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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8261404" data-attributes="member: 6796468">My husband ran a horrorish game where my character was a monster-hunter and inquisitive who was part of an order of people studying and investigating magical and monstrous events to try and find out what was really happening and put a stop to it.One of the cases to which I was assigned was a village where three children had gone missing, as well as an adventurer who had taken it upon himself to try and find out what happened. The village was quiet, insular, reticent to tell me what had happened... but speaking to one of the residents who had "Taken Ill" I slowly learned a lot more.The village was being tormented by two separate entities. One intentionally, the other unintentionally. The girl who had "Taken Ill" was dead. Her corpse possessed by a demonic spirit who took over the body the -instant- it was vacated to escape from a greater evil. This demonling was a clue to a larger plot involving a terrible darkness that was coming, one that frightened even the monstrous.The children had been going missing because of... a Troll. But not your standard D&D troll, no. A cross between the 3e style of troll and the folklore horror function of them: Child-Eaters who could compress their bodies to hide in small spaces and the like, as well as impersonate the voices of his victims.That stuff got CREEPY with a quickness.The troll wasn't "Evil because Evil" he was evil because his diet and hunting style made him wicked and cruel. Meanwhile the Demon was "Evil because Evil" but was more than willing to help out if it meant she would be kept safe from the horror that was coming. Oh, she was still mean and cruel, and lashed out at others because the only life she had known was an eternity of torment by those of greater power than her own... But mostly that manifested in a desire to inflict petty harms on others. Scaring them, threatening them, scratching people who got too close and generally being an ill-tempered cuss.And that's how we added a full on Demon to our adventuring party without a big moral conflict about murder and the like. 'Cause while the Troll was evil by action, she was evil by personality, and both were to varying degrees.The last part of which is, by far, the most important part. Just because someone is CE doesn't mean their evil nature is "Burning down Orphanages". Sometimes it just means being incredibly rude and spiteful, or emotionally harmful.... D&D really needs, like, a Magnitude Scale for their alignment.Evil 1 would be "Absolute Jerk"Evil 5 would be "Murders for Fun"</blockquote>

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