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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 4035259" data-attributes="member: 28553">Honestly, that sounds boring to me.  When I run or play D&D, I want action and complicated problems.  When I just want action, I play video games.Why should any kind of creature be pure anything?  Ambiguity and depth are fun.I ran a game a while ago where some cannibalistic humanoids (basically, humans reduced to a predatory, animalistic state) were living in a graveyard, eating corpses and attacking live humans from time to time.  Of course, the party felt totally cool about killing them all, as they were obviously dangerous and didn't seem particularly sapient.After the fight, the party noticed that one of the fallen creatures was visibly pregnant.  The party Cleric made sure to skewer that one through the belly, just to be certain.  I think that was the coolest moment of the night because it totally fit the character and established him as the hardcore pragmatic bastard of the group, and meanwhile the rest of the party was a little freaked out by it . . . especially when they later discovered the fetus was entirely human.That was a fun twist to throw at them, and it started sort of a running joke (supported, through sheer coincidence, by later events) that the Cleric was always just raring to go kill some babies.</blockquote>