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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8817890" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Sigh.D&D uses alignments. Back when Dragonlance was first published, in 1e, alignment was pretty important. A paladin could fall if he spent too much time hanging around the thief. Changing alignment was a bad thing that docked XP.If the gods of Dragonlance claim to be Good (upper-case Good) but perform Evil acts (upper-case Evil), such as genocide, then either the setting has a screwed-up morality or the writers are trying to claim that genocide is a good act. If they were actually Good, and had performed such an Evil act--and yes, even if every single person who was killed was clamoring for blood, genocide is still an evil act--then those Good gods (and Neutral gods) should have had their alignments changed.If the writers had instead said that the Good gods were not, in fact, Good, and they performed an act of Evil but tried to convinced everyone that it was actually Good instead, or that the Good deities had performed an act of great evil, had turned Evil as a result, and now must try to redeem themselves so they can retake their place as the Gods of Good again, those would be a basis of a potentially very interesting setting.Kick Ass is an action movie. While I have not seen that particular movie, I have seen enough action films and TV shows to know that they rarely try to pretend that the violence perpetuated in them is an act of Good. At most, it's a evil act (lower-case evil) performed by people who are trying to do good (lower-case good) but for whatever reason, do so through violent means. Probably more often, it's people of dubious morality performing acts of violence against other people of dubious morality for the entertainment of the viewers, with no actual attempt to to claim anyone is of any sort of morality.Understand now?</blockquote>

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