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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6630456" data-attributes="member: 92511">Thanks. Gets me by. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Well, evil elves exist as the Drow of AD&D. So they have plenty of magic of their own make and they're basically unknown to the surface world. Evil dwarves...are a little different...I mean, I have never used Duergar, but I don't dismiss the possibility of their existence, either. Derro are my go to "evil dwarf guys in the subterranean underworld."...and they're more about enslaving and stealing than making their own magic stuff. Evil halflings, now that's just silly. hahahaha.Evil humans exist as the remnants of the great empire of the previous age (the Selurians) solely on two islands away from the mainland. They are known for having magic and knowledge (and debauched wickedness) now lost to the current continent/nations (infested with breeds of "lesser men" all, their former subjects and slaves, as far as the Selurians are concerned). So magic items produced by them would be possible and, likely, powerful...probably based in advanced alchemy and enslavement of (and/or bargains with) magical creatures. Some of the most powerful existing magic items known in the world are things created, if not by the Selurians, then in reaction to them/their attempted [and largely successful] conquests.Or did you mean, like groups/settlements of surface elves/dwarves/humans and halflings that are just "bad guys", supplying evil races with magic stuff for their own reasons? Mmm, no. Not really. There are evil human kingdoms and such, of course. But not really, like, specifically outfitting orcs or ogres with magic items. Not a bad idea/premise for a plot arc though.OR did you mean the possibility of groups of evil individuals from the "goodly races"? Sure, those exist. EDIT to add: the likelihood of evil individuals among a large settlement of humans or halflings is probably roughly about equal...probably more common among humans by a few percentiles. Dwarves, as a defaulted Lawful Good race/society, significantly more rare. And evil-aligned elf individual would be...nearly unheard of among surface high elves. A lone dark elf from the underworld come to the surface to wreak havoc and evil is more likely...and that's nearly unheard of. None of these, obviously, would ever be permitted anywhere near a playable character sheet. But, sure, they can be said to exist in the world/have the potential of being encountered.</blockquote>

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