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Am I the only person who likes removal of evil races? (ttrpg.network)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
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I really think people blow this crying about Orcs out of proportion, there was NEVER an actually interesting villain in this game whose reasons of being a villain boil down only to "I'm an Orc, Goblin, Drow or other evil race". And saying a whole species is inherently evil effectively diminishes all evil they do because you are saying they never could choose not to do it, which reduces them to children who don't know better. People should move on and stop flooding my yt feed with identical videos repeating the same points.

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[–] 15 points 1 year ago

Man, this was always sad when I finally realized it.

I always thought "racial alignment" was about the culture of those races conditioning those who grew up in those civilizations being raised with certain beliefs to serve as a guideline in how individuals of those races would be depicted in setting. (Or supernatural compulsions for things like Devils, Demons, Modrons, etc... but that's different)

Then I realized most people that I played with just used it as an excuse to be openly racist.

It's for the best that the system is being removed, people just don't know how to use it without causing problems. This is why we can't have nice things.

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