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Rechan, my guess is that you try to create or play in world that is dynamic like real life. In the real world, motives can be assigned to any culture and questioned by another. Evil is GENERALLY a objective term applied only to the truly evil like demons from the Abyss. Would this be a correct...

To keep it easy for me to understand at 11:30pm EST on a Friday, Orcs and their allies are EVIL. In our games there is no question, they want to kill us. Just because there was a Drizzit, we do not assume Drow may be non-hostile. One Orc or one Drow that doesn't want to kill us is the exception...

Yes they are. It is convenient because none of the players I have played with want to waste time dealing with the nature of EVIL in their GAME. Philosophical discussions get in the way of XP and GP ;)

Rechan, I don't want to fill my response with your post so I will answer like so. Orcs in my world are EVIL. There is no psychological or philosophical discussion. DMs that put those kinds of questions in a GAME belong in theology and philosophical classes at a local college not running a GAME...

Directly answering your edit: If the DM is using the orcs as a culture analogous to one we would find in real life, yes, there may be an issue. Tolkien smartly did not allow anyone to question where the orcs stood. They were EVIL. If the DM wants to blur the line with respects to cultures and...

You make an interesting point on nature v. nurture, although I question any psychology derived from playing RPGs. Seriously, if people are using RPGs to help them figure out their thoughts on the nature of EVIL, we are :):):):)ed! RPGS have true or Cosmically evil for a reason. RPGs by their...

I consider it a challenge to participate in a thread like this and not get banned. To the point, I cannot fathom how any person could consider a small group of orcs driving flaming wagons filled with pitch and tar into villages not evil. In stories and real life, it really is about us v. them...

Here is the disconnect with old- v. new-school games and play styles. The original games do not seem to have been built for specific styles like modern games have. You can play any style with the older games. It is just a question of how many house rules your DM/or you wish to use. Everyone here...

XP for you, for coming here and expressing your side. I apologize for my hasty comment, although I did intend for it to be taken in a more hypothetical manner. Intentional or not, the side we originally got made you out to be "not a very flexible member of the D&D community ;)" [insert rigid...

DD1 seems to be missing the map for the mage tower. (If you give stats for the mages, you need to give maps too ;))

The page at http://www.enworld.org says: ! You must spread some Experience Points around before giving it to thedungeondelver again.

Cable TV & Internet: $100 Video Games: $50 Used Books: $20 DVDs: $20 Alcohol: :cool: Sitting around with your buddies telling stories about the one that got away: Priceless Edit: No more spending $20/month on D&D products: Priceless

No they don't. These are not the WOTC boards.

I wonder how different 3.5e high-level play would have been different if WOTC devoted as much to it by making a character/monster generator? I also wonder how the traffic is over at WOTC since they started charging for DDI? The numbers at Alexa are always interesting.

In a previous campaign that I DMed we had the following characters: Porthos: Human Cavalier Jan Brady: 1/2-orc Barbarian Paris Noir: Human Rogue Mika: Elf Ranger Zath Russ: Halfling Bard Drahcir: Human Cleric Mal of Mahr: Human Wizard Kull: Human Barbarian (Part time Player) Epira of...

I always vote for beer :p

A short time after PH2 comes out might be a good time. We might be able to see if more options in the game bring more people in.

Where the hell has your tongue been?!? :eek: :p :uhoh:

Or that creative DM can go write a book. I started writing as a hobby for this exact reason. Forcing players to jump through hoops at my own whim was ultimately unrewarding and made my players resentful the more I tried to dictate the game style. Once I matured and realized that D&D goes both...

AOS, that guy sounds like a dick. Sorry Morrus' G'Ma. I'm too much of a boor to dance around my opinon. If I were in your position AOS, I would say the same to his face and actively recruit the rest of the players away from such a self-righteous obnoxious tard. D&D above all else is game...