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<blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1283788" data-attributes="member: 8447">There are many shades of evil, just as there are of good.One of the best literary examples out there is Cardinal Richelieu from The Three Musketeers.&nbsp; (I won't go into the literary vs. historical character here.)&nbsp; Now here is a man who is evil -- he is trying to destroy the queen of France because (apparently) she spurned his advances.&nbsp; He is willing to have any number of people tortured, murdered, and generally made miserable.&nbsp; He has no pity for those that fail or cross him, be they high or low, male or female.On the other hand, he is devouted to the kingdom as a whole (and probably the king), has a strong streak of honour, is unfailingly polite, generous to his (succesful) underlings and, to the best of my knowledge, never threatened children.To my mind he is Evil, and in the D&amp;D canon probably Lawful Evil, but he doesn't exactly fit the mold.Characters like this make the whole alignment system, at best, problematic for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wombat, post: 1283788, member: 8447"] There are many shades of evil, just as there are of good. One of the best literary examples out there is Cardinal Richelieu from [U]The Three Musketeers[/U]. (I won't go into the literary vs. historical character here.) Now here is a man who is evil -- he is trying to destroy the queen of France because (apparently) she spurned his advances. He is willing to have any number of people tortured, murdered, and generally made miserable. He has no pity for those that fail or cross him, be they high or low, male or female. On the other hand, he is devouted to the kingdom as a whole (and probably the king), has a strong streak of honour, is unfailingly polite, generous to his (succesful) underlings and, to the best of my knowledge, never threatened children. To my mind he is Evil, and in the D&D canon probably Lawful Evil, but he doesn't exactly fit the mold. Characters like this make the whole alignment system, at best, problematic for me. [/QUOTE]

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