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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordVyreth" data-source="post: 3796954" data-attributes="member: 9626">You know, I remember having this exact same argument back when that drow article of Dragon came out years ago and the question was whether drows are nearly inescapably super-evil (as the article implied,) or whether they were a viable PC race.  To be honest, I find the common geek response to evil races to be neither cheap, poor taste, or whatever you term it, but the opposite.  Throughout culture, even in modern days, we have a tendency to label the new, unfamiliar, or alien as evil universally.  As geeks, though, we have the opposite reaction.  We are presented with a race defined as ultimately evil, and we immediately want to make one good.  Granted, attractive or "cool" races are more common examples, but I've seen examples of beholder paladins and pacifist mind flayers as well.  Instead of being in poor taste, I think this sort of activity is an paragon of enlightment and maturaity.  Sure, many will just play the character to be cool, but it also opens pathways of role-playing and development tied to cultural conflict, the nature and origin of evil itself, and societal abandonment.  It's the very definition of good taste.And, let's face it, most people who play dwarves do so for a Con bonus or the excuse to do a bad Scottish accent.  How is that any less cheesy?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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