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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6501084" data-attributes="member: 2067">Hahaha, thanks! The most compelling examples of slaadi behavior I've seen in D&D stuff have this tension between glee and destruction that I thought was always interesting. Mostly because it's not about delight in the others' suffering, it's just an amoral lack of concern for others. It's not the death that make slaadi happy, it's the change of state (from "person" to "pinkish pulp"), about the dynamic event itself ("constant dodging, constant  change!"), about their own independence ("I do this because I WANT TO"). Slaadi easily are bored and amoral and alien, but they aren't cruel. Compare to the demon who wanders through that same portal. That demon destroys the buildlings, sure, but before it does, it walks in there, grabs the mother and the father, pulls them outside, and then locks their children in, and hisses with pleasure as they cry for their burning children. The demon sees a market as a place full of *victims* -- leap into the middle and watch them scurry over each other, crushing each other in a race to escape them. And of course both of these are different from, say, the CN bard who visits town, or the CE rogue. Slaadi and demons are alien -- from another reality. They drive to more extreme examples of these alignments than most mortals express. Part of the thing you're dealing with when you deal with anything extraplanar is that they are not overly concerned with mortal problems. Perhaps the celestials take mortal concerns into account and try to do little damage, but even an angel is a dangerous creature whose logic is foreign to the concerns of an LG person just trying to live their life.</blockquote>

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