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<blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 4664556" data-attributes="member: 25619">That's fine.&nbsp; It's a CHOICE many GM's have made -- to run a beer and pretzels game that doesn't care much about the nature of its world, or to run a black and white game where there's no shades of grey.Recognize, though, that at least in 3e, by saying all orcs are evil, you are making a house rule, not following the RAW.Different people approach D&amp;D in different ways, and many D&amp;D players, being on nerds and therefore usually blessed with high IQ's, are also intellectuals.&nbsp; Some players may bring intellectual concerns -- like nature v. nurture -- into the game as a theme they want to play with.&nbsp; You're saying this is &quot;wrongbadfunism&quot; because you don't do it that way -- and I'm saying lighten up, &quot;wrongbadfunism&quot; is rude.For what it's worth, my DM in college was a philosophy major, and now is a philosophy professor.&nbsp; He never noticeably cared about good/evil issues in game, but if he did, that wouldn't give anyone the right to say he should &quot;not [be] running a GAME&quot;.Personally, the world I DM doesn't have moral relativism -- good is good and evil is evil -- but I do have non-evil orcs and goblins, because I think it's interesting, and because it's RAW for my edition.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="haakon1, post: 4664556, member: 25619"] That's fine. It's a CHOICE many GM's have made -- to run a beer and pretzels game that doesn't care much about the nature of its world, or to run a black and white game where there's no shades of grey. Recognize, though, that at least in 3e, by saying all orcs are evil, you are making a house rule, not following the RAW. Different people approach D&D in different ways, and many D&D players, being on nerds and therefore usually blessed with high IQ's, are also intellectuals. Some players may bring intellectual concerns -- like nature v. nurture -- into the game as a theme they want to play with. You're saying this is "wrongbadfunism" because you don't do it that way -- and I'm saying lighten up, "wrongbadfunism" is rude. For what it's worth, my DM in college was a philosophy major, and now is a philosophy professor. He never noticeably cared about good/evil issues in game, but if he did, that wouldn't give anyone the right to say he should "not [be] running a GAME". Personally, the world I DM doesn't have moral relativism -- good is good and evil is evil -- but I do have non-evil orcs and goblins, because I think it's interesting, and because it's RAW for my edition. [/QUOTE]

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