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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 366501" data-attributes="member: 3146">I would be very interested in a Book of Exalted Deeds.As long as it dealt with heroism and good in a game rather than simply new sets of feats and good creatures to kill the bad guys. (Not that those shouldn't be present but rather that those shouldn't dominate the book).Evil is easy to create on my own. Even vile evil. First because, unlike good it's all basically the same. (Not that all villains are the same--I recognize perfectly well that there are differences between Sauron, Lord Soth, Gollum, and Kitiara to raid from several well known books. However evil is all essentially deviation from one of the standards of good. There are only about ten ways to break the commandments. There are millions of ways to keep them. How much difference is there really between the atrocities of Hitler, Stalin, Mugabe, Pol Pot, the Romans, that southern California creep, Charles Manson, the Aztec sacrifices, and the worship of Molech? Not much really.  How much difference the between the good embodied by St. Augustine, St. Boniface, and St. Francis? How about between Jesus, Socrates, Confucius, and Bhudda?)Plus it's very easy to rip evil from the headlines of the news and current events. Try to do that with good and heroism. Other than the police and firement of 9/11, you won't come up with much.</blockquote>