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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 446595" data-attributes="member: 2020">Dwarves value the individual.  They cherish the individual.  However, dwarves appreciate that society is the protector of the individual, his right to life, happiness, and fulfillment.  Dwarves cherish both their society and each other, they respect the laws and customs, and they are horrified when one of their own turns on them.  Dwarves, are just a kindly, friendly people, when those dwarves are lawful good.  I cannot imagine a paladin, or any other lawful good character, having a good time on the world of Gor.  I can only imagine that a lawful good character would be utterly miserable in that place, repulsed and horrified by the customs, appalled by the system and it's thinking.  A lawful good character would quickly realize only two things were possible:  either quietly accept the grim reality, or go to war against that reality somehow.  And ANY war, no matter how justified or necessary, is going to involve pain, misery, bloodshed, and horror ... things that will bring further grief to the highly principalled and life-cherishing lawful good character.  Perhaps the lawful good character will try to integrate, become powerful within that society, then change it from within.  Another kind of struggle, and involving sacrifice of the character's time and life in the process - but to lawful good characters, such sacrifices are often worth all their time.  A lawful good female character would be, to be blunt, as out of place on Gor as little green men from Mars would be on Earth, with about the same disastrous results.  Conflict would be almost inevitable.  (Now, of course, if said lawful good female was a wizard, and she started throwing Domination or Polymorph Other spells, the tables would be turned on these violent people.)  Kender are going to be painful for lawful good characters to deal with.  However, one will not see lawful good characters killing or permanently imprisoning kender.  Lawful good characters just aren't that kind of people, that they would inflict that kind of pain on such innocent beings.  A lawful good leader whose country is suddenly overrun with kender is going to have a king-sized headache to fit his crown.  Where to find tylenol?  Don't ask me ... I know Dragonlance well enough to know there is no good answer to kender.  As the Hylar dwarves say, Kender Happen.</blockquote>

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