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<blockquote data-quote="The Hitcher" data-source="post: 7670746" data-attributes="member: 63747"><p>Ultimate evil can work as a kind of force of nature - something as pure and inhuman as a volcano or sandstorm. In that form, it can be an obstacle against which the hero's mettle is occasionally tested. But as soon as that evil becomes personified into a character that is even a slight approximation of a person, it pretty quickly becomes cartoony. Likewise for minions who are evil just because their boss is. What's in it for them? Characters need somewhat understandable motivations to be characters at all. Otherwise they're just set dressing with hit points. </p><p></p><p>And personally I think a fantasy world populated with complex characters is by far the more interesting alternative. If "good guys" sometimes turn out to be liabilities and "bad guys" to be assets and sometimes you just have no idea, that is way more interesting than just rolling a whole lot of d20s on the way to the big boss.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, Satan is quite frequently a sympathetic character, even to Christians. I'm quite partial to the version from Sandman, myself.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This. Imagine how boring roaming the Planes would be if you could already tell EXACTLY how every celestial or fiend was going to act just by looking at them?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Hitcher, post: 7670746, member: 63747"] Ultimate evil can work as a kind of force of nature - something as pure and inhuman as a volcano or sandstorm. In that form, it can be an obstacle against which the hero's mettle is occasionally tested. But as soon as that evil becomes personified into a character that is even a slight approximation of a person, it pretty quickly becomes cartoony. Likewise for minions who are evil just because their boss is. What's in it for them? Characters need somewhat understandable motivations to be characters at all. Otherwise they're just set dressing with hit points. And personally I think a fantasy world populated with complex characters is by far the more interesting alternative. If "good guys" sometimes turn out to be liabilities and "bad guys" to be assets and sometimes you just have no idea, that is way more interesting than just rolling a whole lot of d20s on the way to the big boss. Yeah, Satan is quite frequently a sympathetic character, even to Christians. I'm quite partial to the version from Sandman, myself. This. Imagine how boring roaming the Planes would be if you could already tell EXACTLY how every celestial or fiend was going to act just by looking at them? [/QUOTE]
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