Name's familiar btw, do I remember you from the Beamdog forums?
Undoubtedly.
Originally Posted by Ieldra2
TLDR: A statement that all members of a group are necessarily evil without exception makes – even by worldbuilder fiat – no sense as long as they are psychologically human enough to make it possible to have them as protagonists in a class of stories which are, by observation, perfectly plausible and not altogether rare in fantasy worlds like the Forgotten Realms (see below). Since almost all races and peoples are psychologically human enough for that, as a rule it makes no sense to make the aforementioned statement about any group.
I agree, and concur. Unless a fantasy race (or species or whatever) is specifically created to be evil (like Middle Earth Orcs) I don't like the notion of fantasy races being universally and/or inherently evil, because that means they have no free will. I'm OK with Middle Earth Orcs being like that, but not Faerunian Orcs. Because that does not seem to mesh with the notion of Orcs as an officially available player character race in D&D.
