Weiley31
Legend
Elven Propaganda.I think that if they address the Unhuman Wars, it won't be so black and white. The Orcs/Scro/Goblins won't be solely the "bad guys", and the Elven Imperial Navy (aka Astral Elves) won't be the "good guys".
Elven Propaganda.I think that if they address the Unhuman Wars, it won't be so black and white. The Orcs/Scro/Goblins won't be solely the "bad guys", and the Elven Imperial Navy (aka Astral Elves) won't be the "good guys".
I don't think there's really a better/worse there.I just thought it was interesting he was willing with name illithid and beholders but not noegi has "100% bad guys." I wonder what's worse, from the perspective of someone who cares about such things: a race of evil slavers the PCs have to fight, or a single non-evil member of a race of slavers the PCs have to deal with?
This article from Polygon talks about giving warnings to your players about clowns and spiders. In addition, Polygon asked Crawford if the Neogi were getting to get any "massaging" to tone down their evilness. The answer was... interesting. Crawford did not respond specifically regarding neogi
, but did say illithids and beholders would remain evil, but some races would get the "I, Borg" treatment -- explicitly calling out Vampirates. Given that slavery has been a bit of a hot button, I will be curious to see where WotC lands of the space spider-eel slave traders.
The original was already like that - it was very strongly implied that the elves weren't the good guys in that fight. (Which isn't entirely the same as saying the orcs & goblins weren't bad guys...)I think that if they address the Unhuman Wars, it won't be so black and white. The Orcs/Scro/Goblins won't be solely the "bad guys", and the Elven Imperial Navy (aka Astral Elves) won't be the "good guys".
I was never into Spelljammer, so I am kind of excited to explore it with this set. That said, I really like my squid headed mind raping brain eaters to be capital-E Evil.I'm actually a little disappointed at the answer re:Illithids. One of the more interesting aspects of the original Spelljammer was the ambiguity surrounding that race - it wasn't quite as obvious as before that they were monolithically evil. They're very much the Vorlons of the setting.
A lot of the monstrous compendium entries support this view.The original was already like that - it was very strongly implied that the elves weren't the good guys in that fight. (Which isn't entirely the same as saying the orcs & goblins weren't bad guys...)
While I am generally pro "unambiguous evil races" I think "Planejammer" might be one place where it makes a lot of sense to push nuance and different factions.A lot of the monstrous compendium entries support this view.