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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8310851" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Nietzsche is woefully misunderstood primarily because his sister ignored his wishes and rewrote his philosophy to cater to Nazism.Nietzsche's -actual- work does say that all men are sheep. That we walk around our dull lives going with the crowd, conforming to the ideas placed before us, with little conscious interest in the creation or morality of those ideas we conform to. The societal structures we pen ourselves into without question or consideration.Nietzsche's "Ubermensch" is a person who actively questions the structures placed around them, makes their own decisions on that framework, and either adheres to or discards that framework based on their own moral and rational judgement. It is wrong to kill? One must ask why, examine the truth, and come to their own conclusion rather than simply accepting it to be self-evident because others have told you that it is wrong to kill.Nietzsche still expects you, in this example, to come to the same conclusion that killing is, in fact, morally wrong. But to gain insight and understanding in the world around you, into the structures that you exist in, through that philosophical question. Challenge the world, and accept it as correct when it is so, or incorrect when it is so.It's meant to be empowering and self-affirming to examine the circumstances of your existence and decide for yourself what they -should- be, and then seek to make that a reality. Instead what is ultimately a lot of "Big n' Manly" descriptions of Navel Gazing got turned into Propaganda.Which is where the "Wolves" part comes in. Hey, there's absolutely nothing wrong with a hack n' slash game! And Swords and Sorcery makes for an easy background for it, for sure.And it's... a thing... that your group wouldn't have any problem with that. There are a lot of groups out there that wouldn't. But I'd really prefer this thread not turn into a debate on sexism/racism in gaming and media when it's meant to be about using the existential crisis as a DM's tool at a table to help reinforce the classic swords and sorcery pulp fiction feel.</blockquote>

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