Changing Alignment
- Thread starter ravenik
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why not just make one up?
A player that finds a sword will usually just pick it up without doing a detect alignment or detect evil on it... or whatever- that cursed sword can then start to persuade them to shift alignments slowly to evil (or good if they were evil) and unless they make their save, or have remove curse (and they cant do this unless they know that they are cursd) they will have to change alignments.
Or you can just have a patron hire them to do somethign taht if they accepted will automatically change alignments.
Ex- a rich merchants wants to steal cargo, and hires the PC (neutral) to hijak it. In the process, he kills soomeone, he is now neutral evil (kill is unlawful, but he is not chatoic, and killing someone for money makes him evil)
A player that finds a sword will usually just pick it up without doing a detect alignment or detect evil on it... or whatever- that cursed sword can then start to persuade them to shift alignments slowly to evil (or good if they were evil) and unless they make their save, or have remove curse (and they cant do this unless they know that they are cursd) they will have to change alignments.
Or you can just have a patron hire them to do somethign taht if they accepted will automatically change alignments.
Ex- a rich merchants wants to steal cargo, and hires the PC (neutral) to hijak it. In the process, he kills soomeone, he is now neutral evil (kill is unlawful, but he is not chatoic, and killing someone for money makes him evil)
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careful!
When my gaming group found a deck of many things, my barbarian drew a card from the deck of many things and had her alingment changed to Lawful Good. Now, since I had "asked for it" by drawing from said deck, I really had no room to complain - I just multiclassed her to Paladin and rolled with it. BUT if you drop in an item that forces an alignment change and the player doesn't even see it coming, you should be prepared for one upset player. I would suggest one of two things:
1. give the player a chance to avoid the alignment change. If the party runs across a +2 Sword of Becoming Evil put skulls all over the hilt and have the blade drip blood or something, anything to give some clue that says DON'T TOUCH! THIS IS EVIL!.
2. Make the alignment change gradual and make it a role-playing opportunity. If Reakk's Helm of Wickedness ends up on the head of Bob the fighter, have it mentally offer Bob temptations ("Oooooohh Bob, I'll give you he power to spit fire out your nose if you'd just stop being soooooo lawful all the time. I mean what are laws anyway. Why don't you take a step towards NG huh? That a boy. Hey! Whats so good about good anyway? Ever wanted to fly at will..."
When my gaming group found a deck of many things, my barbarian drew a card from the deck of many things and had her alingment changed to Lawful Good. Now, since I had "asked for it" by drawing from said deck, I really had no room to complain - I just multiclassed her to Paladin and rolled with it. BUT if you drop in an item that forces an alignment change and the player doesn't even see it coming, you should be prepared for one upset player. I would suggest one of two things:
1. give the player a chance to avoid the alignment change. If the party runs across a +2 Sword of Becoming Evil put skulls all over the hilt and have the blade drip blood or something, anything to give some clue that says DON'T TOUCH! THIS IS EVIL!.
2. Make the alignment change gradual and make it a role-playing opportunity. If Reakk's Helm of Wickedness ends up on the head of Bob the fighter, have it mentally offer Bob temptations ("Oooooohh Bob, I'll give you he power to spit fire out your nose if you'd just stop being soooooo lawful all the time. I mean what are laws anyway. Why don't you take a step towards NG huh? That a boy. Hey! Whats so good about good anyway? Ever wanted to fly at will..."
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