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<blockquote data-quote="Simon Miles" data-source="post: 9041168" data-attributes="member: 6963474"><p>Very much with you on that one. I stick with the BTB dragons; acting out their respective alignments and consigned to them, born to them as defined by their genetic heritage. They are so rarely encountered in my campaigns as to be a fairly moot point anyway. I do, however, more widely classify Alignment as a short-hand for describing the values of the society of the creature; hence I am comfortable with the "all orcs are evil" trope. It['s the way they behave and they have reasonable motives for this, it's just their thinking is alien to the predominantly human thiking of the players so it is branded as "wrong" when it is really just "different". But, putting that WHOLE can of worms to one side, Dragons in my world are very magical creatures who feed more and more from the magical fields of the planet while they sleep as they grow older. Their motives and philosophy might be natural, genetic instincts, a moral code indoctrinated into them by their parents, or a subtle game that they play, or even a side-effect of the massive amounts of magical energy they absorb. Whatever the cause, they behave the way they do and try to eat adventurers who come to steal their loot.</p><p>And, building on that, someone suggested on a Facebook post that Dragons actually excrete treasure, which is ahy they are lying in a great big pile of it. I like this idea. It fits with my world design quite nicely...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Simon Miles, post: 9041168, member: 6963474"] Very much with you on that one. I stick with the BTB dragons; acting out their respective alignments and consigned to them, born to them as defined by their genetic heritage. They are so rarely encountered in my campaigns as to be a fairly moot point anyway. I do, however, more widely classify Alignment as a short-hand for describing the values of the society of the creature; hence I am comfortable with the "all orcs are evil" trope. It['s the way they behave and they have reasonable motives for this, it's just their thinking is alien to the predominantly human thiking of the players so it is branded as "wrong" when it is really just "different". But, putting that WHOLE can of worms to one side, Dragons in my world are very magical creatures who feed more and more from the magical fields of the planet while they sleep as they grow older. Their motives and philosophy might be natural, genetic instincts, a moral code indoctrinated into them by their parents, or a subtle game that they play, or even a side-effect of the massive amounts of magical energy they absorb. Whatever the cause, they behave the way they do and try to eat adventurers who come to steal their loot. And, building on that, someone suggested on a Facebook post that Dragons actually excrete treasure, which is ahy they are lying in a great big pile of it. I like this idea. It fits with my world design quite nicely... [/QUOTE]
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