everyone who plays it wants to be the paladin with the holy avenger killing liches, like good guy stuff.
Ah, I see you’ve never been at the murder-hobo table.
I mean, even in the “best” scenario of players reenacting the plot of the 1970s cartoon, you’ve still got kids pretending to be Gandalf-esque Wizards and tree-hugging hippie Druids and Ki-powered Monks, running about the world battling villainous industrialists while befriending sparkly unicorns and faeries. And that’s in the Dad-run games, where the parents are trying to keep it as PG as possible.
There are plenty of games more morally gray than that - the Curse of Stradh puts in you a bunch of nasty binds where you might align with a bog witch or a some villainous Romanians. And plenty more - Tomb of Horrors, for instance - where its an unapologetic gore-fest.
Ah, I see you’ve never been at the murder-hobo table.
I mean, even in the “best” scenario of players reenacting the plot of the 1970s cartoon, you’ve still got kids pretending to be Gandalf-esque Wizards and tree-hugging hippie Druids and Ki-powered Monks, running about the world battling villainous industrialists while befriending sparkly unicorns and faeries. And that’s in the Dad-run games, where the parents are trying to keep it as PG as possible.
There are plenty of games more morally gray than that - the Curse of Stradh puts in you a bunch of nasty binds where you might align with a bog witch or a some villainous Romanians. And plenty more - Tomb of Horrors, for instance - where its an unapologetic gore-fest.