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The only naive mistake on any players' part would be playing with this guy in the first place

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[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 47 points 11 months ago

"If my players aren't genocidal freaks like me, my thinly veiled racist caricatures will try to convince them" smuglord

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Gary Gygax was the proto-chud for this sort of thing, declaring that a Lawful Good paladin must murder the children of "evil" races or else he isn't being Lawful Good.

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Damn right I do. "Goblin Slayer" is loaded with nazi shit from the get-go and it's all narrator declared worldbuilding.

I HATE THE THERMIAN ARGUMENT

I HATE THE THERMIAN ARGUMENT

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago (3 children)

To be fair, chuds hate the thermian argument too; if you have a fantasy or sci-fi setting with an advanced race of humans who aren't white, they get upset.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Perhaps, though far more often than not (including on Hexbear) I see it being used to justify reactionary shit, from Goblin Slayer and Shield Hero and Gate and Attack on Titan's narrator-driven ideologies to increasingly-stale anti-creativity bottlenecks like Nintendo's insistence that "the prophecy(tm)" from a roughly 30 year old game requires endless repetition of the same primary beats of Zelda games forever and ever with Zelda pretty much forbidden from having playable character agency since after the CDi era except with metaphysical asspulls like, so I hear, Link's spirit allowing her to swing a sword but only then, and silliness like that.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

(I was kidding; I was implying chuds only hate the thermian argument when it's an opportunity to be bigoted)

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[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm so glad I play DND with queer theater kids

[–] Des@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

best DM i ever had was one of those.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Smh, fake D&D fans getting their morality from Goblin Slayer. Real D&D Racists get their morality from Gary "I am Adolf Hitler" Gygax.

CW: 19th century racism

[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I saw some DND guy say that the way WOTC is handling the game is making Gygax spin in his grave, which as much as I'd hate to praise WOTC, they are doing a very good thing by making him spin in his grave.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Smh, Hasbro is disrespecting the guy who saw fit to include a Random Harlot Table in the AD&D DMG. Has Big Woke gone too far!?

[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

tag yourself I'm the expensive doxy

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They are then sent off to their reward before they can backslide. :D

40k paint-huffing fascist prototype brain there.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Goblins usually being chaotic mischevious troublemakers because of the material conditions and cultural stigma that other races have against them is fine but that's it. Pathfinder handles that a lot better.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

Eberron does it well too; the goblins in the city of (can't remember) were once majorly advanced, but then ~~white~~ barbarian people happened, now they live poverty stricken in slums.

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[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The catch is that if you're ruthless towards goblins, their natural enemy (kobolds) will spiral out of control and turn the entire world into a murderhole

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I dont understand any appeal to make a race "inherently evil" like if you want something players can kill without remorse just add bandits or asshole knights.

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For years, I've established justifiable targets for violence and they were never born that way but chose to be assholes. My group was more than happy to slay them. Well, except for a few notoriously bad players that I've ranted about before. One was so chuddy that he got mad at the idea of evil sometimes looking pretty and good maybe sometimes being ugly. "I'm so SICK of that politically correct bullshit!" grill-broke

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[–] heggs_bayer@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago

Racism. Racism is the appeal.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago

A good DM won't let you massacre the demon children. A great DM will ensure you don't forget about the moral implications of killing demon children. I remember my party thought the best tactic to stop a fascist invasion would be scorched earth tactics on a critical town. However, they scorched the earth with people in it and ended up massacring the townspeople. I tried to have an arc about trying to atone for that and dealing with the fallout but I wasn't quite good enough to pull it off.

[–] milk_thief@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago

Mfer talks about a show that could have come out of Goebbels' ass or be some greasy racist 1980 porn movie like it's a source of inspiration for his next play at the duke's court

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your innately evil force in your game that exisrts for people to have something to stab shouldn't create circumstances wherein the players have the opportunity to commit crimes against humanity.

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have been kicking around a campaign idea where the BBEG is an evil wizard that has sucked all the evil out of the world to use for himself, so anything evil is instantly vaporized. Of course, the Wizard is evil and controlling, but it also upsets the natural order, so he must be stopped. Goblins are aligned neutral evil (As they often are) but along the way, the adventurers find a village of goblins who have learned to be good, but are under constant temptation do to bad things. So as the adventurers walk around the town, if they don't stop a goblin from biting them or pick pocketing them, POOF, goblin gone.

Of course this leads to a meditation on good and evil, and what that really means. Also all of the goblins are named after military contractors.

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's be funnier if the goblins being good was disturbing the natural order of the universe so the adventurers have to turn them back to evil to save the world from disharmony.

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