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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6585188">Dragons, even young ones, are intelligent creatures.&nbsp; They can usually speak common and almost assuredly speak draconic, which makes for a very important difference between it and a cougar.&nbsp; Preemptively killing anything because they are &quot;typically evil&quot; especially when they are intelligent creatures is also evil, from the dragon's perspective their attacks against humans might be justified on exactly the same grounds.&nbsp; It's a very, literally dangerous associative fallacy and on top of that, it is basically racism or specisism.&nbsp; Though it might not always be the case in the gameworld at hand, it is worth considering: are &quot;evil&quot; sentient creatures evil because they have experienced nothing but endless waves of adventurers attempting to kill them?&nbsp; Imagine all the dragons who came before that little dragon in the picture.&nbsp; How many adventurers tried to kill them?&nbsp; Of those, how many only did so in response to the dragon perpetrating an evil act?&nbsp; How many did so because they wanted a new set of dragoncale armor or because they needed a dragon-eye for a casting reagent, or because they wanted fame and glory?The &quot;impartial DM&quot; is a fantasy.&nbsp; You want an impartial DM?&nbsp; Go play an MMO.&nbsp; You want an interesting game where your moral compass may get questioned?&nbsp; Sit down at a table and play face-to-face with real people.&nbsp; Then see how long your 'murderhoboing' lasts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 6585188"] Dragons, even young ones, are intelligent creatures. They can usually speak common and almost assuredly speak draconic, which makes for a very important difference between it and a cougar. Preemptively killing [I]anything[/I] because they are "typically evil" especially when they are intelligent creatures is [I]also[/I] evil, from the dragon's perspective their attacks against humans might be justified on [I]exactly[/I] the same grounds. It's a very, literally dangerous associative fallacy and on top of that, it is basically racism or specisism. Though it might not always be the case in the gameworld at hand, it is worth considering: are "evil" sentient creatures evil because they have experienced nothing but endless waves of adventurers attempting to kill them? Imagine all the dragons who came before that little dragon in the picture. How many adventurers tried to kill them? Of those, how many only did so in response to the dragon perpetrating an evil act? How many did so because they wanted a new set of dragoncale armor or because they needed a dragon-eye for a casting reagent, or because they wanted fame and glory? The "impartial DM" is a fantasy. You want an impartial DM? Go play an MMO. You want an interesting game where your moral compass may get questioned? Sit down at a table and play face-to-face with real people. Then see how long your 'murderhoboing' lasts. [/QUOTE]

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