Been thinking of Dragonlance again lately. And one thing that strikes me is that the setting works so much better on a classic Moorcockian axis of Law vs Evil than it does "good vs evil", so I thought I'd write to unpack my meditations on this. For one, the whole "i am on the side of EVIL" shtick. Does that even exist? has it ever? There has been plenty of evil in world history, but as near as I can see, even in those cases of self-admitted evil, it has been something accepted as a means to a higher end, never an end in itself. Team Evil simply isn't a coherent position. Law and Chaos however, are very much coherent positions. And it makes a lot of things in Dragonlance coherent quite easily. For one, it gives the black hats a justifiable place in the world. Sure, a lot of Chaos followers may be evil (owing to the ease with which Chaos can be used to deconstruct of moral order), but they are not necessarily so. They are also agents of liberty, change and ren...