The single biggest chud I ever had in my tabletop group insisted everything he did was “Chaotic Good.” That included using magic trickery and lying to pretend to be the god of a low-tech island nation to try to turn them into slaves. He argued “they’re primitive and stupid and I’m doing them a favor!”
They’re primitive and stupid and I’m doing them a favor.
Oh, so he was just roleplaying as a snooty elf who will redeem themself, right?
They’ll do a redemption arc later, right?
But yeah, DnD is one hell of a good look into some people’s psychology, the guy I had at least gave up the ghost that he didn’t care so much about what is right and more of what works, like a chuddier adult in the room thing.
EDIT: Almost immediately after posting I realized mind flayers were a bad example
Oh, so he was just roleplaying as a snooty elf who will redeem themself, right?
One of his most absurd rants came after I said how I liked how the Elder Scrolls series typically presented the “pretty” people/culture as often the source of evil and misery (Altmer “High Elves,” more often than not) and he went on a long rant about how he was sick and tired of evil being shown as pretty and good being shown as ugly and blamed “political correctness” (he’s an old fuck and as far as I know didn’t pick up on the woke/DEI terminology since) for that.
What a great story that would be where the pretty people are born good and the ugly people are born evil! Gygax would be proud!
Nope. He was one of those ego-insert enjoyers that treated the tabletop game as an isekai power fantasy where he basically played as himself with better stats, and insisted that because his acts of petty cruelty and tyranny were, quote, “done on a whim,” that surely they are chaotic in nature, and because he “was light of spirit and unburdened by petty morality” that he was good in a way that the cosmos should recognize and respect.
I keep saying, reactionaries love to call themselves Chaotic Neutral but they’re textbook lawful evil.
The single biggest chud I ever had in my tabletop group insisted everything he did was “Chaotic Good.” That included using magic trickery and lying to pretend to be the god of a low-tech island nation to try to turn them into slaves. He argued “they’re primitive and stupid and I’m doing them a favor!”
Oh, so he was just roleplaying as a snooty elf who will redeem themself, right?
They’ll do a redemption arc later, right?
But yeah, DnD is one hell of a good look into some people’s psychology, the guy I had at least gave up the ghost that he didn’t care so much about what is right and more of what works, like a chuddier adult in the room thing.
EDIT: Almost immediately after posting I realized mind flayers were a bad example
One of his most absurd rants came after I said how I liked how the Elder Scrolls series typically presented the “pretty” people/culture as often the source of evil and misery (Altmer “High Elves,” more often than not) and he went on a long rant about how he was sick and tired of evil being shown as pretty and good being shown as ugly and blamed “political correctness” (he’s an old fuck and as far as I know didn’t pick up on the woke/DEI terminology since) for that.
What a great story that would be where the pretty people are born good and the ugly people are born evil! Gygax would be proud!
Nope. He was one of those ego-insert enjoyers that treated the tabletop game as an isekai power fantasy where he basically played as himself with better stats, and insisted that because his acts of petty cruelty and tyranny were, quote, “done on a whim,” that surely they are chaotic in nature, and because he “was light of spirit and unburdened by petty morality” that he was good in a way that the cosmos should recognize and respect.