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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wyrmshadows" data-source="post: 4456304" data-attributes="member: 56166">Its not only a question of racial mixing, its a whole dynamic of believabilityI don't want to DM or play in a setting that is basically a fantasy version of the Star Trek Federation. Dull as dirt IMO. I do not like "shiny happy campaigns" where the only people who have societies with... Unequal distribution of wealthsexismracismxenophobiaclassismilliteracyignoranceie. believable social issues. ...are the "bad" societies.  Cosmopolitan regions should exist, but these are the exception to the rule. If all peoples are blended and everyone gets along, then no matter where you go you are essentially in the same place. Unless you are in an evil society there is absolutely no believable human drama in settings like this. Personally I loathe racism, classism and sexism in real life, but when I read a good book I expect people to behave believably and I expect the same thing from well-made role playing settings. Using's D&D's traditional simplistic balck and white moral barometer, I don't know of one real-world society that would be good aligned. The best of them would be lawful-neutral and many, perhaps most of the greatest cultures in history would have been lawful evil. Rome, Persia, Egypt, Babylon, The European Holy Roman Empire, etc. all of these societies had such egregious social, military, legal, etc. practices that they would be evil by any traditional D&D standard. Give me believable over sterilized any day. Believable is dramatic, sterile is boring. Watch the HBO series Rome and tell me how dull it would have been if they sanitized it. It would be ruined.  Wyrmshadows</blockquote>

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