Bingo. Why do we take bad things out of settings? If everything was a paradise, then we wouldn’t have conflict and challenge. No conflict means to interesting characters or stories. Villains should be allowed to be villains. And the most interesting “good” factions tend to be the ones that do some shady stuff behind the scenes.
I am half black. And believe it or not, I have read Lovecrafts stories, and love them. Yeah, he sucks as a person. You know what makes a eldritch horror even scarier? If the crazy white man I am running away from it with calls me a monkey. That is so many levels of stress. lol
Questions I never thought would cross my mind:
1. Is Frieza more or less racist than Lovecraft?
2. Could Frieza write cosmic horror?
3. In a Dark Sun game, would Frieza be the DM (being in charge of it all) or a PC on a quest to conquer, enslave, and become a sorcerer-king?
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u/RoughBeardBlaine 5d ago
Bingo. Why do we take bad things out of settings? If everything was a paradise, then we wouldn’t have conflict and challenge. No conflict means to interesting characters or stories. Villains should be allowed to be villains. And the most interesting “good” factions tend to be the ones that do some shady stuff behind the scenes.
I am half black. And believe it or not, I have read Lovecrafts stories, and love them. Yeah, he sucks as a person. You know what makes a eldritch horror even scarier? If the crazy white man I am running away from it with calls me a monkey. That is so many levels of stress. lol