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<blockquote data-quote="Mistah J" data-source="post: 3453507" data-attributes="member: 29527"><p>Yoink!</p><p></p><p>That is awesome. Would you be so kind as to enlighten me on how you pulled this off? My players are about to enter a Cerebrotic Marrow (Dragon #330) and will be meeting a "guide" of sorts. I would love to do what you did to help give the proper feel of the place.</p><p></p><p>As for the OP - I too believe the Far Realms are not inherently evil (as the lower planes are). Rather, the things that are <em>out there</em> are so incompatible with <em>in here</em> that mixing them creates dangerous results. I think the evil comes from the misunderstanding that those who interact with it experience (either accidental or intentional).</p><p></p><p>As an example I can offer up my current adventure: The villains are a trio of Mind Flayers who wish to open up a Far Realm portal and retrieve their master; an Elder Brain who attempted its own portal to gain power and got pulled through and stuck there. To do so, they enlisted the aid of a university professor to help find the McGuffins required. The professor is glad to help because he believes that the current state of the world - in which strength and physical ability is generally superior to mental intelligence - is backwards and unfair. He'd rather see world of "brain over brawn" and he thinks that the opening a portal to the Far Realm can "fix" things.</p><p></p><p>In that given situation, there is plenty of Evil. The Elder Brain is evil, it wanted to increase its power so it could dominate and control more. The Mind Flayers are evil because they agree and want to help. The professor is evil too, he is misguided and more than a little crazy for sure, but wanting to upset the natural balance of things in the hopes of eliminating those "less intelligent" and ending up in charge certainly wins him a black hat.</p><p></p><p>But the Far Realm itself? Not evil. Heck, It, and anything native to it, probably doesn't even notice.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, just a thought (and a plug for my campaign.. how did that happen?)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mistah J, post: 3453507, member: 29527"] Yoink! That is awesome. Would you be so kind as to enlighten me on how you pulled this off? My players are about to enter a Cerebrotic Marrow (Dragon #330) and will be meeting a "guide" of sorts. I would love to do what you did to help give the proper feel of the place. As for the OP - I too believe the Far Realms are not inherently evil (as the lower planes are). Rather, the things that are [i]out there[/i] are so incompatible with [i]in here[/i] that mixing them creates dangerous results. I think the evil comes from the misunderstanding that those who interact with it experience (either accidental or intentional). As an example I can offer up my current adventure: The villains are a trio of Mind Flayers who wish to open up a Far Realm portal and retrieve their master; an Elder Brain who attempted its own portal to gain power and got pulled through and stuck there. To do so, they enlisted the aid of a university professor to help find the McGuffins required. The professor is glad to help because he believes that the current state of the world - in which strength and physical ability is generally superior to mental intelligence - is backwards and unfair. He'd rather see world of "brain over brawn" and he thinks that the opening a portal to the Far Realm can "fix" things. In that given situation, there is plenty of Evil. The Elder Brain is evil, it wanted to increase its power so it could dominate and control more. The Mind Flayers are evil because they agree and want to help. The professor is evil too, he is misguided and more than a little crazy for sure, but wanting to upset the natural balance of things in the hopes of eliminating those "less intelligent" and ending up in charge certainly wins him a black hat. But the Far Realm itself? Not evil. Heck, It, and anything native to it, probably doesn't even notice. Anyway, just a thought (and a plug for my campaign.. how did that happen?) [/QUOTE]
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