17 June 2016: Good and Evil

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Shardstorm
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Re: 17 June 2016: Good and Evil

Post by Shardstorm » Mon Jul 18, 2016 7:43 pm

Well then that just proves the point I wanted to make. It's not external to BE, it's internal.
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Re: 17 June 2016: Good and Evil

Post by YardMeat » Tue Jul 19, 2016 6:02 am

Shardstorm wrote:Well then that just proves the point I wanted to make. It's not external to BE, it's internal.
If that's the way Thunt has decided to run it, but that would not be the case for the core rules of 3.x DnD. DnD presupposes ethical realism/objectivism, not internalism/subjectivism. Good and evil are elemental force, no more "internal" than fire or earth.

Spells like "detect evil" and "smite evil" also presuppose such externalism. If good and evil were purely internal points of view, how would spells like those work? Would they be "detect those who consider themselves to be evil" or "detect those who I would consider evil if I had more information about their motivations and actions in the past"?

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