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<blockquote data-quote="Xardion" data-source="post: 7817920" data-attributes="member: 6744">Of course, but it's fairly rare to trick someone into trading their soul for something minor like gold. It DOES happen, but most of the time, the devils make minor deals for the purposes of corrupting them to the point where they're willing to sell their souls for personal gain.&nbsp; The nature of soul coins gives good parties a way to deal with this.&nbsp; They can spend one of the charges to ask a question of the soul, which it MUST answer truthfully, though it might be cryptic.&nbsp; A clever party can figure out a way to frame this question to determine if they're serving the greater good by feeding the coin to their war machine, maybe trading it for another, less worthy soul down the road, or setting it free (always a good act, even if they were a complete piece of garbage in life).&nbsp; It's a bad choice no matter how you look at it... but what did you expect infernal war machines to run on, hopes and dreams!!??? It's HELL. It's supposed to be Evil™ .&nbsp; The very nature of the Nine Hells can actually turn good characters evil the longer they stay there, feeding souls to war machines notwithstanding (page 79 of BG: DiA, &quot;Pervasive Evil&quot;).&nbsp; Every long rest they have to make a DC 10 Wisdom save (not hard, but 5% chance minimum every day) or become lawful evil, and its permanent if they don't leave the plane in 1d4 days. Dispel evil and good will fix it, so hopefully somebody in the party can cast it... and can notice when someone turns evil. Not like they're gonna say anything about it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Xardion, post: 7817920, member: 6744"] Of course, but it's fairly rare to trick someone into trading their soul for something minor like gold. It DOES happen, but most of the time, the devils make minor deals for the purposes of corrupting them to the point where they're willing to sell their souls for personal gain. The nature of soul coins gives good parties a way to deal with this. They can spend one of the charges to ask a question of the soul, which it MUST answer truthfully, though it might be cryptic. A clever party can figure out a way to frame this question to determine if they're serving the greater good by feeding the coin to their war machine, maybe trading it for another, less worthy soul down the road, or setting it free (always a good act, even if they were a complete piece of garbage in life). It's a bad choice no matter how you look at it... but what did you expect infernal war machines to run on, hopes and dreams!!??? It's HELL. It's supposed to be Evil[B]™[/B] . The very nature of the Nine Hells can actually turn good characters evil the longer they stay there, feeding souls to war machines notwithstanding (page 79 of BG: DiA, "Pervasive Evil"). Every long rest they have to make a DC 10 Wisdom save (not hard, but 5% chance minimum every day) or become lawful evil, and its permanent if they don't leave the plane in 1d4 days. Dispel evil and good will fix it, so hopefully somebody in the party can cast it... and can notice when someone turns evil. Not like they're gonna say anything about it. [/QUOTE]

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