D&D General Fantasy cannibalism, a theoretical philosophy discussion

[generic]

Pun aside, in a proper darksun campaign halflings and thrikreen eat anything humanoid (well thrikreen might eat anything that moves), even their fallen comrades.
This is about the only scenario, apart form some obscene horror setting, where this situation might come up at my table.

And then it would probably be in the form of some RP lecturing that people are not rations, and the Halfling has to suppress his traditional habits, to be sociable .

Obscene horror? That's my specialty.

Vile imagery, terrible villains, and yes, cannibalism are my stock and trade!

 

[Wiseblood]

Obscene horror? That's my specialty.

Vile imagery, terrible villains, and yes, cannibalism are my stock and trade!

Remember “When we DM, we are monsters.”

 

[generic]

Remember “When we DM, we are monsters.”

Of course, which is why my villains are sociopaths whose crimes exceed many measures of evil and cruelty. That's normal... right?

 

[Fenris-77]

Of course, which is why my villains are sociopaths whose crimes exceed many measures of evil and cruelty. That's normal... right?

It's my normal, so it might as well be yours too. Maybe we should have a club... we could have sleepovers with pillow fights and we could paint people's toenails after we pull them out with pliers.

 

[generic]

It's my normal, so it might as well be yours too. Maybe we should have a club... we could have sleepovers with pillow fights and we could paint people's toenails after we pull them out with pliers.

I laughed, out loud. Shame me all you want.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Obscene horror? That's my specialty.

Vile imagery, terrible villains, and yes, cannibalism are my stock and trade!

Mmmmm...homebrewed stock!

(Yes, Hannibal was one of the best cooking shows on TV, IMHO.)

 

[Wiseblood]

Of course, which is why my villains are sociopaths whose crimes exceed many measures of evil and cruelty. That's normal... right?

That sounds like my PC’s. FWIW I am a player in OotA I was allowed to be a lizard man. I see it as inevitable that I will eat a sentient creature sometime. Eat or be eaten.

 

[Eltab]

That sounds like my PC’s. FWIW I am a player in OotA I was allowed to be a lizard man. I see it as inevitable that I will eat a sentient creature sometime. Eat or be eaten.

Thri-keen in Dark Sun, too.

 

[Samloyal23]

I think some of you may have glossed over this: no heroes killed any other heroes here. One of them starved out, which probably means there was no meat left on his bones anyway. (See the movie, Seven, for a good starvation reference/visual.)

The heroes can choose to be "heroes" and not eat Mr. Boney, but I guess the implication here is that they'd have died if they didn't? So sure, take the noble route and don't eat him. The next to die will provide, give or take, twice as much temptation to eat the skinny dead. Next: a pile of dead, emaciated, but still heroic heroes.

I really can't decide what the duty-of-resurrection-care is here, because 1) 2500 gold could be a fortune or a drop-in-the-bucket, and 2) what makes sense anymore, when resurrecting someone is a financial decision?


So, I'd recommend against the Book of Vile Darkness for you then. Unless, that is, you've just the slightest amount of curiosity about the dark side. Mwa ha ha...


A corpse isn't a sentient being. Zero intelligence, trust me.

A corpse isn't sentient? Tell that to Vecna...

 

[Fenris-77]

Vecna isn't a corpse, he's a liche. I'm sure there's a deep ontological argument to made there, but I'm really just rolling with common usage. From a utilitarian standpoint we're really just talking about the difference between jerky and steak, but there you go.