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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 3331626" data-attributes="member: 22424">IMC, no. Pretty much everyone has a choice. Only the undead and outsiders have 'fixed' alignments by their very nature, and even there there's some wiggle room. (A Demon can cease to be CE, IMC, but then it is no longer a Demon and is instead something else.)Many of the humanoid races have strong tendencies towards Evil, but usually these are cultural pressures. Orcs tend towards Evil because their weak intelligence leads to them being driven out of the more desirable terrains by the better equipped and organised races. Hobgoblins tend towards Evil because their birth rate is very high and they lack skill at farming, which necessitates near-constant raiding just to feed their tribes. Trolls tend towards Evil because of near-constant and ravenous hunger. Chromatic Dragons tend towards Evil largely out of greed and/or pride, while Kobolds do because they revere and serve those same dragons.And so on.In each case, there's a reason why the race tends towards Evil, but in each case it is ultimately a matter of choice. A troll could choose the path of Good... but it would find it extremely diffiuclt to walk. Easier just to be Evil, and so the vast majority are.It's also worth noting that just because there's a reason why a given creature is Evil does not make it non-Evil, nor does it mean it should not be opposed, and exterminated if necessary. It just means that, sometimes, other methods might be more productive (eg Hobgoblins can be induced to work as mercenaries and gladiators, thus removing them as a threat without need for constant war).All IMC, of course.</blockquote>

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