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Message: <blockquote data-quote="davidschwartznz" data-source="post: 2722919" data-attributes="member: 7287">Let me start by saying that I liked the movie Team America: World Police, but I don't agree with the moral, at least as far as real world politics go. However, it seem to me to fit perfectly into the moralities of most fantasy worlds.Now the moral was summed up by a three word sentence, not one of which is Eric's Grandma friendly. Let's just say, people are divided into three categories: yin, yang, and evil.Yang is the, er, mascualine aspect of good. The active aspect. Yang is alright with killing evil creatures, because, well, their evil.Yin is described as, shall we say, feminine. This is the passive aspect of good. Most people prefer peace to war, but some problems can't be solved by peaceful means (monsters, for example), so this creates a tension in the forces of good between the potentially ineffectual yin and the potentially overzealous yang.Because, you see, evil exists in both the male and female aspects (if you know what I'm saying), and it's only the play between yin and yang that keep either from going evil. And by evil, I mean the kind of evil that can only be solved through non-peaceful means.Thus, to paraphrase the movie: Only Yang can fight Evil, but sometimes Yang goes to far and hurts Yin. Thus Yins means of opposing evil is to make sure Yang is pointing in the right direction (I feel so dirty), but Yin can't stifle Yang too much, or it leaves itself defenseless from Evil.So in summation: Adventurers are Yang, NPCs are Yin, Bad Guys are Evil.The problem with Paladins is no one can agree on whether they are Yin or Yang. And If I didn't have to be Grandma friendly, I so would have titled this thread: "Paladins: [yangs] or [yins]?"</blockquote>

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