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TRINKETS! Trinketstrinketstrinkets— TRINNNNKETS! (I'm kind of a fan of trinkets, if you couldn't tell. ;-] )
This is a fairly decent and well-formatted list of 100 trinkets.
One downside of this list is that 19 objects on it begin with "A tiny..." and 2 either begin with or contain "a small", which were somewhat annoying to see over and over in a product about a small-sized creature and leave room for it to be argued that the other items in the list are anything other than goblin-sized.
Most of the trinkets lack any sort of "magical" aspect (e.g., one entry reads: "A tiny black gem") that most trinket lists have in overabundance, which makes this a much more flavorful list to add to your collection and for use in less-than-high-magic campaigns.
That said, it remains arguable that this list is "uninspired" as many of the items lack more than a handful of words to describe the items.
And I'm reminded of an old quote from "Men in Black" (1997):
Frank: "You humans. When're you gonna learn that size doesn't matter? Just 'cause something's important, doesn't mean it's not very, very small."
Agent K: "How small?!"
Frank: "Tiny. Like the size of a marble or a jewel."
This list keeps that concept alive with a lot of small items that could indeed be very important to a small Goblin, and leaves the item open enough for a DM or Player to decide exactly how or why the item would be important or magical, and without pre-determining a bunch of stats, skills, and dice rolls to associate with the items.
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