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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 408976" data-attributes="member: 812">What's wrong with eating dead people?My campaign has non-evil ghouls. There are a number of different classes of undead, one of which are those who devour human flesh -- those who need to eat living human flesh are vampires (not blood-sucking, flesh-eating) and those who eat dead human flesh are ghouls.Now undead do not have a metabolism and so don't biologically need to eat. What happens, though, is that the longer they go without eating, the less rational they become. Which REALLY sucks if you've just been turned into a vampire -- you can either eat your friends (probably going mad in the process) or you can not eat your friends (and definitely go mad. And then eat them). The idea is that the magical processes that power these creatures need to be fed, and if they are not, those processes begin to warp the mind of the poor undead.There's in fact a major rehabilitation project ongoing for a woman who was turned into a vampire long ago -- she's not a vampire anymore but she spent a long time trying to not be a horrible monster and so she's completely insane.Back to ghouls: So these creatures call themselves the Children of the Grave and they roam about eating dead bodies. Most of them try to be civilized and don't create bodies for dinner -- they just break into crypts and chow down on beloved fathers and well-remember grandmothers. Which makes them pretty upopular in some places but for the most part they're treated the same way, for example, bears are treated in a place like Banff -- you see them around all the time, making a mess in the cemetery but just stay clear and they won't bother you. Some cultures burn their dead so as to deny the ghouls their dinner, and some cultures actually have funeral rites based around offering the deceased to the ghouls for devouring.It's all a little wacky. I just wanted ghouls to be the good guys for a change.</blockquote>

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