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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9258574" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Yeah, I played tabletop wargames and the like before TT RPGs, and yeah, actually playing an actual character in an actual world with morality and decisions and so on was a big part of what made RPGs special and appealing, and why I'd rather go to all the effort of running an RPG than just playing HeroQuest or the like.</p><p></p><p>I the people I played with kind of rebelled against the idea pretty early on - when I was 12 or 13, playing one of my first games as a player not a DM, we had a DM who was very much raised on the old-skool Gygaxian "genocide is good, actually" tropes, and we fought some orcs who had been raiding caravans and towns in the area, and killed them, and they had some small orc children. We were like "Oh no, we killed their parents because we had to but I guess they're out responsibility now", so immediately started planning how to get them somewhere safe to be raised, and the DM had his incredibly annoying DMPC Paladin butt in and try to tell us that no, we're supposed to just kill the baby orcs, because they might grow up to be evil, and we're like, nah that's because they're raised wrong, and the DM also being 12/13 he didn't really have a good response to that, and just sort of sputtered about how we had to or else the DMPC would be mad and we couldn't be Lawful Good if we didn't murder orc babies. I pointed out none of us was LG - we were all NG or CG - and we told the DMPC to go kick rocks (we'd have much rather he left entirely anyway!) and took the baby orcs to a monastery of Illmater we'd passed earlier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9258574, member: 18"] Yeah, I played tabletop wargames and the like before TT RPGs, and yeah, actually playing an actual character in an actual world with morality and decisions and so on was a big part of what made RPGs special and appealing, and why I'd rather go to all the effort of running an RPG than just playing HeroQuest or the like. I the people I played with kind of rebelled against the idea pretty early on - when I was 12 or 13, playing one of my first games as a player not a DM, we had a DM who was very much raised on the old-skool Gygaxian "genocide is good, actually" tropes, and we fought some orcs who had been raiding caravans and towns in the area, and killed them, and they had some small orc children. We were like "Oh no, we killed their parents because we had to but I guess they're out responsibility now", so immediately started planning how to get them somewhere safe to be raised, and the DM had his incredibly annoying DMPC Paladin butt in and try to tell us that no, we're supposed to just kill the baby orcs, because they might grow up to be evil, and we're like, nah that's because they're raised wrong, and the DM also being 12/13 he didn't really have a good response to that, and just sort of sputtered about how we had to or else the DMPC would be mad and we couldn't be Lawful Good if we didn't murder orc babies. I pointed out none of us was LG - we were all NG or CG - and we told the DMPC to go kick rocks (we'd have much rather he left entirely anyway!) and took the baby orcs to a monastery of Illmater we'd passed earlier. [/QUOTE]
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