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Bad Guy Characterization 3: The character of pure evil

+Aaron McLin made a comment on my previous post noting that if you actually have (say) a plane of elemental evil, where evil is a real, tangible thing, then working through the “they don’t think it’s evil” thing doesn’t work. From the comment feed on G+ Tabletop RPGs: That, I think, depends on how you want…

Bad Guy Chararacterization 2: General McChrystal does RPGing

Yesterday I talked about how my almost 5yo came up with – with no prompting – that the “bad guys” in the Lego Movie didn’t think they were bad – they thought that the good guys were bad. And of course, the British thought the same thing about the American Revolutionaries (and were technically correct)…

RPG characterization wisdom from a 5yo

My not-quite-5yo daughter: “You know, in the Lego Movie, the good guys think the bad guys are the bad guys, but the bad guys think the good guys are the bad guys.” See? Even a five-year-old (not quite) knows that the bad guys do what they do because they think it’s the right thing from…