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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spell" data-source="post: 2503739" data-attributes="member: 19718">that is very true. as a matter of fact, to some extent, D&D has a wider gray scale palette for monsters. orcs might be riding the village because they are evil, or maybe because some horrible monster pushed them out of their caves and now they are starving... i have played many D&D campaigns where the players had to make some tough moral call.in warhammer, there is not such need. orcs, goblins, dragons, beasts of chaos... they are all evil, and they all want to kill everybody for gore's sake.on the other hand, would you say that the average peasant is good? what about the politicians down the city? the wizard in the lonely tower?throughout the warhammer matherial it is pointed very clear that everybody is plotting, and a secret agenda going on, is probably telling you lie after lie to make you do what he wants, is exploiting you and the world all around in a way or another.sure, there is place for white hearted heroes... but those are the exception, not the norm.in a way, the fact that the monsters are perceived to be sinkholes of evil is also a by-product of such widespread grittiness: if my brother is ready to backstab me for a plate of soup, then those horrible monstrosities must be really really sick!!!that is true, too. but i feel that the PCs do those things despite themselves and the world around them... as if put in the right circumstances, they had no way out to save their skin but doing those big things...</blockquote>

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