D&D General I really LOVE Stomping Goblins

[Scribe]

I’m just saying, they can either be complicated and interesting or be faceless kill-on-sight mooks. They can’t be both.

I dont think thats true at all, but how badly do we need another one of these 'debate the morality of fictional creatures' threads?

 

[Charlaquin]

The enemies were human soldiers. At times you would overhear their conversations. I assume all humans are complex, making them nameless grunts doesn't change anything. Yet I still killed them without remorse.

I mean… ok, I guess. We have pretty different moral compasses, you and I.

 

[Charlaquin]

I dont think thats true at all, but how badly do we need another one of these 'debate the morality of fictional creatures' threads?

I don’t know, ask @Reynard

 

[Scribe]

I don’t know, ask @Reynard

I must have missed where the thread was asking for a debate or putting up a dichotomy?

Seems more like the OP was a statement of an activity they enjoy, and one I dont begrudge, since in my 'career' as a gamer, I'm probably running up millions, 10's of millions, of slain foes.

Heck, fire up those strategy games (Stellaris for example) and I'm in the billions.

An utter monster.

 

[Oofta]

I mean… ok, I guess. We have pretty different moral compasses, you and I.

I simply accept that games are not real. Has nothing to do with real world morality.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

I must have missed where the thread was asking for a debate or putting up a dichotomy?

Seems more like the OP was a statement of an activity they enjoy, and one I dont begrudge, since in my 'career' as a gamer, I'm probably running up millions, 10's of millions, of slain foes.

Heck, fire up those strategy games (Stellaris for example) and I'm in the billions.

An utter monster.

And in Captain Blood, back in 1988, you could at will use your spaceship weapons to destroy inhabited planets in a Death Star Way. I kind of liked the sound effect. I probably slaughtered billions. Populous was a great contender as well.

 

[Oofta]

Sometimes I want a complex game with meaningful choices. Sometimes I just want to kick ass and chew bubblegum. Except I don't ever chew bubblegum.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I find peoples attachment to killing goblins or orcs by the score for no reason somewhat weird, not from any great love of goblins or concern for sentient creatures, but for the insistence that it must always forever be goblins, orc and kobolds. After a couple decades at this, seems like you’d be bored of them and their rather well understood habits and be very accepting of their surrender and integration into the general populace, ready to move on to new, heretofore undiscovered, cave and dungeon dwellers.

The poor xvart. All of his little friends get killed… but do the adventurers bother with him… no!

If you prick the xvart, does he not bleed?

If you kill the xvart, does he not give you XP?

Stop the senseless xvart discrimination. They are just as worthy of senseless killing as any goblinoid or orc.

 

[Cadence]

Does it change anything if they're fairies now instead of humanoids?

(If demons and angels are outsiders, are fairies insiders? Or would that be elementals? )

 

[Scribe]

Does it change anything if they're fairies now instead of humanoids?

(If demons and angels are outsiders, are fairies insiders? Or would that be elementals? )

Nope.