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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5729454" data-attributes="member: 40166">I don't see how that has any connection at all. In particular, animals are neutral because they lack a moral sense at all. Lions are neutral, even though they kill the children of their mates, and bears are likewise neutral no matter how much they protect their children. Chimps and dolphins protect their children a lot, and both of them tend to do behavior we'd consider evil in a human.Humans, even evil humans, take care of their clan and family. That's just something we do. So do kobolds. That's not something that weights much on the alignment scale, or else the kobolds would be good. What matters is how we act towards outsiders.And personally I find it hard to really justify the miners as good guys given that their response to people outside their clan, like the kobolds, is to kill them. If you don't start from the assumption that the elves, dwarves and humans are the good guys, it's hard to reach that conclusion in a lot of D&D worlds. (Seriously, xenophobia and killing border crossers on sight is not good behavior, elf-lovers.)</blockquote>