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Is casting a spell with the Evil descriptor an Evil act?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3184320" data-attributes="member: 8439"><p>This is the kind of situation where I think its worth distinguishing between moral and supernatural allignment. They obviously interact in D&D (do enough morally bad things and you will show up on a detect evil spell) but aren't always the same (be of morally nuetral allighnment and worship an evil god and you'll still buzz the detect evil spell). If you channel enough [evil] energy, your Supernatural Allignment will obviously tilt towards Evil. No point to the descriptors if that doesn't happen. Will that supernatural tilt poison your Moral Allignment, making Morally Evil acts seem more acceptable? I think it would, and in terms of storytelling its a common enough idea. </p><p></p><p>As for all the "turn it arround" questions - yes, if a Morally Evil person regularly used [good] descriptor spells, it would tilt their Supernatural Allignment towards Good. This could be an interesting way for a villain to try to desguise his Moral Evil from supernatural detection. However, just as with the evil taint, the constant channelling of [good] energy could cause a Morally Evil person to begin questioning himself, weaking his ability to ack as ruthlessly as he used to.</p><p></p><p>So my answer would be that casting [evil] spells is definitly a Supernaturally Evil act, and even if you go into it for Morally Good reasons, in the long term it could have an effect on your Moral Allignment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kahuna Burger, post: 3184320, member: 8439"] This is the kind of situation where I think its worth distinguishing between moral and supernatural allignment. They obviously interact in D&D (do enough morally bad things and you will show up on a detect evil spell) but aren't always the same (be of morally nuetral allighnment and worship an evil god and you'll still buzz the detect evil spell). If you channel enough [evil] energy, your Supernatural Allignment will obviously tilt towards Evil. No point to the descriptors if that doesn't happen. Will that supernatural tilt poison your Moral Allignment, making Morally Evil acts seem more acceptable? I think it would, and in terms of storytelling its a common enough idea. As for all the "turn it arround" questions - yes, if a Morally Evil person regularly used [good] descriptor spells, it would tilt their Supernatural Allignment towards Good. This could be an interesting way for a villain to try to desguise his Moral Evil from supernatural detection. However, just as with the evil taint, the constant channelling of [good] energy could cause a Morally Evil person to begin questioning himself, weaking his ability to ack as ruthlessly as he used to. So my answer would be that casting [evil] spells is definitly a Supernaturally Evil act, and even if you go into it for Morally Good reasons, in the long term it could have an effect on your Moral Allignment. [/QUOTE]
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