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Violence and D&D: Is "Murderhobo" Essential to D&D?
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<blockquote data-quote="toucanbuzz" data-source="post: 8020201" data-attributes="member: 19270"><p>I didn't start playing D&D because I wanted to hug orcs and explore my feelings with murderous yet ambiguously-aligned, ethnically non-offensive kobolds and convince myself to see the errors of <u>my</u> ways once I understand their perspective of being taunted and oppressed by gnomes, who get away with this oppression and have deities that trick kobolds because they're a PC race and kobolds just never got their chance.</p><p></p><p>I played it to escape real life in a medieval fantasy world like the ones I read about in books. You know, the ones where Drizz't kills a lot of creatures, where there's a continent-wide war in the Dragonlance books, where Frodo doesn't wonder if his sword needs more "subdual" options when he stabs an orc. Or, like the "Alien: the Roleplaying Game" advertisement that pops up on this screen. I'm pretty sure there's going to be violence. </p><p></p><p>Years later, this hasn't changed for my gamers. And I remember one day, one of my players, a female gamer in her 40s, came to the table early. She said "today, I just want to kill some stuff." I said OK. She'd had a bad day. She wanted some escape. And it wasn't random killing. She wanted to punish some bad guys. So that's what we did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toucanbuzz, post: 8020201, member: 19270"] I didn't start playing D&D because I wanted to hug orcs and explore my feelings with murderous yet ambiguously-aligned, ethnically non-offensive kobolds and convince myself to see the errors of [U]my[/U] ways once I understand their perspective of being taunted and oppressed by gnomes, who get away with this oppression and have deities that trick kobolds because they're a PC race and kobolds just never got their chance. I played it to escape real life in a medieval fantasy world like the ones I read about in books. You know, the ones where Drizz't kills a lot of creatures, where there's a continent-wide war in the Dragonlance books, where Frodo doesn't wonder if his sword needs more "subdual" options when he stabs an orc. Or, like the "Alien: the Roleplaying Game" advertisement that pops up on this screen. I'm pretty sure there's going to be violence. Years later, this hasn't changed for my gamers. And I remember one day, one of my players, a female gamer in her 40s, came to the table early. She said "today, I just want to kill some stuff." I said OK. She'd had a bad day. She wanted some escape. And it wasn't random killing. She wanted to punish some bad guys. So that's what we did. [/QUOTE]
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