Unusual animals for the goblin niche?

[Ry]

In my campaign, the word [animal]-gren denotes "gobliney version of the animal in question"

But I don't want to be too predictable.

In the past, my campaigns have featured ratgren, batgren, and vulturegren, but I don't want to be too predictable. Does anyone have good suggestsions on unusual animals that when made vaguely humanoid would help illustrate the goblin niche?

 

[Tonguez]

IMC goblins are amphibians so any kind of Amphibian could work ergo

Toadgren, Newtgren, Axolotlgren - Humanoid Axolotls could be cool

Alternatively

Mandrilgren, Naked-mole-rat-gren

 

[Corvidae]

there was an old shareware game called exile that had goblin bears.

Basically, think of bear sized moles.

They dug, they stunk, they collected refuse.
goblins

John

 

[Mycanid]

Tonguez - that beastie on the bottom is one of the wierdest looking things I ever saw. If I saw a 10 foot high at the shoulder version scurrying at ME out of a hole I'd run the other way!

 

[Nyaricus]

there was an old shareware game called exile that had goblin bears.

Basically, think of bear sized moles.

They dug, they stunk, they collected refuse.
goblins

John

Cool!!

Rusty-gren - goblins wearing leather armour with hide shields and clubs riding rust monsters

See also: The feared Horned Ape-dog, a grotesque guardian used by goblins and the Peguat-gren, a scavenger who follow goblins around eating refuse, sometimes becoming familiars to goblin arcanists.

 

[genshou]

there was an old shareware game called exile that had goblin bears.

Basically, think of bear sized moles.

They dug, they stunk, they collected refuse.
goblins

John

I loved those little beasties, almost as much as I loved blasting them away.