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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 8069727" data-attributes="member: 32740">Not really.&nbsp; Yes, adventures did say, treat females as lesser monster X and young as lesser monster Y.&nbsp; But that was done because they WERE NOT HELPLESS INNOCENTS.&nbsp; They were evil, murdering MONSTERS, to the core, from birth, and that was why they had evil alignments.&nbsp; And it wasn't a matter of PC's hacking apart defenseless and weak fuzzy-wuzzys - it was a matter of PC's needing to defend themselves AGAINST those vile critters seeking their PC blood by using rocks and pointy sticks if that's all they had.Later, other game authors and DM's inserted into D&amp;D the idea that no monster is ever inflexibly evil and that you couldn't just gank even the worst monsters because eventually one of them was going to turn out to be LG and then it would be the players who were guilty of murder for A) not conducting detailed psychological analysis on every individual to determine their personal philosophy and beliefs instead of making blanket racist assumptions, and B) not arresting them instead and taking them back to the nearest town for trial by jury for their illegal deeds, and possibly C) turning themselves into authorities for acting like judge, jury and executioner without having been duly elected as law enforcement officials.&nbsp; But that's not how it was EVER intended at the outset and the females and young were not placed into adventures as morality traps for the PC's to rush headlong into because they wanted to hear the screams of dying innocents.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 8069727, member: 32740"] Not really. Yes, adventures did say, treat females as lesser monster X and young as lesser monster Y. But that was done because they WERE NOT HELPLESS INNOCENTS. They were evil, murdering MONSTERS, to the core, from birth, and that was why they had evil alignments. And it wasn't a matter of PC's hacking apart defenseless and weak fuzzy-wuzzys - it was a matter of PC's needing to defend themselves AGAINST those vile critters seeking their PC blood by using rocks and pointy sticks if that's all they had. Later, other game authors and DM's inserted into D&D the idea that no monster is ever inflexibly evil and that you couldn't just gank even the worst monsters because eventually one of them was going to turn out to be LG and then it would be the players who were guilty of murder for A) not conducting detailed psychological analysis on every individual to determine their personal philosophy and beliefs instead of making blanket racist assumptions, and B) not arresting them instead and taking them back to the nearest town for trial by jury for their illegal deeds, and possibly C) turning themselves into authorities for acting like judge, jury and executioner without having been duly elected as law enforcement officials. But that's not how it was EVER intended at the outset and the females and young were not placed into adventures as morality traps for the PC's to rush headlong into because they wanted to hear the screams of dying innocents. :) [/QUOTE]

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