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Do your Political Views shape how your villains and heroes act?
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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7511224" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>An Imp with delusions of grandeur, perhaps?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I’d argue that the complete and exact opposite is true. The first is genuinely interesting, because you have a Good character who is unambiguously the villain, but also has perhaps very similar goals as the PCs and their allies, and who believes with a Paladin’s faith that what they are Right. It’s both more interesting and more terrifying than the alternative. </p><p></p><p>OTOH, you’ve got the second option, which I find completely boring on nearly every level. The only thing that salvaged such characters is charisma. Thanos and Emperor Palpatine and Vader are satisfying villains in spite of fitting in category 2, IMO, not because of it. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That’s...pretty much objectively false, though. It doesn’t hold up to its own qualifications. By this measure, literally nothing is political unless there are large numbers of people in agreement about it, or the specific people talking about or doing it are public figures. Suddenly a casual discussion with friends about economic policy and the ethics thereof can’t be political, which is obviously absurd. </p><p></p><p>More importantly, a person’s political leanings are created by their moral, ethical, social, beliefs, biases, and priorities. Does anyone really believe that it is possible to completely remove those from how they think?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 7511224, member: 6704184"] An Imp with delusions of grandeur, perhaps? I’d argue that the complete and exact opposite is true. The first is genuinely interesting, because you have a Good character who is unambiguously the villain, but also has perhaps very similar goals as the PCs and their allies, and who believes with a Paladin’s faith that what they are Right. It’s both more interesting and more terrifying than the alternative. OTOH, you’ve got the second option, which I find completely boring on nearly every level. The only thing that salvaged such characters is charisma. Thanos and Emperor Palpatine and Vader are satisfying villains in spite of fitting in category 2, IMO, not because of it. That’s...pretty much objectively false, though. It doesn’t hold up to its own qualifications. By this measure, literally nothing is political unless there are large numbers of people in agreement about it, or the specific people talking about or doing it are public figures. Suddenly a casual discussion with friends about economic policy and the ethics thereof can’t be political, which is obviously absurd. More importantly, a person’s political leanings are created by their moral, ethical, social, beliefs, biases, and priorities. Does anyone really believe that it is possible to completely remove those from how they think? [/QUOTE]
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