Choatic Neutral or Choatic Evil?

[sineater]

I have a player who has a fighter that is choatic neutral. Well in our last adventure he found an altar and figured out how to use it. He discovered if he sacrificed something he would be rewared with a great magic treasure. So once we headed back to town he decided to hire a npc to go back with him to this altar. He did not bother to tell the npc what his intentions were. He just lied to them saying he needed his help carrying something and would pay them for there help. Well needless to say as soon as they got there it was over and the npc was killed. All just so he could have a great magic item.

To me this is just pure evil. He killed an innocent person to make himself better. Without a second thought. So I am thinking about changeing his alignment to Choatic Evil. I would like some other thoughts on this matter from you guys and gals.

Thanks

 

[Alejandro]

Evil.

 

[Tonguez]

Evil

and please tell me there's a catch - the Altar of Bllod just has to be cursed and extract a price from the PC (besides all the sacrificial victims) - obviously it causes the alignment change does it also drive him insane?

 

[RogueJK]

I dunno about Choatic Evil, but I'd definitely say that's Chaotic Evil.

 

[Macbrea]

He is just a poor misunderstood youth. Suffering from magic item envy. Clearly he was not evil but repressed as a youth. My feelings is he should be hunted down by the nice authorities for being the last known person to walk out into the woods with Johnny. After a couple of years of reforms, these feelings should be suppressed. If he is found to still have these feelings a purifying flame should remove them from his soul.


C.E.

 

[Crothian]

That's evil. Hard to say it is anything else.

 

[reapersaurus]

"The lady down the block
She had a radio that Johnny wanted oh so bad
So he took it the first chance he had
Then he shot her in the leg
And this is what she said
Only a lad
You really can't blame him
Only a lad
Society made him
Only a lad
He's our responsibility
Only a lad
He really couldn't help it
Only a lad
He didn't want to do it
Only a lad
He's underprivileged and abused
Perhaps a little bit confused "

Only a Lad, Oingo Boingo

Chaotic Evil, most definately

 

[Terwox]

Lawful Good.
He should immediately multiclass paladin, too...

 

[Gromm]

Yeah thats pretty much CE. Now if he had sacrificed someone he could rationalize as deserving it, its still an evil act, probably not enough to make him evil though.

Honestly it really matters more how he handles everything else. Is he a normally nice guy other than this incident? Is he using the magic item for the good of the people, or just himself?

You have to consider that if someones CN and they say give a large sum of money to some poor person (or whatever you consider a very CG thing to do), they don't automatically become CG for it. They can get away with a little evil and a little good.

Of course this is more like a whole bunch of evil balanced against what I'm sure is a life of middle the roadness, so he's probably CE. Or just say that the altar made him that way, its the easiest solution and he can't really complain since he had to know tis was the likely result of his actions.

 

[Macbrea]

Giving a whole lot of money to a peasant isn't always a good act. Heck, I did it in one game to cause problems in the poor district of town. Gave one kid a large diamond I had in front of all the other peasants as I walked through. He ended up dead by dawn. So, did about 5 other peasants and the diamond finally ended up in the hands of the thieves guild I wanted to give it to.