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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6388165" data-attributes="member: 2011">It's not a matter of that concept being in the rules. It's in individual campaigns.I'm totally ok with my heroic PC killing Orcs, just because they are evil Orcs. I'm totally ok with a campaign world where all Orcs are evil, just because they are. Like Tokien. In LotR and the Hobbit, the PC races can be any alignment, but the NPC races tended to be one alignment. The vast majority of the PC protagonists tended to be good, even Boromir.There appears to be a political correctness groundswell in the gaming community that if DMs and players do not play in certain ways (i.e. individual monsters can be any alignment, monster babies should not exist in the game, good Drow like Dritz are perfectly acceptable, etc.), that it is bad/wrong fun. Gruumsh breathes life into Orcs and because of that, there are no good Orcs. Green dragons are evil. Period. And playing in a campaign where that is the case is fine. Playing in a campaign where that is not the case is also fine, but saying that one way is acceptable and the other is not, is not very tolerant.The game designers have to create a game for all tables. One where baby aliens are just plain evil little monsters, and ones where baby aliens are usually evil little monsters, but sometimes good and sometimes neutral.Nothing stops a DM from using the little firesnakes as evil and PC targets in one campaign, and another DM with the &quot;baby monsters should not exist&quot; POV not using them at all.I don't really understand humanizing fictional baby monsters at all, but you evidently empathize with that POV. But, people who have your POV should not be intolerant and try to stop the designers from creating such monsters. You should just not use them in your game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 6388165, member: 2011"] It's not a matter of that concept being in the rules. It's in individual campaigns. I'm totally ok with my heroic PC killing Orcs, just because they are evil Orcs. I'm totally ok with a campaign world where all Orcs are evil, just because they are. Like Tokien. In LotR and the Hobbit, the PC races can be any alignment, but the NPC races tended to be one alignment. The vast majority of the PC protagonists tended to be good, even Boromir. There appears to be a political correctness groundswell in the gaming community that if DMs and players do not play in certain ways (i.e. individual monsters can be any alignment, monster babies should not exist in the game, good Drow like Dritz are perfectly acceptable, etc.), that it is bad/wrong fun. Gruumsh breathes life into Orcs and because of that, there are no good Orcs. Green dragons are evil. Period. And playing in a campaign where that is the case is fine. Playing in a campaign where that is not the case is also fine, but saying that one way is acceptable and the other is not, is not very tolerant. The game designers have to create a game for all tables. One where baby aliens are just plain evil little monsters, and ones where baby aliens are usually evil little monsters, but sometimes good and sometimes neutral. Nothing stops a DM from using the little firesnakes as evil and PC targets in one campaign, and another DM with the "baby monsters should not exist" POV not using them at all. I don't really understand humanizing fictional baby monsters at all, but you evidently empathize with that POV. But, people who have your POV should not be intolerant and try to stop the designers from creating such monsters. You should just not use them in your game. [/QUOTE]

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