Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism/Tabletop Games: Difference between revisions

** Bear in mind, hanging out at the extreme idealistic end is the ''entire point of that book''. At the other end, there are books like the Book Of Vile Darkness and Elder Evils.

** Speaking of sourcebooks and cynical end, Lords of Madness is worth mentioning. To sum it up: In the past the (previous) universe was ruled by [[Eldritch Abomination]], and in the future it will inevitably be ruled by [[Eldritch Abomination]]. Slave-taker [[Eldritch Abomination]] travel the outer space, and there is a whole dimension full of leech-like mind-controlling parasitic [[Eldritch Abomination]].

** The sourcebook "A Magical Medieval Society" applies someone's medieval history degree to D&D by pointing out that magic would make life more pleasant in the areas of medicine, sanitation, and construction. So D&D's magic concepts applied to reality would count as a fairly idealistic setting as medieval worlds go.

** It might be worthwhile to remember that, per the rules, in previous editions characters motivating their slaughter with 'I'm Good, they are Evil!' are committing [[Fantastic Racism]] (a non-good thing) unless it is warranted, IE, unless the races they are killing are [[Always Chaotic Evil|Always Evil]]. It is at this point that the DM notes that the plurality of 'evil' races in the monster manual are, in fact, not ''Always'' Evil, and that [[Knight Templar|killing innocents is an evil act...]]