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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 25677" data-attributes="member: 812">Me, too! My PCs recently had a sit-down with nasty old Madame Yuek and in getting tidbits of information about assorted bad guys they asked, "What do these guys want?" Yuek's answer: "They want to save the world. We all want to save the world. From each other."My thinking is that when you perceive a threat, and you want to counter it, you need to increase your own power to the point where you can face that threat. And of course, in doing so, you become perceived as a threat by others. So many of my "bad guys" became bad in order to defeat something terrible -- and in the process became terrible themselves. So now there's a variety of individuals who are near demi-gods in power, all of whom consider (and rightly, it seems) each other to be terrible threats to the world. So now they're all jockeying for position, trying to eliminate each other.They don't see themselves as bad guys -- they think they're saving the world. Which they are, because unless these other nasties are stopped, things are going to be very uncomfortable. The problem is that they're just as nasty as the others. The PCs, obviously, are those who have to try and stop all of them -- but what will they become in the process?I can't say I agree with all of (or even many of) her statements, but I think a lot after reading her, which is worth a great deal. Not many writers do that to me.</blockquote>