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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 145263" data-attributes="member: 2067">First off, evil isn't an abstract in D&D. It's tangible, representable. Particles and energies and forces of evil exist, and that's what makes it fantasy. You can play good guys vs. bad guys in a way that is impossible in the real world. Or you can play bad guys vs. the world in the same way.You could do away with alignments and with this concept....it's not too hard. But default D&D has evil energy, the same way it has fire energy or sonic energy. Evil energy is produced from evil people. Actions don't have an alignment -- characters do. This is important. Evil doesn't have to mean demon-wicked (though it can). It could mean thug-on-the-street wicked.Of course, in the Real World, you could debate about good and evil all day and still never get anywhere. I'd be happy to do that, but not here. <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=":)" />Play whatever way you have fun. Really, who am I to tell you how you should play?But please, don't tell me that because you like to play evil characters, you are somehow truly enlightened. IMHO, enlightnement cannot come from simply pretending to be that which you are not.I've played good characters. I've played evil characters. I've played characters that dance about in some of the gray area in between. I've seen players play immaturely evil characters, and those who have played evil characters reconizable as villains. Neither is really long, as long as it's fun. Sometimes, Snidely Whiplash is a blast to play. In my game, one of heroism and fantasy, it's a far more apt character than one who tries to emulate any real-world person that is believed to be evilDon't pretend that playing evil characters your way makes you better than those who don't. Try your best not to be condescending to those who may object with you. Don't call me blinded or someone who just goes with the crowd, or ignorant of what you so obviously know due to your vast experience with evil characters.Your message seems to be quite...preachy. Quite rebel-mistique, IMHO, too. I'm not trying to judge you, but when your first post has a thesis of "I'm going to show you the light that you haven't seen because you're too busy doing things the usual way, while I have defied the norm and gained such insight into the world around me that I must show people how great and right I am by telling them why I defy the norm, and do it the right way," it's a bit hard to take you without a grain of salt.Maybe I've known too many preachy anti-hero punk boys. I'm not into taking the road less traveled simply because it's the road less traveled. Don't tell me that I'm wrong for not doing that. Especially in something as trivial as D&D alignment choice. <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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