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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 5475375" data-attributes="member: 71571">Fair enough, but it's no different than earth mythologies.  Pantheons have historically been of the 'jealous' and 'flawed' types.  It's generally only monotheistic cultures that have gods embody perfection and omniscience. Lions and tigers have to eat.  To eat, they must kill.  Is it vile?  Yes.  But then again, since when was the Forgotten Realms a NICE place?  The entire thing is a crapsack world, with everything falling apart... and then the gods go and screw stuff up just to make things worse!If you're lucky, you live in a nice city, where the worst problems are corruption, graft, murder, and a mad wizard who lives in miles of catacombs beneath your city who will do as he pleases randomly. Given that as noted above, the Realms is not a nice place, has some very nasty things in it.  That whole 'points of light' thing.If you're in a world where everything is filled with ancient horrors waiting to kill you if you take the wrong step, do you turn your back on the cities that exist strictly for the purpose of ensuring that the world is NOT consumed by everything dark and horrid?The bad stuff is necessary, but the good stuff is too.  That's just how the realms work.  It's not a matter to be morally judged; a morally just campaign setting would have nothing but perfect fields of happy farmers who never worry about villainous kobolds because no one made them.  No goblins made, and that five tentacled beast that destroyed your home town?  Never happened because there's no far realm of things that should not be.  That would also be boring.</blockquote>

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