Guide to the Gray Waste of Hades | D&D Planescape

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• YO

  @youcantbeatk7006 · 1 year ago

  I always liked and thought it was a very smart decision to deliberately have contradictory myths in the D&D lore because not only does it put the players in their character's shoes for not fully knowing the lore, but it also gives DMs ways to have mysteries and plot twists built into the setting even if the players know the lore intimately.

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• PL

  @PlanktonWhisperer · 1 year ago (edited)

  Wade: &quot;I&apos;m gonna scale down my vids&quot;.<br>Also Wade:<br>No hate tho. Love those things being given love.

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• TH

  @the_vanguard5314 · 1 year ago

  Hades is awesome. You know how they say that all it takes for evil to win is for good men to do nothing? That&apos;s the kind of apathy I see in Hades. Yes, you coud make a difference - if only you could care enough. Doing evil by doing nothing at all is perhaps the most insidious kind of evil there is.

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• GL

  @glamourweaver · 1 year ago (edited)

  My alignment hottake on explaining neutral evil is that while Vader who was in part corrupted by his desire to bring Peace and Order to the Galaxy is Lawful Evil - Palpatine who is ONLY self-interested, and causes widespread chaos as willingly as crushing tyranny to seize what he wants is actually Neutral Evil, despite often being used as an example of Lawful Evil.

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• JO

  @joemeenie · 1 year ago

  I like this video. The fact that you don&apos;t just read the wiki pages to us is a breath of fresh air. And you discuss and address lore inconsistencies and don&apos;t just gloss over them is helpful. Well done.

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• TR

  @troybrewster102 · 1 year ago

  As an old 2E &quot;grognard&quot; who has spent his time rolling around the great wheel. I absolutely have to give you props. You might never get the numbers you deserve but your digging into lore and also including real world influence is second to none in my opinion. 🤘

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• CA

  @cameronpearce5943 · 1 year ago

  I love the Barnoloths. They’re terrifying. Inverse Neutral Evil, selfless evil. They do nothing for personal gain, just methodological, dispassionate, efficient spreading of evil. Like the Lich but for Evil instead of Extinction

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• SU

  @suy21 · 1 year ago

  Damn, I just watched the first minutes and I am loving it as usual. You have a talent for making good scripts for this. The philosophy of Planescape and the alignments are something that you excel at IMHO. I have watched many of your other videos about philosophy/ethics and it shows that it&apos;s something in which you are informed about.

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• ST

  @sturdyblastoff9300 · 1 year ago

  Finally, the fifty shades of neutral evil

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• VO

  @voryndagothDL · 1 year ago

  Covering the underrated planes is a stroke of genius. Hard to find info on lower plans besides the Abyss and Nine Hells

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• TR

  @Treejayy · 1 year ago (edited)

  Fun philosophy fact: but there are 2 main methods of defining evil. One which is describes evil as essentially “doing bad things”, causing others to suffer and appealing to negative virtues like greed and hate and so on. The other way is to define evil as merely an absence of good, viewing good and evil as being on a similar type of spectrum as light, where darkness is not necessarily its own thing but just the absence of light. One notable adopter of the 2nd version of good and evil is Tolkien (and this philosophy forms some of the moral core of his novels if I remember), whose work as far as I know is the undisputed biggest inspiration behind the setting of D&amp;D. I wonder if the designers of plane scape were paying homage to Tolkien in some way by setting up the morality on the neutral evil plane the way they did. Especially the way that it drains people of what they are, leaving them absent of good.

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• ME

  @MerqE328 · 8 months ago

  You are doing the lords work putting these vids together

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