Richard won't take hearts from goblins that are heavy smokers and drinkers. Half of them smoke about 2 packs a day and/or drink one or three six packs of beer. Then there is about 25% of them that are just cold HEARTLESS savages that want to eat your liver! The last 25% have hearts and you obtain them provided an arrow doesn't go threw 'em, they are not fried by a spell or you don't stab your sword threw them while you murder the goblin.
If you don't believe that BS (I sure as hell don't) then maybe your character isn't successful at tearing corpses apart and he screws up a lot. After all who needs surgeons in a world where you just give everyone that has a crushed skull, arrow sticking out their chest or broken leg a healing potion and they are all better.
Come on for God sake... use your imagination! Don't take things so stinking literal, it is a game for crying out loud lol.
