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<blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9533946" data-attributes="member: 42856"><p>But then, what is the difference with a regular world, where it is not uncommon to have adventurer tasked to deal with necromancer building armies of undead because they are starting to unleash them to do harm, or there are good kingdoms at war with evil kingdoms (equivalent to Good intervening post-hoc)? I could say that your depiction of the triumph of Good is the starting point of many campaign worlds. The mostly Good kingdoms fight the Zhents agents but don't brainwash people into not joining the Zhents, and they are at war with Thay because Thay is oppressive and wishing to kill basically everyone else. How is it not the state of "triumph of Good" you're describing? I am not trying to criticize the premise, just to understand them.</p><p></p><p>Yet, in this state of thing (Faerun-like), the MN could still morally oppose the Good kingdom and prevent them from wiping Thay and Menzoberranzan, because they consider that the next step after conquest by the forces of Good would be asking the question "how can we prevent those kingdom to ever happen again, threatening the peace? A question to which they think there is only bad answers. Much like they oppose the Evil kingdoms when they are on the winning side, because they estimate they could determine that killing all Good people is a very valid way of preventing them for reigniting the war later, which is also against the worldview of a liberty-loving MN.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jfdlsjfd, post: 9533946, member: 42856"] But then, what is the difference with a regular world, where it is not uncommon to have adventurer tasked to deal with necromancer building armies of undead because they are starting to unleash them to do harm, or there are good kingdoms at war with evil kingdoms (equivalent to Good intervening post-hoc)? I could say that your depiction of the triumph of Good is the starting point of many campaign worlds. The mostly Good kingdoms fight the Zhents agents but don't brainwash people into not joining the Zhents, and they are at war with Thay because Thay is oppressive and wishing to kill basically everyone else. How is it not the state of "triumph of Good" you're describing? I am not trying to criticize the premise, just to understand them. Yet, in this state of thing (Faerun-like), the MN could still morally oppose the Good kingdom and prevent them from wiping Thay and Menzoberranzan, because they consider that the next step after conquest by the forces of Good would be asking the question "how can we prevent those kingdom to ever happen again, threatening the peace? A question to which they think there is only bad answers. Much like they oppose the Evil kingdoms when they are on the winning side, because they estimate they could determine that killing all Good people is a very valid way of preventing them for reigniting the war later, which is also against the worldview of a liberty-loving MN. [/QUOTE]
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