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Fanatics & Zealots: How to Use Extremism in Antagonists and Villains in Your Campaigns (+)
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<blockquote data-quote="Ixal" data-source="post: 8540330" data-attributes="member: 7030132"><p>I am not really impressed with those examples. All of them are rather over the top.</p><p></p><p>The first one is a racial war and not necessary political, even though there is a real world example of this. But actual political extremists are, as the name says, political. People who want to depose monarchs in favour of a republic/other system of government. Or even pretenders to the throne can all be called political extremists.</p><p>It doesn't help that most peoples understanding of political extremists are geared towards modern politics and not the political systems in the past which are more often used as inspiration to fantasy settings.</p><p>Sadly the article fails to translate this understanding of political extremism into a fantasy setting. I also disagree with many examples given like Thanos.</p><p></p><p>The other categories are equally faulty in my eyes, completely ignoring the actual religious or philosophical underpinnings and how they would translate into a fantasy setting, and instead are just variants of "genocidal maniacs who call upon a god" and "genocidal maniacs who deny that a god told them to do it".</p><p></p><p>This of course would also mean that you need a more nuanced look at extremism instead of painting it as always evil. The underground organization freeing slaves and trying to overthrow the slavery system of a country with, among other things, violent means, would be political extremists, but not villains for example unless you do a grimdark "slippery slope" scenario.</p><p></p><p>All your examples also unnecessarily draw upon racial lines which muddles the, already not well defined extremism in this article, even further.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ixal, post: 8540330, member: 7030132"] I am not really impressed with those examples. All of them are rather over the top. The first one is a racial war and not necessary political, even though there is a real world example of this. But actual political extremists are, as the name says, political. People who want to depose monarchs in favour of a republic/other system of government. Or even pretenders to the throne can all be called political extremists. It doesn't help that most peoples understanding of political extremists are geared towards modern politics and not the political systems in the past which are more often used as inspiration to fantasy settings. Sadly the article fails to translate this understanding of political extremism into a fantasy setting. I also disagree with many examples given like Thanos. The other categories are equally faulty in my eyes, completely ignoring the actual religious or philosophical underpinnings and how they would translate into a fantasy setting, and instead are just variants of "genocidal maniacs who call upon a god" and "genocidal maniacs who deny that a god told them to do it". This of course would also mean that you need a more nuanced look at extremism instead of painting it as always evil. The underground organization freeing slaves and trying to overthrow the slavery system of a country with, among other things, violent means, would be political extremists, but not villains for example unless you do a grimdark "slippery slope" scenario. All your examples also unnecessarily draw upon racial lines which muddles the, already not well defined extremism in this article, even further. [/QUOTE]
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