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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Qwillion" data-source="post: 3139835" data-attributes="member: 14641">Morally Challenging MonstersI have come to the opinion that monsters with the greatest “traction” creat an emotional response in players, in D&D that is often nostalgia and the reactions of other players to the mosnter, but in literature and classical mythology monsters challenge our systems of morality and our concept of humanity.  As Joseph Campbell put it “By monster I mean some horrendous presence or apparition that explodes all of your standards for harmony, order, and ethical conduct."  You often see these monsters as personifications of a broken taboo, representing repressed fears contorted and projected externally.  Manifestations of a unsettling side of our culture.  -What does our modern culture label as "monstrous" and why? -What makes a successful monster in our current jaded culture and is that likely to change in the future? -What exactly have certain authors and filmmakers of modern fiction captured (or unleashed)? -Do we still cling to the seemingly universal terror of the anomalous, the uncategorizable?-What moral challenges can be transformed into monsters.-What is still taboo in modern north America?</blockquote>