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<blockquote data-quote="Spell" data-source="post: 2505750" data-attributes="member: 19718"><p>you may very well be right on this... i never used dragons in my campaigns (D&D or whatever), so i might have skipped their description altogether. <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 :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>my point, thought, is that monsters are considered evil, not because they are inherently so, but just because my perception of the warhammer world is that humans and... ehm... demihuman races tend to think that if something is menacing their communities, then it's evil, and has no other purpose than creating them problems.</p><p>of course that might not be written in the rules... but after some time, talking about the flavour of a campaign world, i tend to forget what's on the book and what has been just in my campaign, especially if it was from day one! <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 :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>on the evilness of chaos: i tend to ignore what real purpose gods have, and concentrate on the repercussion they have in the campaign world.</p><p>let's take an example out of real world. sex is natural and is necessary for the well being of the human race, BUT for centuries (and, in some circles, even now) it has been related with filthiness, amorality, and so on. sex made for reproduction was tolerated because it was necessary. everything that was not aimed at reproduction was seen as evil and corrupt, because of the moral teaching of the church.</p><p></p><p>now, the gods of chaos might not be evil per se, but that is the way they are perceived by most bystanders in the old world. again, maybe it's something that i enforced on my campaign and it is not really explicit in the books... but it does make sense, if you consider that warhammer should be a fantasy paralled of our world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spell, post: 2505750, member: 19718"] you may very well be right on this... i never used dragons in my campaigns (D&D or whatever), so i might have skipped their description altogether. :) my point, thought, is that monsters are considered evil, not because they are inherently so, but just because my perception of the warhammer world is that humans and... ehm... demihuman races tend to think that if something is menacing their communities, then it's evil, and has no other purpose than creating them problems. of course that might not be written in the rules... but after some time, talking about the flavour of a campaign world, i tend to forget what's on the book and what has been just in my campaign, especially if it was from day one! :) on the evilness of chaos: i tend to ignore what real purpose gods have, and concentrate on the repercussion they have in the campaign world. let's take an example out of real world. sex is natural and is necessary for the well being of the human race, BUT for centuries (and, in some circles, even now) it has been related with filthiness, amorality, and so on. sex made for reproduction was tolerated because it was necessary. everything that was not aimed at reproduction was seen as evil and corrupt, because of the moral teaching of the church. now, the gods of chaos might not be evil per se, but that is the way they are perceived by most bystanders in the old world. again, maybe it's something that i enforced on my campaign and it is not really explicit in the books... but it does make sense, if you consider that warhammer should be a fantasy paralled of our world. [/QUOTE]
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