Originally Posted by Zerubbabel
Okay clarification:
Are goblins vermin or fully sapient beings? Because some people on this forum talk about goblins like they’re innately evil rodents, and others talk about them like they’re people.
D&D says they are monsters. Take that as you will.

If they are capable of thought and are aware of "being" then they are, by our worlds definition, sapient.

Nobody had problems accepting Deekin as a sapient being because he was, what most consider, good. Other times kobold were just seen as vermin.

If Sazza was a good goblin people's take on them as a race would change I believe.