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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 7580425" data-attributes="member: 6801845"><p>I think comparing a D&D campaign to a comic book that has been around for more than half a century is pointless. </p><p></p><p>As far as Salvatore ... yes at one point Drizzt met what he thought was a "good" goblin. Then in a recent book his wife flat out states that goblins are evil because her deity told her so. His response? "Huh. Guess I was wrong." It's literally less than a page in the book that totally upends several previous story arcs.</p><p></p><p>Whether a racial alignment is "nature", "nurture" or some combination of both is up to the DM. Salvatore/FR tries to have it both ways and, in my opinion, fails.</p><p></p><p>In my campaigns, evil creature are evil by nature. Orcs are sentient but not human. I'm not going to be brow-beat into agreeing that I am running my campaign "wrong" just because you run your campaign differently.</p><p></p><p>Yes, alignment is a simplification. I'm assuming that all orcs are evil because the MM says they are. It's no more a simplification than any number of things like AC or HP. Want to house rule that orcs aren't always evil or have a society where obviously evil monsters run around civilized lands? Have fun.</p><p></p><p>But it's also common in stories that some things are just monsters. Nobody would expect a xenomorph from Aliens to integrate into society, why the insistence that a DM must allow all races?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 7580425, member: 6801845"] I think comparing a D&D campaign to a comic book that has been around for more than half a century is pointless. As far as Salvatore ... yes at one point Drizzt met what he thought was a "good" goblin. Then in a recent book his wife flat out states that goblins are evil because her deity told her so. His response? "Huh. Guess I was wrong." It's literally less than a page in the book that totally upends several previous story arcs. Whether a racial alignment is "nature", "nurture" or some combination of both is up to the DM. Salvatore/FR tries to have it both ways and, in my opinion, fails. In my campaigns, evil creature are evil by nature. Orcs are sentient but not human. I'm not going to be brow-beat into agreeing that I am running my campaign "wrong" just because you run your campaign differently. Yes, alignment is a simplification. I'm assuming that all orcs are evil because the MM says they are. It's no more a simplification than any number of things like AC or HP. Want to house rule that orcs aren't always evil or have a society where obviously evil monsters run around civilized lands? Have fun. But it's also common in stories that some things are just monsters. Nobody would expect a xenomorph from Aliens to integrate into society, why the insistence that a DM must allow all races? [/QUOTE]
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