Recent content by overgeeked

I think that's tied up on old notions of honor. It's honorable to stand and fight. It's not honorable to poison someone. So good people will kill you on the field of battle with a weapon, give you a sporting chance and all that, while evil people will simply poison you.

If only...

Sounds fantastic.

If we could not lump anyone who likes old-school Dark Sun into the same category as dogwhistling racists that would be great.

I'm sure that means something to someone, but it's not me.

Those are all examples from games I've played in or run. I'm usually the odd man out asking if we can find a better way to deal with things while the rest of the group delights in slaughter. That's been consistent across over 40+ years of play.

The trouble is the “Bad Guys” always just happen to be whoever gets in the PCs’ way. The term murderhobo exists for a reason. Prisoners never seem to survive. Shops and businesses get robbed or burned down. People are tortured for information. Entire sentient species are labeled evil so they...

I started reading Triplanetary, the first Lensman book, by E. E. “Doc” Smith. Almost immediately stopped and read the wiki only to discover the first two books by internal chronology are prequels. Grabbed Galactic Patrol, the third book by internal chronology but the first actually written. And...

Depends on which violation you think is worse. At a guess quite a few people would rather die than have their mind invaded and taken over. But that assumes murder is okay. Which it clearly isn’t.

Causing harm is evil. Preventing harm, i.e. self defense, is good. Causing harm to prevent harm is somehow good? That’s confusing. Unless we’re measuring harm and comparing them. Say a broken arm vs a death. Breaking an arm to prevent death is clearly a worthwhile trade. But an arm has still...

You seem to have misunderstood me. The Jedi mind trick is 100% obviously mind control. Lying and deception are 100% obviously not mind control. They are categorically different things. It's not good because you're removing someone's free will. Regardless of why, that's evil. It's the...

Just heard this one and have to steal it. What's it called when one banana eats another banana?

Yep. There's a pretty easy tell. How would you react if this were used against you or someone you love? Most of the excuses and moralizing and equivocations suddenly disappear when it's phrased like that. The acceptable circumstances of its use suddenly dwindle to extremely rare exceptions...

Yeah. "Always" was an overstatement. As a kid I loved toys, legos, action figures, and all that.