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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 6172983" data-attributes="member: 463">That's a good question - IME most S&amp;S fiction has a pretty modernist-nihilist take on things, and part of that is the protagonist's lack of connection with other characters except possibly a 'buddy' (Fafhrd/Mouser, Raven/Spellbinder, Elric/Moonglum). But I'm wondering if I could run a game in an S&amp;S type milieu while still using NPCs who are basically attractive/good from the POV of 21st century moral values, the way I do in my Forgotten Realms game or (sort-of) in my 17th/18th-century-styled Yggsburgh game.Can S&amp;S work with conventional, Christian-influenced Western morality? Where it's not ok to split some guy's skull just because you want his stuff? I suspect that a broad-based S&amp;S world like the Wilderlands might well be useable that way, but it would feel a bit odd doing that in eg Conan's Hyborea unless both the PCs and all the NPCs were part of the same close-knit ethny, eg the same Cimmerian clan. It could easily come across like a Disneyfied version of Conan.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 6172983, member: 463"] That's a good question - IME most S&S fiction has a pretty modernist-nihilist take on things, and part of that is the protagonist's lack of connection with other characters except possibly a 'buddy' (Fafhrd/Mouser, Raven/Spellbinder, Elric/Moonglum). But I'm wondering if I could run a game in an S&S type milieu while still using NPCs who are basically attractive/good from the POV of 21st century moral values, the way I do in my Forgotten Realms game or (sort-of) in my 17th/18th-century-styled Yggsburgh game. Can S&S work with conventional, Christian-influenced Western morality? Where it's not ok to split some guy's skull just because you want his stuff? I suspect that a broad-based S&S world like the Wilderlands might well be useable that way, but it would feel a bit odd doing that in eg Conan's Hyborea unless both the PCs and all the NPCs were part of the same close-knit ethny, eg the same Cimmerian clan. It could easily come across like a Disneyfied version of Conan. [/QUOTE]

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