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Fanatics & Zealots: How to Use Extremism in Antagonists and Villains in Your Campaigns (+)
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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8541218" data-attributes="member: 7023887"><p>(Edited out the rest of the post because there was simply too much to respond to, but this is the crux of your criticism.)</p><p></p><p>If you go back and reread the OP, you'll see that I very specifically focus on how to use Extremism in ways that allow for a DM to create Antagonists and Villains in their story/campaign. Additionally, I went out of my way to avoid examples from the real world, just to keep the divisiveness and controversy around the topic down. I am aware that not all extremism in the real world is as extreme as the examples and characters listed in the OP, and I'm aware that there are very different flavors of extremism that I did not cover. I didn't cover them because the post was already over 5,000 words, had taken me several days to write and revise, and the topic of the post was about creating conflict in a story/campaign based off of different types of extremism that can be placed in the narrative. </p><p></p><p>Going over the top was kind of the point. It's <em>extremism</em>. It's meant to be, you know, <em>extreme</em>. Not all types from fiction or the real world are as extreme as the examples listed, but the examples listed serve a purpose in the tools provided, and there are examples from the real world as extreme as the ones listed. </p><p></p><p>And for the fact that a lot of the Giant nation wasn't true political extremism is a valid criticism, but I was more trying to lean into the fact that the Giant nation's whole hierarchal structure is an extreme pseudo-feudalistic empire that was created around one extreme basis.</p><p></p><p>And please keep in mind that this is a (+) thread. I'm open to criticism, but would prefer if it was more constructive and listed other examples that you feel would better fit the labels in the OP.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8541218, member: 7023887"] (Edited out the rest of the post because there was simply too much to respond to, but this is the crux of your criticism.) If you go back and reread the OP, you'll see that I very specifically focus on how to use Extremism in ways that allow for a DM to create Antagonists and Villains in their story/campaign. Additionally, I went out of my way to avoid examples from the real world, just to keep the divisiveness and controversy around the topic down. I am aware that not all extremism in the real world is as extreme as the examples and characters listed in the OP, and I'm aware that there are very different flavors of extremism that I did not cover. I didn't cover them because the post was already over 5,000 words, had taken me several days to write and revise, and the topic of the post was about creating conflict in a story/campaign based off of different types of extremism that can be placed in the narrative. Going over the top was kind of the point. It's [I]extremism[/I]. It's meant to be, you know, [I]extreme[/I]. Not all types from fiction or the real world are as extreme as the examples listed, but the examples listed serve a purpose in the tools provided, and there are examples from the real world as extreme as the ones listed. And for the fact that a lot of the Giant nation wasn't true political extremism is a valid criticism, but I was more trying to lean into the fact that the Giant nation's whole hierarchal structure is an extreme pseudo-feudalistic empire that was created around one extreme basis. And please keep in mind that this is a (+) thread. I'm open to criticism, but would prefer if it was more constructive and listed other examples that you feel would better fit the labels in the OP. [/QUOTE]
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