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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 9742422" data-attributes="member: 891">A lot of serial killers probably have better motivations...D&D PCs very often kill people to get paid or to steal the stuff of the people they kill. Trying to get a group of players in a fantasy RPG to do something just because it's the right thing to do, and to the minimize loss of life because that's also the right thing to do is often near impossible.Some games like Pathfinder even penalize you for trying to fight non-lethally.At least serial killers come up with excuses. The TV ones and the real ones are not the same here... but both share that trait. Their excuses are nonsense. But in their minds we're the Orcs and Goblins so of course we'd think that.Coming from having spent the first 20 years in this hobby running and playing Super Hero games, my trips into games like D&D have always been a bit of a shock as I've not "normalized" the idea that my PC should be killing the enemy. We didn't even do that when I played Cyberpunk games.But that's a whole other side topic from this one.</blockquote>