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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1252052" data-attributes="member: 812">You know, I was thinking about this issue on my way home from work today, and I thought that as DMs, our homebrews probably say a fair amount about our worldviews. What we think of people.You might think that I have a bleak view of humanity -- that I think everyone's a paranoid freak. But I don't.I just think, "What would a world be like where paranoid freaks could really go to town?" Or, to address Speaker's point, "What would a world be like where the paranoid freaks aren't actually the bad guys? What if the paranoid freaks are RIGHT?"All of the bad guys in Barsoom honestly and truly believe they're out saving the world. And they're willing to pay whatever price it takes, including stomping half the world into rubble, if it will destroy the bad guys. The bad guys, of course, being the OTHER bad guys. Not them. They're the GOOD GUYS.It puts the party into all sorts of horrible quandaries. "Well, if we destroy the Demon Goddess, who's going to kill the Spider Sorcerer? After we've put down the Slave Queen, how do we stop Bloodlord Dark from taking over the world?"Heh.I think the answer is that however you want to run your campaign you can come up with a pretty plausible justification for it. It's good to put your head up every now and then and hear about what other people are doing, but there is no right answer to this debate. Just more or less interesting options.</blockquote>

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