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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gloombunny" data-source="post: 3839843" data-attributes="member: 54916">Well, what's wrong with the pact-beings being neutral?  You don't need to use an inherently good tool to be doing good.  Following your analogies about doing business with Nazis, does doing business with neutral people mean you have to be neutral?  I don't think so.  You can argue that any pact with demons is a bad thing, since demons are pure evil and giving them anything is an evil act no matter what you get in return.  But I don't think you can stretch that argument to cover pacts with anything that merely isn't pure good.Personally I would be very disappointed to ever see warlocks making pacts with angels.  If you can get same powers by dealing with angels as you can from dealing with devils, then anyone who deals with devils is just a chump.  The whole point of dark sorcery is that you're supposed to gain power from it that you couldn't otherwise have.  That's why it's a temptation, despite its obvious drawbacks.  Unless you like comic-opera villains who twirl their moustaches and murder kittens for fun, you're not going to get much dramatic use out of a devil-dealing villain if he could've gotten the same power and the moral high ground just as easily.</blockquote>