it is appropriate for our Shadow Goblins to be Chaotic Evil instead. Step 1 - MONSTER NAME field currently contains, 'COPY_OF_Hobgoblin' so click on that field and change that to the name of our new monster, 'Shadow Goblin' or you can call it something different if you prefer. Let's make some changes to create our new monster! The first section, and what you are likely looking at currently, looks like this: The page that shows up next is pretty big and has a LOT of fields for all of the various data that we can edit for our monster! To make the page easier to use, it is broken down into a number of sections that can be expanded and collapsed. Then select Hobgoblin from the MONSTER drop down.

We want to create our new monster based on the existing Hobgoblin template, so on the new page, select the MONSTER TYPE of Humanoid, as this will reduce the number of monsters to scroll through in the MONSTER dropdown. The main opponents in these woods are going to be a large tribe of Hobgoblin that are worshipping an artefact that is causing the shadow influence, so we're going to create a variant of the Hobgoblin.įrom the homebrew landing page, click on the CREATE HOMEBREW MONSTER button. We've decided that the magics from the shadow dimension have sufficiently changed some of the standard creatures in the area that they have additional abilities. First off, some themed opposition for our player characters.

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