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We;ve had a couple threads on the killing of goblin and orc children and how that goes with the palidin code, is it evil, blah blah blah. I am curious to take it in a meta game standpoint and I have a theory. The problem is the theory might be seen as dark. I think people with kids especially babies have a harder time in character killing goblin/orc babies. Because they envision the death of their own kid, or something like that. Is that to dark?
We;ve had a couple threads on the killing of goblin and orc children and how that goes with the palidin code, is it evil, blah blah blah. I am curious to take it in a meta game standpoint and I have a theory. The problem is the theory might be seen as dark. I think people with kids especially babies have a harder time in character killing goblin/orc babies. Because they envision the death of their own kid, or something like that. Is that to dark?
I don't think it's too dark. We are talking about fictional characters. Players are usually able to disassociate themselves better from the non-human characters, or at least the ones that look less human. Plus, I've seen a lot of posts in another thread, the one that actually started the new one, where people were looking at it from a D&D alignment perspective, i.e. "it says Goblins are evil in the MM so they can be killed," rather than from a personal, "they're only children!" perspective.
However, I think the topic is going to disintegrate into another "paladins suck" thread.
Me too. I've been told I play a very good paladin. I try to stay away from all the crap I see posted about "lawful stupid" and stick to tenets I have worked out with the DM. And I make sure that the other players are aware of said tenets and try to work out any "issues" our characters might have ahead of time. I've honestly never run across situations described where the paladin ends up becoming a joke or bullying everyone into doing what he wants them to do.
but then again i can add a whole lot of my own dark disturbing images to what evil goblin and orc babies will do.
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Lessseee...goblin and orc babies will cry, squirm, puke, poop, and pee. Just like halfling, dwarven, or human babies. Annoying, yes. Killing offenses? Probably not.
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Me too. I've been told I play a very good paladin. I try to stay away from all the crap I see posted about "lawful stupid" and stick to tenets I have worked out with the DM. And I make sure that the other players are aware of said tenets and try to work out any "issues" our characters might have ahead of time. I've honestly never run across situations described where the paladin ends up becoming a joke or bullying everyone into doing what he wants them to do.
Me neither. I generally play a paladin that follows his own code, but doesn't impose that code on others. (Actually, sometimes I play them so aloof that they don't even really notice the other characters - which is usually fine with them. )
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OMG! The SKY IS FALLING! --JoeGKushner
Myself, I plan to masturbate less -- der_kluge
I know that I've never really liked d20. I think it was designed by a bunch of hacks --- Monte Cook
I am sickened beyond belief. The half-orc wizard is obviously the best possible PC, and I only had to read 10 pages of the book to figure it out. D&D is dead to me! -- Mike Mearls
FWIW, I'm on the design team and I pretty much find WoW as fun and interesting as banging my head against a brick wall. -- Mike Mearls
you happen to say that 4E reminds you of the reasons you decided against a career as a special-Ed teacher--noted rpg author Darrin Drader
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