Meditations on Evil

About this episode

The episode explores the concept of evil in D&D, discussing the implications of evil class options and the morality of characters like plague clerics and tieflings.

D&D dropped some "evil" class options. What does "evil" actually mean in this case? Can you be a *good* plague cleric? If having evil ancestors makes you evil, what does that mean for tieflings?

People in this episode

Hosts: Josh Varty, Kristoffer Hansen

Topics covered

• evil class options
• D&D
• plague cleric
• tieflings
• morality in gaming

Keywords

• D&D
• evil
• plague cleric
• tieflings
• class options

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: D&D

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