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<blockquote data-quote="Ace" data-source="post: 8444834" data-attributes="member: 944">As annoying as it is, you need a good grasp of metaphysics and religious teaching in your game before doing this, since you have to define&nbsp;&nbsp; evil in your campaign first.&nbsp; After that you can develop&nbsp; a&nbsp; rationale for why this species behaves in that fashion .To note also ,&nbsp;&nbsp; both creators of D&amp;D&nbsp; Gygax and Arneson were devout Christians and that was the default world view&nbsp; view&nbsp; of almost everyone in the US at the time so&nbsp; when the when the nine alignment axis&nbsp; originally developed (as vs law, chaos neutrality) for D&amp;D it&nbsp; likely used a somewhat Christian world view to represent good and evil.You world&nbsp; may not and non Abrahamic cultures especially those with no connection to the West may have very different world views. Make sure everyone is on the same page if you try say reconstructed Mesoamercan or Yanamoma or something. Settings like Empire of the Petal Throne are great but they can be very hard to play for many players and note everyone , actually very few people have much buy in to a setting that is described as Mesoamerica/Islamic with pulp aliens</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ace, post: 8444834, member: 944"] As annoying as it is, you need a good grasp of metaphysics and religious teaching in your game before doing this, since you have to define evil in your campaign first. After that you can develop a rationale for why this species behaves in that fashion . To note also , both creators of D&D Gygax and Arneson were devout Christians and that was the default world view view of almost everyone in the US at the time so when the when the nine alignment axis originally developed (as vs law, chaos neutrality) for D&D it likely used a somewhat Christian world view to represent good and evil. You world may not and non Abrahamic cultures especially those with no connection to the West may have very different world views. Make sure everyone is on the same page if you try say reconstructed Mesoamercan or Yanamoma or something. Settings like Empire of the Petal Throne are great but they can be very hard to play for many players and note everyone , actually very few people have much buy in to a setting that is described as Mesoamerica/Islamic with pulp aliens [/QUOTE]

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