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<blockquote data-quote="clark411" data-source="post: 860945" data-attributes="member: 4768">- With the vacuum created by the loss of the evil artifact, other forces move to replace it... so perhaps many less powerful artifacts that were not necessarily good or good on the side of neutral become evil, along with whomever wields them- If the evil of this artifact is multifaceted (it likes to kill kingdoms AND babies for example) then upon it's destruction, each character present inherits an aspect of that evil and must struggle with it or embrace it (Jon the Just fighter now wishes to overthrow the goodly king and his goodly Justice... Bob Mageguy can't help but desire wringing the neck of every infant he passes).I personally prefer the second to the first (even in terms of it being personal rather than global)- as it's easier to logic out for the player characters.. beyond that, after finally defeating a great exterior problem, they have to deal with an interior one as well, which does a fantasy version of a real issue- coping with one's choices.&nbsp; Consequences that happen close to an individual usually carry far more weight than those that affect others - except in the eye-rolling &quot;Boom you've destroyed the world hee hee hee&quot; kind of effects.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clark411, post: 860945, member: 4768"] - With the vacuum created by the loss of the evil artifact, other forces move to replace it... so perhaps many less powerful artifacts that were not necessarily good or good on the side of neutral become evil, along with whomever wields them - If the evil of this artifact is multifaceted (it likes to kill kingdoms AND babies for example) then upon it's destruction, each character present inherits an aspect of that evil and must struggle with it or embrace it (Jon the Just fighter now wishes to overthrow the goodly king and his goodly Justice... Bob Mageguy can't help but desire wringing the neck of every infant he passes). I personally prefer the second to the first (even in terms of it being personal rather than global)- as it's easier to logic out for the player characters.. beyond that, after finally defeating a great exterior problem, they have to deal with an interior one as well, which does a fantasy version of a real issue- coping with one's choices. Consequences that happen close to an individual usually carry far more weight than those that affect others - except in the eye-rolling "Boom you've destroyed the world hee hee hee" kind of effects. [/QUOTE]

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