Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/19/good-vs-evil.html
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Don’t forget to kill the Kobold babies. They’re only worth 1/4xp each, but it all adds up.
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He reflected on the nature of good and evil - and chose evil. The pay was better.
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Members of the sociopath party face no cognitive dissonance because they have convinced themselves that only people like them count as people. Among his college classmates, yes, we must all learn to be ethical. When it comes to those brown foreigners who don’t speak English, well, that’s another matter entirely.
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Because the game was being played by legacy Harvard students?
His first job out of college was council for acquisitions and mergers for large corporations and he was a life-long Republican who served under Bush II.
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Anyone spending any time in D&D communities wouldn’t be shocked a low magic morals-focused D&D game would be run by a right-wing authoritarian. Let alone a Catholic one.
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There are few things more dangerous to liberal democracy than a geek gone sour.
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the players jokingly called the setting Eric created "Catholic World."
That’s what I call my childhood.
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The question remains; Lawful, Neutral or Chaotic?
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Catholic Panic!
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I just have one concern. Is that photoshopped Trumpian hair on his head or is it real? If real, holy moly but no wonder he fits right in with Trump. The same comb-over from Hel.
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Lawful obviously. I mean can you get more lawful evil than this?
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This is sort of easy to understand. It’d be easier to think of separating children from parents if you think they’re all evil subhumans. D&D morality is easy because “good” people can do evil things to “evil” types with out repercussions and still feel virtuous.
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It also is easy to understand how someone like him could see little difference between a controlling a game and controlling human lives in reality.
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To someone like him, the whole thing is a game. (Life.)
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OMG! I just read this twitter feed on a friend’s recommendation last night, when another friend asked about ICE protests… talk about a sharp turn in the narrative!!!
Amazingly powerful.
Perhaps the new advocacy org MACC?
Asshole puritan DM is asshole IRL. Who’d’ve guessed? DMs are hard to come by so I guess that’s why they stick with him.
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Nah, it’s clearly Chaotic Evil. They made up laws , denying that they are doing what are they doing, blaming the Democrats, blaming the victims. A Lawful Evil character would had a plan and a clear justification.
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And that’s exactly the thing. In his campaign, kobolds weren’t automatically evil for being kobolds, they’re only evil when they actually do something evil. But now, immigrants are evil simply for being immigrants, and not for anything they do. It’s an exact reversal of the morality in his RPG campaign.
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