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And I don't think there is anything wrong with that. Sometimes I want media that is just about good versus evil. The real world is complicated and hard to navigate. Sometimes you want to kick back and be a hero fighting against the forces of darkness.

To me this feels like doing real world moral philosophy though. This argument goes beyond not being able to imagine evil objects and good objets and seems to extend to not being able to imagine evil gods or good gods. Unless I am misunderstanding the point you are making. The conceit of a D&D...

I dont' know how prevalent the idea is of evil being physical things in D&D. I feel like good, evil, etc are more like cosmic forces that people align with. And that some beings are generated by these forces. But I can still imagine an evil or good object in a number of different ways. One is a...

The best thing about 1E psionics was they made the GM's head explode just like Scanners

I do find D&D cosmology a little bit cartoonish (it is one of the reasons I preferred the Ravenloft setting). But I don't think it is hard to imagine. It strikes me as somewhat Manichaean.

This is why Lawful Good Paladins of Sartre are the absolute worst. They just go around killing anyone they please. By their definition, even other Paladins of Sartre are fair game.

Oh. My mistake. I haven't played the 3E version. I thought people met as a whole. There were definitely other tones than horror in 2E, but certainly not League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The 2E version was actually quite good (and it is up on Drive thru---I just ordered it since I lost my boxed...

Masque of the Red Death was definitely horror

Yeah, D&D is a game where violence is largely the point. Characters will be killing things, that is part of the fun, I don't see any reason why it can't be righteous. That doesn't mean people have to take a simplistic worldview of violence and morality into life. It just means people enjoy...

Yeah I see the Paladin more rooted in this and things like Arthurian legend (that is well before the crusades). The armor of the paladin tends to be anachronistic but I wouldn't say the paladin therefore meant to reflect the crusades. I think if you did the crusades you would likely have...

I think it is a safe bet, if you are watching pineapple express, whatever your personal opinions about pineapple on pizza, you aren't going to care that much if the pizza has pineapple or not

Don't worry, Alanis Morissette can fix it

It is a pretty varied genre and those shows are great. I used to watch a lot of long form wuxia series (as well as series that were much heavier on the magic). If you watch a movie like come Drink with Me or Magic Blade, those give a pretty good sense of the how grounded it can be (Magic Blade...

I think this depends a lot on the style. Wuxia can be pretty grounded, especially when people understand the basic rules of where the abilities come from. If you are modeling it after say '66 to '77 Shaw Brothers of example, it is quite 'low magic'. If you are modeling it after Condor Heroes...

I don't think of campaigns as ever really having an end. I mean some do come to an end, but I don't look at them as a thing to complete if that makes sense