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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flynn" data-source="post: 3792670" data-attributes="member: 1836">Umm, why does a trend in one gaming product line have to be about our society? I've never been of the view that D&D represents our society, simply because high schools play football on Friday nights instead of D&D. (There are a lot of other reasons for believing that D&D does not represent our society, but Friday Night high school football is a pretty good sign down here in Texas that D&D doesn't reflect our society. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )I have an opinion in regards to this trend, but it's only an opinion: Fiends make good enemies for adventurers to face over the course of their career. There's no denying the fact that they are evil and thus it's okay to take them out. As for why PCs can play them, the concepts of redemption and self-sacrifice make for good character development, and there's also the fact that with so many bad guys running around, there's always the chance that some of them bred, and the story of the son overcoming the dark father is also a classic story arc.However, this is just my opinion, and I don't represent WOTC in any way, so I guess we'll have to hope that one of the 4E developers pops on and answers your question.Best of Luck,Flynn</blockquote>