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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5234851" data-attributes="member: 19675">Post 1Ed, you have a growing tide of &quot;monsters&quot; as heroes...or at least as PCs.As that happened, the black &amp; white of D&amp;D gained shades of grey...at least at the game rule level.Now, at the campaign level, it may be true that all orcs are bad, all drow are bad, all minotaurs are bad, etc., but its no longer a universal assumption.In pre-2Ed D&amp;D, you're absolutely right.&nbsp; However, from 2Ed on, not only did we have evil humans and humanoids show up (just as they always had) but non-evil &quot;monsters&quot; start showing up with increasing regularity.&nbsp; You can even find things like hobgoblin traders pop up in the texts of adventures...at least in the big, cosmopolitan cities.&nbsp; But for extraplanar beings like demons or elementals, alignments for races are a generalization, not an absolute.(Emphasis mine.)I agree- &quot;assassin&quot; is just a job description, and may be held by any kind of person- someone of any &quot;alignment&quot;- given the proper motivation.That we can find examples of non-Evil assassins is what is so disappointing about the PrCl: it assumes that ONLY Evil types would gain that kind of skill at killing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5234851, member: 19675"] Post 1Ed, you have a growing tide of "monsters" as heroes...or at least as PCs. As that happened, the black & white of D&D gained shades of grey...at least at the game rule level. Now, at the [I]campaign[/I] level, it may be true that all orcs are bad, all drow are bad, all minotaurs are bad, etc., but its no longer a universal assumption. In pre-2Ed D&D, you're absolutely right. However, from 2Ed on, not only did we have evil humans and humanoids show up (just as they always had) but non-evil "monsters" start showing up with increasing regularity. You can even find things like hobgoblin traders pop up in the texts of adventures...at least in the big, cosmopolitan cities. But for extraplanar beings like demons or elementals, alignments for races are a generalization, not an absolute. (Emphasis mine.) I agree- "assassin" is just a job description, and may be held by any kind of person- someone of any "alignment"- given the proper motivation. That we can find examples of non-Evil assassins is what is so disappointing about the PrCl: it assumes that ONLY Evil types would gain that kind of skill at killing. [/QUOTE]

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