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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Twig" data-source="post: 9754658" data-attributes="member: 31754">Ah, yes. Maybe you missed the part where I said those &quot;funny looking people&quot; were murdering people and eating them. The characters were not &quot;murder hobos&quot;. They were heroes protecting people from violent aliens that want to kill all of the humans, elves, dwarves, halflings and other friendly aliens. They are not just killing them because the &quot;look different than us.&quot;The criticism wasn't that the characters couldn't murder everything. It was that the foes that are presented aren't really foes at all. Even the ones with an Evil alignment don't actually act very evil.When I was a kid, I wanted to fight bad guys and save the day. Not murder innocent people. And I didn't want to go explore a cave and find out that instead of bad guys it was a birthday party.If you went to an action movie and the heroes tracked down the villains, only to find out it was a misunderstanding and everyone went home, that wouldn't be much of a movie. So why is it okay in D&amp;D? Why is it bad to want actual bad guys to fight?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Twig, post: 9754658, member: 31754"] Ah, yes. Maybe you missed the part where I said those "funny looking people" were murdering people and eating them. The characters were not "murder hobos". They were heroes protecting people from violent aliens that want to kill all of the humans, elves, dwarves, halflings and other friendly aliens. They are not just killing them because the "look different than us." The criticism wasn't that the characters couldn't murder everything. It was that the foes that are presented aren't really foes at all. Even the ones with an Evil alignment don't actually act very evil. When I was a kid, I wanted to fight bad guys and save the day. Not murder innocent people. And I didn't want to go explore a cave and find out that instead of bad guys it was a birthday party. If you went to an action movie and the heroes tracked down the villains, only to find out it was a misunderstanding and everyone went home, that wouldn't be much of a movie. So why is it okay in D&D? Why is it bad to want actual bad guys to fight? [/QUOTE]

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