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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8349013" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Chaotic Evil describes the entire person. It's like in The Sims, where if you took the Evil trait, you made Evil dinners and took Evil showers. Lazy, sadistic, or bad-tempered describes one aspect of the individual. And here's where you (or rather WotC) would think about why those creatures are described that way.Why are bugbears lazy? Are they just slothful, or is it because they actually have to sleep for long periods of time, like cats? You can call a cat lazy if you like, but they have a biological need to sleep for 16+ hours each day.Why is drow culture sadistic? What if it wasn't sadistic? What if it were just a small part of drow culture--say the priesthood or the nobility--that were sadistic (due to Lolth worship) and who (thanks to Lolth's blessings) had the rest of the culture under their thumb so they can't rebel and remove those evil influences? I personally prefer the idea of a corrupt, tyrannical leadership giving the entire people a bad name to the idea of every black-skinned elf being super-evil. And the only changes you'd have to make to the drow is to remember that Average Joe drow isn't going to have a ton of non-innate magic (as that's controlled by the priests and nobles).Why do gnolls have short, vicious tempers? Well, in this case, it's because they're basically demons-infused predatory animals but they got the wrong creature type. And since demons are literally concentrated evil and molded into physical form and who lack true free will, that's OK.</blockquote>

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