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<blockquote data-quote="Sunseeker" data-source="post: 6546654">In a Biblical sense, sure.&nbsp; Like technically speaking in the song &quot;The Devil Went Down to Georgia&quot; Johnny is damned to hell because it IS a sin to deal with the devil AT ALL, regardless of if you win or lose at fiddling.&nbsp; However, that's a subjective moral view on the basis of a single religion.&nbsp; D&amp;D adventurers deal with evil beings all the time, sometimes they run quests for them, sometimes that involves making a deal.&nbsp; Does your entire party become evil for that?&nbsp; Maybe according the Holy Grand Chancery of *citystate*, but in the eyes of everyone?&nbsp; Does it shift their entire alignment?This is why I still don't pick alignments for my characters.&nbsp; They're &quot;good&quot; or &quot;evil&quot; insomuch that they do nice things most of the time or bad things most of the time, but I don't force them to conform to the table or someone else's definition of &quot;good and evil&quot;.&nbsp; This is why I still don't like the alignment system at all.&nbsp; Morality is subjective.&nbsp; Drow are the good guys for Lolth.&nbsp; For everyone else they're not.&nbsp; Games that make everything black and white, where the smallest of bad deeds means you're evil are hugely un-fun for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sunseeker, post: 6546654"] In a Biblical sense, sure. Like technically speaking in the song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" Johnny is damned to hell because it IS a sin to deal with the devil AT ALL, regardless of if you win or lose at fiddling. However, that's a subjective moral view on the basis of a single religion. D&D adventurers deal with evil beings all the time, sometimes they run quests for them, sometimes that involves making a deal. Does your entire party become evil for that? Maybe according the Holy Grand Chancery of *citystate*, but in the eyes of everyone? Does it shift their entire alignment? This is why I still don't pick alignments for my characters. They're "good" or "evil" insomuch that they do nice things most of the time or bad things most of the time, but I don't force them to conform to the table or someone else's definition of "good and evil". This is why I still don't like the alignment system at all. Morality is subjective. Drow are the good guys for Lolth. For everyone else they're not. Games that make everything black and white, where the smallest of bad deeds means you're evil are hugely un-fun for me. [/QUOTE]

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