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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 9392298" data-attributes="member: 467">When I say "banal evil" I just mean the same kind of evil humanity has had to contend with for all of our history: slavery and racism, of course, but also destructive greed and non-consensual prostitution, organized crime and official corruption. Those things usually exist in the world, but I don't dwell on them or they serve as an in-road to more operatic evil. For example, if raiders are taking slaves and the PCs go to stop them, the trail never just ends with slavers: the victims are to be turned into monsters under the control of some would be demon lord, or whatever.I am ambivalent about including stuff like brothels or dog fighting or abused labor or other "minor evils." They can be background flavor, I guess, but if they get more than a passing mention when I am trying to paint a picture of how nasty the big vile city is it would be a surprise to even me. Unless I just finished a Black Company book or something and am in the mood to get vile. that happens sometimes.Even with all that, though, I do not want to wallow in it and I absolutely do not want to run a game where the PCs are part of the problem. "Evil" campaigns are of no interest to me, nor are criminal ones. I would probably nope out of a Game of Thrones feeling campaign pretty quickly.</blockquote>