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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 1917547" data-attributes="member: 1106">[sblock]I read in a book called "The Blank Slate" which was about the evolution of the human mind that people innately attribute virtue to beauty, and the opposite to ugliness....just as weirdly as we attribute "filth" to lack of virtue.  It makes no intuitive sense, but this is human nature, which often isn't designed to make sense.  The author cited the examples of how easy people find it to believe Michael Jackson is a monster because he now looks like one, and how overrated Princess Diana's virtuousness was due to her prettiness (yes, she worked at charities, but as a princess that's basically your job - compare her to the rather homely Charles who did similar work).So this makes drow stand out even more, as you've pointed out - they're pretty and evil.I suppose most monsters are black hat/white hat encounters, and slaying them without remorse is part of the "license to kill" that D&D's alignment system grants the game - a troll isn't likely to mend his ways any time this existence.  For moral ambiguity and grey areas, you can't go past humans.As for slaughtering bunnies, that's what al-mi-raj are for.  And to think some people don't like the Fiend Folio/Tome of Horrors... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> [/sblock]</blockquote>

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