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<blockquote data-quote="Savage Wombat" data-source="post: 6387757" data-attributes="member: 1932">There are those who consider D&amp;D's use of the &quot;evil from birth&quot; trope as a cheap cop-out, to avoid considering the ramifications of the player's desire to just kill some monsters.&nbsp; I admit to leaning to that desire myself, but I've thought about it.&nbsp; Is the fact that something is evil by nature enough justification to kill it?&nbsp; The salamanders in this example aren't actively preying upon humans for food or brood-stuff, they're just&nbsp; - I don't know, it's not in the description - greedy and cruel?&nbsp; (My first instinct to reference real-world persona hereby quashed.)I've seen debates in game fora wherein people declare their intent to never buy a game based on one monster they considered controversial.&nbsp; I would think that making a change that leads to controversy for no particular reason is not the best business decision.&nbsp; It's not like deciding &quot;should we include stats for baby dragons as we have in previous editions&quot; - it's &quot;hey, should we make this monster the baby form of that monster, so that they're connected?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Savage Wombat, post: 6387757, member: 1932"] There are those who consider D&D's use of the "evil from birth" trope as a cheap cop-out, to avoid considering the ramifications of the player's desire to just kill some monsters. I admit to leaning to that desire myself, but I've thought about it. Is the fact that something is evil by nature enough justification to kill it? The salamanders in this example aren't actively preying upon humans for food or brood-stuff, they're just - I don't know, it's not in the description - greedy and cruel? (My first instinct to reference real-world persona hereby quashed.) I've seen debates in game fora wherein people declare their intent to never buy a game based on one monster they considered controversial. I would think that making a change that leads to controversy for no particular reason is not the best business decision. It's not like deciding "should we include stats for baby dragons as we have in previous editions" - it's "hey, should we make this monster the baby form of that monster, so that they're connected?" [/QUOTE]

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