What Made the Goat Go Wrong?

“The only domestic animal known to return to feral life as swiftly as the cat is the goat.”

There in the barn, biding its time, watching the villagers go about their daily business, the goat waits. Something strange has happened to the goat, and it is no longer right. Yesterday, it was as normal as any other goat in the field. Now an uncanny intelligence burns behind its horizontal pupils.

What happened to the goat? Roll below to find out:

1. A skyrock landed in the back fields. The chromaspectral beings within changed the goat before they died.
2. A bored fae taught the goat to read and write for a laugh.
3. Long ago a mindlord’s ethership crashed near here. Its engines have slowly released mutagens into the soil. Fortunately, the goat ate most of it.
4. It’s not always demons, but often it is. This is one of those times.
5. The goat stayed out overnight, and the full moon’s light made it weird.
6. A passing saint blessed the goat. Now the goat seeks to free other goats from demonic domination.
7. The goat was found unconscious beside the alchemist’s garbage heap. No one knows what it ate, not even the alchemist, but the goat hasn’t been right since.
8. A terrifying night with nature cultists scared wits into the goat.
9. Those little red mushrooms that sprout in the cow pasture after the rain.
10. The goat saw a goat on a passing aristocrat’s coat of arms. The goat thinks it’s royalty now.
11. Drunk scholars kept the goat as a pet. The goat had the best manners of them all.
12. Unknown to all, the goat’s descended from the Thunder God’s pets. A single thunderclap was all it took.
13. The goat is the chosen one. It was supposed to be the orphan swineherd, but destiny’s arm slipped. Now only the goat can save the world.
14. One too many head-buts with a rival goat.
15. A passing fiddler played in the fields and the music was enough to make the goat dance.
16. The goat is the last great project of Vinssloss Nerkutt, the legendary animal trainer.
17. One of the goat’s parent’s was a dragon in disguise. The goat may occasionally breathe fire.
18. A voice on the wind gave the goat a true name before disappearing.
19. A recently deceased soul has been reborn inside the goat. The goat must finish a task the soul failed to do.
20. It is better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. Heartbreak made the goat strange.

If you would like to see the full playable goat class for your tabletop games, it’s available for free on my patreon: THE UNCANNY GOAT.

Enjoy!