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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8461410" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Agreed. The redundancy is likely intentional, to disparage.IMNSHO, too many DMs are hypersensitive to anything remotely non-traditional and cry &quot;special snowflake!&quot; far too readily.Fair. I haven't seen it myself. Perhaps the cumulative effect of the Abhorsen books, the Diablo games, and the trend toward more &quot;light-grey-and-dark-grey&quot; morality (as opposed to either black-and-white or proper grey-and-grey) has given people the notion. In a different setting, I might permit it, but we'd have to lay down some ground rules so it doesn't fall afoul of the &quot;no evil PCs&quot; thing. Because that one I'm not budging on, and it really means what it says, not &quot;you can play an evil&nbsp; PC as long as you pass it off as Chaotic Neutral or Lawful Stupid,&quot; not &quot;I do enough good things to balance out the murder and assault!&quot;, not &quot;well I only do things the universe labels as 'evil,' I'm not ACTUALLY Evil-evil!&quot;So if a player could sell me on a genuinely not-evil (doesn't have to be good, but can't be evil) necromancer, I'd let them play it. But they'd have to sell me on it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8461410, member: 6790260"] Agreed. The redundancy is likely intentional, to disparage. IMNSHO, too many DMs are hypersensitive to anything remotely non-traditional and cry "special snowflake!" far too readily. Fair. I haven't seen it myself. Perhaps the cumulative effect of the Abhorsen books, the [I]Diablo[/I] games, and the trend toward more "light-grey-and-dark-grey" morality (as opposed to either black-and-white or proper grey-and-grey) has given people the notion. In a different setting, I might permit it, but we'd have to lay down some ground rules so it doesn't fall afoul of the "no evil PCs" thing. Because [I]that[/I] one I'm not budging on, and it really means what it says, not "you can play an evil PC as long as you pass it off as Chaotic Neutral or Lawful Stupid," not "I do enough good things to balance out the murder and assault!", not "well I only do things the [I]universe[/I] labels as 'evil,' I'm not ACTUALLY Evil-evil!" So if a player could sell me on a genuinely not-evil (doesn't have to be [I]good[/I], but can't be evil) necromancer, I'd let them play it. But they'd have to sell me on it. [/QUOTE]

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