If you could be any mystical/fantasy creature...

[Barking Dog]

Robin Goodfellow is a general name you'd call any fairy, just as you'd call them the Gentry, Fair Folk, the neighbors, lords and ladies etc. It's unlucky not to use some bland euphemism, otherwise you might inadvertantly get their attention. Puck really isn't a proper name either and (this is just a WAG) is probably a bastardized form of phouka. Or I might just be utterly wrong.

[Inner Stickler]

The old welsh spirit of mischief bwci became bukka became puka became puck. You called them Robin Goodfellow because to name the devil is to call him and you didn't necessarily want to attract the attention of a hobgoblin.

[Alessan]

Originally Posted by Barking Dog

Robin Goodfellow is a general name you'd call any fairy, just as you'd call them the Gentry, Fair Folk, the neighbors, lords and ladies etc. It's unlucky not to use some bland euphemism, otherwise you might inadvertantly get their attention. Puck really isn't a proper name either and (this is just a WAG) is probably a bastardized form of phouka. Or I might just be utterly wrong.

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.

- Pterry.

[Tom Scud]

Nice, and accurate.

[Barking Dog]

Originally Posted by Inner Stickler

The old welsh spirit of mischief bwci became bukka became puka became puck. You called them Robin Goodfellow because to name the devil is to call him and you didn't necessarily want to attract the attention of a hobgoblin.

If I'm not mistaken, hob is another word for hearth; making a hobgoblin a spirit of the home, and thus indirectly a spirit of order. Not something like the spriggan or kelpie, a mad puck thing of the wild.

[Barking Dog]

Originally Posted by Alessan

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.

- Pterry.

"Up the airy moutains and down the rushing glen, we don't go a-hunting for fear of little men. Wee folk, men folk trooping all together. Green jacket, red cap, and white owl's feather.
Down the rushing hillsides and through the rocks so bare, they've planted thorn tree for pleasure here and there. And any man so daring as to dig them up in spite, shall find the sharpest thorn tree in his bed at night!" - unknown

[Inner Stickler]

Generally speaking a hobgoblin is any of a number of fey creatures that enjoy mischief. For some, like the brownies, the hob part has taken over. For others, the goblin part is stronger and they're wilder and more malicious. It's best to think of it as a continuum with brownies on the hob end and things like boggarts on the goblin end and in the middle are all sorts of creatures with varying degrees of animosity.

[Barking Dog]

It seems to me that goblins are synomomous with elves, ie. and general descriptor for spirit creatures, whereas a hobgoblin is a very specific kind of fairy. A hobgoblin is not inherently benign. It is a creature of the hearth, ie. fire. Many stories tell of hobs setting fire to a house if it doesn't feel it is properly fed or respected.
All I'm saying is, whether good or evil, the hobgoblin exists as a creature of the home. Specifically.

[Clothahump]

A 300 year old turtle wizard!!!

[Inner Stickler]

Well, you're allowed to classify them as you wish, but traditionally there's nothing that says a hobgoblin is specifically a home spirit. Hobs, yes. Hobgoblins, no.

[Malleus, Incus, Stapes!]

Does "shapeshifter" count, or do I need to be more specific?

[elfkin477]

Originally Posted by Malleus, Incus, Stapes!

Does "shapeshifter" count, or do I need to be more specific?

Be more specific. There are already some named in this thread(pookah & kitsune for example), but there are a lot more in mythologies if occasionally turning into a canine or horse doesn't do it for you. You could turn into a crow, or a seal, or a crocodile, or a snake or...

[Malleus, Incus, Stapes!]

Is there any type of shapeshifter that turns into a cat?

Otherwise, the naga and kitsune options sound good.

[elfkin477]

Originally Posted by Malleus, Incus, Stapes!

Is there any type of shapeshifter that turns into a cat?

Otherwise, the naga and kitsune options sound good.

In some stories Cait Sìth is a witch who transforms into a cat. I find the wiki page lacking because it fails to mention that Cait Sìth is a BIG cat.

[DrDeth]

Originally Posted by Malleus, Incus, Stapes!

Is there any type of shapeshifter that turns into a cat?

Otherwise, the naga and kitsune options sound good.

Rakshasa.
Tibbits.
Were-tiger.

[Malleus, Incus, Stapes!]

Originally Posted by elfkin477

In some stories Cait Sìth is a witch who transforms into a cat. I find the wiki page lacking because it fails to mention that Cait Sìth is a BIG cat.

Sounds good to me!




(Is the opposite of Cait Sith a Cait Jedi?)

[BrassyPhrase]

I'd be a Titanide from Varley's Titan/Wizard/Demon trilogy. Basically centaurs, but they all present (in the human part) as female. (If I remember correctly, the horse part is what determines gender.) Tough, fierce, smart and they LOVE music.

[cher3]

A mermaid or some kind of flying thing. Not a dragon, though, because of all the aggro.

I think I already am a hobbit.

[BrotherCadfael]

Whatta buncha losers!

The answer, of course, is incubus!

[tadtooornamental]

I'm the first to think phoenix, really? How BA is it to not only live forever, but to not age and still be able to change? Also: reborn out of your own charred corpse? Lengendary.

[Chimera]

A 3.5e D&D Bronze Dragon.

If I kept the same age category (Old) as I am now, I'd be ludicrously tough, breath lightning and repulsion gas, be able to polymorph to Human (or other) form, Fly (of course), wicked Fear Aura if I so chose, breath water, speak to animals, immune to electrical damage, create food and water, and detect people's thoughts.

Yeah, I could do that.

[Malleus, Incus, Stapes!]

Really? I'd have you'd be, well, a chimera.

[Chimera]

Originally Posted by Malleus, Incus, Stapes!

Really? I'd have you'd be, well, a chimera.

Lol. Of course How silly of me.

[YogSosoth]

Dragon. I've been wanting to be one of those all my life!

[NDP]

Originally Posted by Clothahump

A 300 year old turtle wizard!!!

Drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drome. Time for this one to come home.

[phxjcc]

Bond. James Bond.

Anything you can dream up, Q will have an answer for it.

[sahirrnee]

saw this on another board
"I'd like to be a unicorn so I can stab all the fucktards with my horn"
.
So I'd like to be a unicorn,
a beautiful unicorn with a long flowing mane and tail,
braided with flowers and ribbons,
neat little polished hooves that glitter with precious stones,
and iridescent wings that sparkle in the light

and I snort fire,
and shit brimstone
and my horn drips with blood.

[T-Rex Arms]

Vampire - eternal youth, please and thanks.

Oh, but not the sparkly kind.