NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8445392" data-attributes="member: 42856">Another thing a fantasy race could do to qualify as "inherently evil" would be to behave like cuckoos. They are unable to raise their own youngs, because they just drop their young in the litter of another sentient species, known to raise children and provide them food. The innate ability for their young to reflexively cast illusion spells (or mind control spell, when hungry) is helping them, so the parents don't see that their baby was eaten and replaced by the competing young from another species. And when the young is mature enough, he eats the rest of the litter and run away to his original culture. This species has no way of feeding their own young, it was dropped somewhere on the evolutionary path (and they knowingly used extensive magical engineering to have dragonborn able to lactate despite them not being mammal only to have a larger pool of prospective parents).I can't really find a consensus in the thread but I guess it would be close to inherently evil, except for those who prefer to define it as unaligned, since they have no mean of "not doing that" and keep surviving as a species.On the other hand, I wouldn't advise using this idea in game, because it would spur moral discussions that one might want to avoid at the table (do we inform the Smith that young Tommy is actually a 7 feet high troll and they should really stop breastfeeding him? Do we kill the little troll despite him being an infant by his species standard? How will the village react since they are heavily enthralled by illusion spells to see the troll as young Tommy?)</blockquote>

Verification