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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6885060" data-attributes="member: 12731">Unfortunately, campaigns featuring morally gray enemies with sufficient strength to encourage diplomacy over murderhoboing is the exception to the rule for D&D.Most campaigns feature giants, drow, demons, orcs... the kind of enemy noone in their right mind would negotiate with. (It's especially pronounced with Drow. There have been more than one megacampaign which would benefit greatly if the players have the background necessary to actually deal with the Drow, as oppose to the usual choice between kill or be killed. These campaigns expend considerable effort to detail the power struggles between different factions; something that is utterly lost when the Elf and the Paladin stomps onto the scene)There are very few (read virtually no) campaigns where the enemy is someone whose motivations for being "evil" is remotely understandable and not just moustasche-twirling end-of-the-world shenanigans. There are very few campaigns where the "good guys" are also morally compromised. There are very few D&D campaigns that doesn't use fantasy races to shield us from having to consider our actions the way a human-vs-human war would.It's just not D&D's way. (Even in Ravenloft, murderhoboing your way to enough levels to wipe out Strahd like a mere computer BBEG is treated as a completely viable, if not the default, approach)So my guess would have to be "no"</blockquote>