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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 5128124" data-attributes="member: 4720">True.&nbsp; Hobgoblins, though, like the one they killed, are the &quot;Jackbooted army of death&quot; type.There's rules support for Elf-goblin enmity, and the Oots world is nothing if not a product of D&amp;D rules.See &quot;product of the D&amp;D rules&quot; above.&nbsp; The characters are (largely) aware of the rules governing their world.&nbsp; When that is used for comedy, everyone chuckles appropriately.&nbsp; When it is used to cause an NPC to behave in a rules-appropriate not-nice way, it's a problem?&nbsp; Xykon and even Belkar can be cartoon EVIL and that's hysterical, but an NPC is day-to-day-surviving little-e evil and that's evidence of some terrible moral failing on the part of.... who?&nbsp; The author?&nbsp; I'm not even sure at whom we're supposed to be mad.Random elf #327 made a pragmatic wartime decision in the field to minimize risk.&nbsp; It was accompanied by black humor from onlookers.&nbsp; Heck, that's a more realistic vision of actual war than we get in most media, and it's in a stick-figure comic.&nbsp; Is that the problem?&nbsp; Cognitive dissonance?Um.... historically, as in up-until-WWI, that was pretty much par for the course IRL.&nbsp; Hell, it's still standard procedure in more than half the world right now.&nbsp; And we don't live in a world governed by rules that dictate who is good and who is evil.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost, post: 5128124, member: 4720"] True. Hobgoblins, though, like the one they killed, are the "Jackbooted army of death" type. There's rules support for Elf-goblin enmity, and the Oots world is nothing if not a product of D&D rules. See "product of the D&D rules" above. The characters are (largely) aware of the rules governing their world. When that is used for comedy, everyone chuckles appropriately. When it is used to cause an NPC to behave in a rules-appropriate not-nice way, it's a problem? Xykon and even Belkar can be cartoon EVIL and that's hysterical, but an NPC is day-to-day-surviving little-e evil and that's evidence of some terrible moral failing on the part of.... who? The author? I'm not even sure at whom we're supposed to be mad. Random elf #327 made a pragmatic wartime decision in the field to minimize risk. It was accompanied by black humor from onlookers. Heck, that's a more realistic vision of actual war than we get in most media, and it's in a stick-figure comic. Is that the problem? Cognitive dissonance? Um.... historically, as in up-until-WWI, that was pretty much par for the course IRL. Hell, it's still standard procedure in more than half the world [I]right now[/I]. And we don't live in a world governed by rules that dictate who is good and who is evil. [/QUOTE]

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