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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riley37" data-source="post: 6593991" data-attributes="member: 6786839">True. Which is why the first word of my previous response was "True". I accept your moral assessment. I am aware of other horrible things, and as MechaPilot points out, if you just describe the outlines, then I am likely to fill in the gaps even more effectively than you could, or rather, in a more personalized-for-effectiveness way. I think rape is *particularly prevalent* in American society, which is by no means the same thing as *uniquely bad*... and you could argue that certain other evils are equally prevalent or more prevalent, and you might be right, but by that point we've gone far afield from the question of how a DM responds to the player of a chaotic neutral rogue with that particular Bond.I have an agenda about compassion for those who have been affected, or harmed directly, by rape. That agenda was relevant to the OP. I think that agenda can co-exist with your larger, broader points about depiction of evil and horror in TRPGs, and the methods which a DM can use to create a compelling story for the players.I like MechaPilot's idea of the PCs coming across records from long, long ago, such as a journal. Here's a variation: a song of praise, written by some fan of the vamp, long ago. Cognitive dissonance ensues, between how the author of the song presents the vamp's deeds as praiseworthy and awesome, and how the PCs, who judge those deeds by a different set of values, are perhaps awed but not at all in a good way. The song's composer might be someone who was an enemy of the vamp, and then got... converted... and that shift of perspective might be described in the song.See also, the difficulty Churchill experienced, when it was necessary to either ally with Stalin or risk conquest by Hitler; and Churchill's attempts to end that alliance as expediently as possible, in the endgame of the war.See also, Xander in the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" episode featuring Dracula.</blockquote>

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