Muser wrote:
I'd like to play a hobgoblin since they have a very interesting history with some areas of Golarion. However, I don't particularly care for villain decay and actually prefer your typical dark hordes of orcs, goblins and the like to remain as adversaries. Same with the drow - classic evil bad guys who deserve all the hatred you can muster.
One divergent individual, such as Fall-from-Grace, Drizzt, etc, once in a blue moon is fine and can set up some interesting character-driven roleplay, but do it more than twice and I quickly lose interest.
I like narratives of exile, redemption and regret just as much as the rest, but don't think every 0 hd race needs to serve as a vehicle for them.
To clarify, I'm not advocating a general shift of orcs, goblins, and kobolds towards being neutral, but I would just like to make the point that no sentient race deserves to be killed on sight, and I feel like having the occasional monstrous race in the Society would be one way to accomplish this.