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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8372889" data-attributes="member: 7635">No, evil is a synonym for evil. As in "this culture engages or condones one or more things that most people consider abhorrent. What people here apparently no longer accept is that a large group of people would engage in such actions willingly, which to me flies in the face of plenty of historical evidence. How many people accepted Nazism even if they weren't part of the party? How many joined the KKK or picnicked to watch lynchings? How many today defend police brutality? How many have joined cults and allowed the abuse done by thier leader? To go to the example you picked out: the demon worshipping theocratic culture is bad because THEY WORSHIP DEMONS. This isn't modern Church of Satan which is a pisstake at other religions, they are active in serving the literal embodiment of evil and spreading misery and destruction. Is that not evil, or are we back to "demons aren't evil either" territory?The point of fantasy is explore things that couldn't happen. Maybe a culture in reality can't be made of a majority of demon worshipping slavers, but reality doesn't allow a dragon to fly and breathe fire either. And as a game, a certain level of abstraction is needed keep the hundreds of sentient beings separate. I don't like the fact you can't have a Mordor, a Thay, a Galactic Empire, a Menzoberranzan or other "this is a bad place" locations. I guess the villagers of Barovia are going to start Occupy Castle Ravenloft soon.I was willing to accept the "not all drow are evil" , but I'm not accepting the "actually, very few drow are evil" either. At that point, dump the drow entirely and just allow black/grey/purple as a standard elf skin color choice and be done with it.</blockquote>

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