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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9744025" data-attributes="member: 18">Small e or big E evil though?Judge Dredd is absolutely small-e evil in most presentations of him, but he's usually contrasted against even worse people, people who range from the merely very dangerously stupid or greedy to extreme big-E evil, like Judge Death ("All crime isss committed by the living" is pretty much as far Lawful Evil as you can get lol). The primary concern of Judges is enforcing the law. The law in Mega-City One isn't fair, isn't just, isn't democratic, isn't really honest, and is probably small-e evil in most senses, but it's the law, and most Judges aren't out there looking to do harm (especially not Dredd in most presentations of him), they just want to enforce it.Templars though are serving extreme big-E evil. That's the problem. You're like Judge Dredd if he worked not for the Judge System/Mega-City One, but specifically for say, Sauron or Thulsa Doom or similar. They're not just enforcing unfair or undemocratic laws, they're doing the tasks and jobs of a truly evil overlord. They're more akin to the Gestapo or Brown Shirts. They don't have to necessarily follow or enforce the law, they just have to do what their boss tells them to. Which is often going to be, I would suggest, a lot more "evil-oriented" than "law-oriented". At the lowest levels probably most Templars would be following rules and guidelines and laws, but their boss can override that at any time in a way that might have Judge Dredd kicking down doors in the Judge's building to try and arrest his boss.I'm not saying they shouldn't be playable or w/e, but that's a very big difference between being Nazgul Jr. and Judge Dredd I'd suggest, and most Templars are closer to the former imo. Nazgul Jr. might still rebel or realize his boss sucks, of course.The sad thing is Warlocks could really easily have been given a "no Patron" magic-hacker option (it is indeed kind of hinted at in the text), which maybe had less raw power than the Patrons, but a bit more flexibility, but both 2014 and 2024 missed that opportunity.</blockquote>

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