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Flying Toaster reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with
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Blue Rose is fascinating because it's like people don't understand the setup value of having a relatively utopian state surrounded by... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Like.
Two points worth considering with societies like this, whether fictional or real: 1) Re: the bolded bit, how much of that is due to the...
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Flying Toaster reacted to M.L. Martin's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Like.
Same age, similar length of time thinking about it, and I haven't nailed down the ultimate source either. D&D has just enough influence...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Like.
I think that's a very interesting question because the sheer common-ness of the concept does suggest a common ultimate source, but I'm...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Like.
I think the problem here is that the bolded bit is hard to support, and it's extremely easy to argue that in practice this is purely...
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Flying Toaster reacted to M.L. Martin's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Like.
The closest I think we ever get are in two sources. First is the explanation of the Law of Gilean in Dragonlance Adventures; while I...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Bohandas's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Like.
"What makes a man turn neutral. Is it lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?" -Zapp Branigan
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Flying Toaster reacted to Bohandas's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Like.
Has anyone posted this yet:
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Flying Toaster reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Like.
Depending on the source, though, that's either for essentially "Lawful" reasons in that he was getting above his station and challenging...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Artamo's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Like.
Another idea: how much of Greyhawk neutrality was merely an explanation for players doing murderhobo-y stuff in Gygax’s dungeons? “Oh...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Whizbang Dustyboots's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Like.
Tough to respond to this within board rules, but some of Gygax's views about good and evil definitely have antecedents.
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Flying Toaster reacted to Artamo's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Like.
I think the problem with Greyhawk’s view on it is that it substitutes good and evil with a fantasy equivalent of military and political...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Like.
For reference here is the 1e PH and DMG descriptions of True Neutral True Neutral: The “true” neutral looks upon all other alignments...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Like.
In the 2e City of Greyhawk boxed set it gets kind of close to a TN for Mordenkainen and the Circle of Eight with a pragmatic reason of...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Marc17's post in the thread D&D General "True Neutral": Bunk or Hogwash with Like.
I could certainly give you examples of "too much good", but they'd be my interpretations. However, it has been proposed that Forgotten...