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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ezrael" data-source="post: 402778" data-attributes="member: 6262">Not to disagree for the sake of disagreeing, but I've lost count of the number of times supposedly good characters did those two things. I think if you make the effort to play an interesting character, good or evil, he wouldn't go on indiscriminate killing sprees when hiding would work just as well. And there's no reason a character should go whoring just because he's evil, or refrain from it merely because he's good (plenty of men who would maintain their 'goodness' have been to a prostitute throughout history) and the same with drinking. I think an obsession with these activities, whether it be in a game or in real life, doesn't necessarily mean that the person in question is evil.Like I've said before, I've played evil characters. They weren't uncouth or stupid or base, just evil. I don't personally like playing characters that visit prostitutes (I'm not telling anyone else they can't or even maintaining that it's somehow damaging to anyone, it's just not something I want to do) or drink heavily, and whether I play a Paladin or an Assassin, I tend not to play those kinds of people. It has bugger all to do with my character's alignment.Well, that's a fair decision for you to make. I don't necessarily think that they're connected: the ale and whores evening doesn't seem especially evil to me. Uncouth, base and boring, yes, but not evil. So far as the slaughter of the guards when stealth would have done, I've seen players do that all the time...sometimes for no other reason than they play a character who isn't very good at stealth or because they play D&D for the the fights. Combat's a big part of the game, after all. I do think you certainly learned something from the experience, and in of itself that could be seen as worthwhile. I don't agree that realizing you could enjoy role playing those things would mean you were indifferent to evil. I've enjoyed immensely role-playing a character who sought the deaths of dozens of innocent people just because they were descended from an enemy of my clan, and yet I am still quite shocked and horrified by many of the atrocities humanity is capable of. I haven't lost my empathy or my humanity by playing evil, because I know it's a game. I don't live my life the way I play, I never have.Oh, and unctuous means oily, to answer your question, SemperJase.</blockquote>

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