However, like all of the fae folk, hobgoblins are easily annoyed.
A bugbear is depicted as a massive humanoid distantly related to goblins and hobgoblins.
From the third edition, the term goblinoid has been reserved for goblins, hobgoblins, norkers, and similar creatures.
This is a wilderness quest through a great forest, including encounters with hobgoblins, herbalists, and hill giants.
Other peoples find them paranoid, insulting, and dismissive, while hobgoblins in turn treat all others as potential threats.
In attempting to get it back, the hobgoblin became imprisoned in the tower, and all succeeding spires.
The term hobgoblin has grown to mean a superficial object that is a source of (often imagined) fear or trouble.
Powerful creatures such as bugbears, ogres, and trolls may occasionally assume leadership positions in a hobgoblin tribe, but normally act as front line muscle.