Why are gargoyles evil?

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Bootlebat

Explorer

• Feb 27, 2019

• #1

This never made sense to me considering real life gargoyles were intended to scare away demons and the like, so wouldn't it make more sense for intelligent gargoyles to be good?

 

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Sword of Spirit

Legend

• Feb 27, 2019

• #2

Gargoyle statuary in D&D is designed to keep monstrous gargoyles away by being built on the spots the creatures would otherwise want to perch on.

 

Mistwell

Crusty Old Meatwad (he/him)

• Feb 27, 2019

• #3

It's all the bird poop.

Puts one in a fowl mood.

 

pukunui

Legend

• Feb 27, 2019

• #4

According to 5e lore, Ogremoch created gargoyles as a mockery of creatures of elemental air like aarakocra.

 

ParanoydStyle

Peace Among Worlds

• Feb 27, 2019

• #5

I too have always thought this was strange. It made more sense to me for gargoyles to have a neutral alignment, whether fluffed as animated statues or as HUMANOIDS vaguely associated with Elemental Earth. How did the Aarakokra get off of Krynn I'M SO CONFUSED

(but then again I like the idea of the occasional gargoyle PC)

 

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Azzy

ᚳᚣᚾᛖᚹᚢᛚᚠ

• Feb 27, 2019

• #6

It's because they have hearts of stone.

 

ccs

41st lv DM

• Feb 27, 2019

• #7

ParanoydStyle said:

How did the Aarakokra get off of Krynn I'M SO CONFUSED

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Aarakokra 1st appeared in the 1e Fiend Folio back in '81 - a few years before DL/Krynn even existed.

As for gargoyles alignment? Evil, Neutral, Good, something else.... I can't say it's ever come up in all the years I've been playing this game.

 

Oofta

Legend

• Feb 27, 2019

• #8

Because they aren't these guys?

 

Bitbrain

Lost in Dark Sun

• Feb 27, 2019

• #9

Why are gargoyles evil?

Because in my setting, they're flesh-eating Weeping Angels.

 

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MechaTarrasque

Hero

• Feb 27, 2019

• #10

Bootlebat said:

This never made sense to me considering real life gargoyles were intended to scare away demons and the like, so wouldn't it make more sense for intelligent gargoyles to be good?

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Since in D&D, gargoyles look like devils, maybe they still scare away demons. If the Blood War has taught us anything, scaring demons doesn't necessarily make you good.