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A Guardian Angel... Good or Bad Idea?
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<blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 8626580" data-attributes="member: 98008"><p>Insane angels are a staple of my settings. If an angel is separated from their patron, they lack true free will or ambition. They start going mad if they cannot perform their primary functions. They are also naïve and single minded.</p><p></p><p>Examples of how this can be problematic that I have used:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An angel protects the temple and its clerics. The high cleric is corrupted and the bad guy of the adventure. The angel will just do what he is told to do.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">An angel of vengeance will meet out brutal punishment (normally death) upon anybody it is told is bad. The villagers go to it and tell them that farmer joe stole their pig, it kills the farmer. That dead farmer's wife tells it that the other people lied to it to make it kill an innocents man, it kills those people too, etc etc on and on. Every town feud becomes a massacre.</li> </ul><p></p><p>So having John start off as a real blessing is great, but I would start hinting that he really needs to get home, for his own good and everybody elses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Unwise, post: 8626580, member: 98008"] Insane angels are a staple of my settings. If an angel is separated from their patron, they lack true free will or ambition. They start going mad if they cannot perform their primary functions. They are also naïve and single minded. Examples of how this can be problematic that I have used: [LIST] [*]An angel protects the temple and its clerics. The high cleric is corrupted and the bad guy of the adventure. The angel will just do what he is told to do. [*]An angel of vengeance will meet out brutal punishment (normally death) upon anybody it is told is bad. The villagers go to it and tell them that farmer joe stole their pig, it kills the farmer. That dead farmer's wife tells it that the other people lied to it to make it kill an innocents man, it kills those people too, etc etc on and on. Every town feud becomes a massacre. [/LIST] So having John start off as a real blessing is great, but I would start hinting that he really needs to get home, for his own good and everybody elses. [/QUOTE]
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