the art of goatball

Goliath's Guide to Goatball

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Table Of Contents

Goliath's Guide to
GoatBall

Love of competition - 1
History - 1

Goatball

Participating in Goatball - 2

Throwing
Intercepting
Shoving
Winning

The Art of GoatBallhe sport of goatball has been a goliath Vox Machina's Introduction to Goatball
pasttime for generations. Teams compete by
jumping between platforms while catching a Pike: What’s goatball?
goat-skinned ball all while avoiding being Shale: It’s a game you play. You stand on pillars of rock, and

Tknocked off. It's simple yet elogant and fast- you hurl balls at each other.
paced and thrilling. Okay, so it may not be that Vex: Made of goats?
elegant, but it's entertaining. Shale: Made of goatskins. Skins, my dear.
Keyleth: Sounds kind of fun.
love of competition Shale: The object of the game is to knock the other

Goliath's love a good competition. Any chance to prove opponents off their pillars.
themselves at something is a way to earn glory and honor
among their tribe and others. While fighting is one way to Goatball in 3.5 D&D
prove themselves, many would rather take part in contests of
strength, dexterity, or vitality. These aspects allow them to Goatball was first introduced in the 3.5 campaign guidebook
learn from a victory or defeat to either train to improve their Races of Stone published in August of 2004 by David
skills or celebrate a win. Noonan and Jesse Decker.

History

No one really knows how or when goatball was invented but
there are rumors of its inception. One says two goliath tribes
couldn't decide on who was the rightful owner of land. They
fought for days but niether tribe could overpower the other.

Then one day, a young goliath was skinning a goat when
they discovered a new use for the hide. Not one to waste any
part of the animal, the goliath pieced together a few strips of
skin and sewed them around pieces of hay and fur. The end
result was a lumpy ball.

The goliath ran to show their leader but ran into a member
of the opposing tribe who had their own lumpy goat skinned
ball. The young goliath learned the other member had been
watching them and made their own to see whose was better.
Both quickly ran to their leaders to prove they made the ball
first.

The following day the fighting stopped as the two leaders
met on the battlefield, each holding their own goatball. The
goliaths agreed the first to hit the other with the goatball
would be the rightful owner of the land. And thus the game of
goatball was invented.

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Goatballhe game of goatball is played by setting up one Participating in Goatball
to two dozen platforms - typically boulders, The rules for goatball have been updated from the original
trees, and stumps - on the ground in a random 3.5 D&D module to fit with 5E.
pattern. Two teams of four climb on top of
Throwing
Tadjacent platforms, and a referee places the
goatball on a platform roughly equeidistant Throwing the goatball at an opponent is considered a ranged
away from the two teams. The players then attack. Every nongoliath player takes a -4 penalty to their
leap from platform to platform, each trying to be the first to throw for not being proficient in handling the lumpy and
reach the ball. nearly impossible to hold goatball. Throwing the ball to an
ally is also a ranged attack, except they must subtract their
The team with the first player to reach the ball is on Dexterity modifier when calculating the target's AC.
offense. The offensive team tries to complete three
consecutive passes between teammates on four different Intercepting
platforms. (You cannot pass the ball back and forth three
times, you must leap to a new platform and make the catch Players can intercept the goatball by being within 5 feet of
there). Once the offense has completed three passes, the the ball's path. They must make a ranged attack roll and get a
player with the ball can attempt to throw it at an opposing better result than that of the thrower.
player. The team on defense attemps to intercept the ball and
push opponents off platforms. Shoving

Anyone who falls off a platform (either due to missing a Players aren't considered fighting while playing goatball so
jump or because an opponent pushed them off) or gets hit by they can share the same platform (and the same square)
the ball is "out" and cannot participate until possession of the without a penalty. Shoving or pushing follows the rules
goatball changes and the two teams switch offense and presented in the Player's Handbook. Using the attack action,
deffense. Whenever the ball touches the ground (including players can make a special melee attack to shove a creature,
when the player carrying the ball touches the ground), either to knock it prone or push it away from you. The player
possession changes - unless the ball hits the ground after using the shove action makes a Strength (Athletics) check
successfully hitting an opponent, in which case the offense contested by the target's Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity
keeps the ball. A team wins if all of the opponents have been (Acrobatics) check. If you win the contest, you either knock
knocked out of the game at the same time. the target prone or push it 5 feet away from you.

winning

Players can win a game of goatball in one of several ways.
They must win a number of times equal to the challenge
rating of the entire losing team members. Or you could play
the first to three victories and so on and so forth.

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