According to FedEx, hobgoblins are "gnomes, really angry gnomes."

They must have been worried about being derivative as well.

Wil Upchurch
Fantasy Flight Games
----- Original Message -----
From: Brad Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I find it interesting that Hobgoblins are portrayed as they are
anyway...the
> English myth for a Hobgoblin is nothing like what appears in D&D.
> Hobgoblins in myth are often characterized as benign and mischievous, and
> only became vicious if they were righting some wrong.  It has been
proposed
> that the character "Puck" in Shakespeare's Midsummernight's Dream was a
> traditional English Hobgoblin.


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