You said the power is dark. That implies its use is not good. I would say you can choose, on the spot, to change your alignment and accept what you know to be corruption to use the feats. But, if that happens, you have to work against that corruption. In my view of fantasy, its always easy to fall to evil, but hard to get back to good. Its not one dimentional at all, its the nature of the absolute alignment rules.Mistwell said:You have no clue at all why I want this class. NONE. You attribute false intent to me. It's not cheese, it's not a power grab. Indeed, the actual intent is to not use the feats unless the role playing situation calls for it, which I am fully aware might result in an alignment change. It IS interesting, to me, and it's a situation that cannot occur in the way you seem to view the game. In your world, a character could not actually use the darker powers to slip back to the eviler alignment (since they no longer have access to them) - they would have to change their alignment first to get to the darker powers again. That makes a lot less sense to me. Sometimes it would be corruption that leads to use of power, and sometimes the use of power is itself the corrupting factor, and not the intent prior to the use. In your world, apparently there is only one option, not both. I would find that more boring and one dimensional I suspect.
I didn't jump to conclusions, actually, I simply responded to what you wrote. You wanted the abilites of the class without meeting the pre-reqs. That much is clear. Then, I went on to question whether this is more cheesy than interesting. As it gives you power without the cost, I call it cheesy. What you actually thought of it, I didn't know until you said so. This doesn't change the fact that I still think its cheesy. It doesn't matter if you think you are powergaming, what matters is if you ARE powergaming. If your motives were only "this would be cool" it doesn't change my opinion of the results. I'm commenting on the results, not on you. You made my comments personal, not me.Mistwell said:Why you would attribute cheese and power grabbing motives to me without actually knowing the situation I don't know. I suppose everyone has a bad night, so I will just chalk your assumption leaping up to that. But in the future, be kind enough to not jump to conclusions about my motives without actually asking me about them first, okay?