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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8582119" data-attributes="member: 6877472">D&D does have it's own strange morality.  From the very early days, it wasn't about personal morals as much as adherence to cosmic forces.  If you were Lawful, you were a "good guy", not because of your morals, but because you fought against Chaos, which is trying to tear down everything.You could kill goblins without mercy because they were all servants of Chaos, and thus, your mortal enemies.  There were no debates about whether mistreating orc babies made you "evil".  They were the spawn of Chaos, and stopping them meant, ultimately, saving the universe as you knew it.Adding Good and Evil made the game more nuanced, but it led to moral debates that the game has NEVER SUPPORTED.  You can easily fall down a rabbit hole of Goblins being victims of society or circumstance, and that their actions, meant to survive in a harsh world, are understandable, and the actions of "heroes" who break into their homes, slaughter them, and take their stuff, is the act of sociopaths.The stuff of high fantasy, it is not.  Did the Heroes of the Lance ever pause to think about whether or not it was the Draconian's fault for being what they were?  They were made from the stolen eggs of good dragons, and forced into service to Takhisis!  Yeah no, we don't have time for that, just remember what happens when they die, and quickly move your sword so it doesn't get trapped in a stone statue.Now we are in a different age, where society is saying "hey, we can be better people".  And that's great!  But D&D doesn't exist in our world.  It really can't!  There has to be "ultimate, unredeemable evils" or the whole swords & sorcery dungeon crawl falls apart.And I'm not saying we can't have a game that takes enlightened attitudes into account (I have to get that out there, lol).  I'm just saying that Dungeons & Dragons can't be that game.You can slap D&D on the title of that game, but it would be VERY different.</blockquote>

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