🏛️ The Town Hall

I'm the person behind Fantasy Goblin.

I originally built the rankings stuff because I wanted it for myself. Somewhere along the way that turned into goblins, shops, towns, shirts, experiments, and increasingly unnecessary things.

Fantasy Goblin is mostly where I mess around with fantasy football and build things I think are fun.

I tried treating Fantasy Goblin like a product.

The problem was that once I asked people to pay for it, I felt responsible for building what customers wanted and making sure it was worth the money.

That changed what I was building.

I have a lot more fun making things I think are interesting, even when they make absolutely no business sense.

So the fantasy tools are free, and I build whatever I feel like building.

If somebody likes the project and wants to support it, there's merch. But that isn't why Fantasy Goblin exists.

Once I stopped worrying about making Fantasy Goblin into a normal product, I started following the ideas I actually enjoyed.

I've always loved sword-and-shield fantasy — the enormous worlds, deep histories, strange characters, and bits of lore hiding around every corner. Stories like The Wheel of Time, The Realm of the Elderlings, and the Cosmere are a big part of why Fantasy Goblin turned into more than a collection of fantasy football tools.

Goblinville is where that stuff goes — characters, locations, fantasy resources, experiments, eventually games, and whatever else I end up making.

There really isn't much more of a plan than that.

There's more fantasy information available than ever.

I think the point is to take all of that in and make your own call.

Fantasy Goblin started because I wanted one place to maintain my own rankings, keep little notes about why I ranked somebody where I did, and then actually trust my board.

Use everybody else's rankings, articles, podcasts, stats and opinions as information.

But at the end of it, make your own decision.