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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 487372" data-attributes="member: 1210">A couple of years ago I helped a kid I was tutoring work on a paper about cannibalism.  It was very interesting.Most societies that practiced cannibalism were either endocannibals or exocannibals (? the terminology may be wrong, but the idea's right here).  An endocannibalistic society practices cannibalism within its own culture; for example, they might eat their dead to symbolically keep them alive, honoring powerful warriors, to take on the qualities of their great leaders, etc.  An exocannibalistic society only practices cannibalism on members of other cultures- eating the bodies of powerful enemies to gain their strength, to defile them for the afterlife, etc.  Very few cannibalistic cultures practiced both endo- and exocannibalism.Now, if you want to justify a good-aligned cannibal, odds are he's an endocannibal, honoring his own by eating their hearts, brains, or whatever body part has mythic significance.  In my campaign I actually have a base class (the cannabix) that eats hearts to gain more stat increases than other classes.  A cannabix is sort of like a chaos druid who's afraid of nature's wrath rather than a worshipper of nature.  She eats hearts as sacrifices so that the powers of the sea, sky and land won't destroy her and her people.  Cannabix gain a stat increase at level 2 and every four levels thereafter as a class ability, in addition to the every four levels all characters gain them at.  They also cast spells a lot like a druid, though with some differences in their list.  Not all cannabix are evil; however, due to the culture that spawned them, they are all chaotic.I don't think cannibalism is innately evil; eating someone to honor them, or because it's the cultural norm, is fine in my book.  Prolly not for me personally, but I've never tried it.</blockquote>

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