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<blockquote data-quote="SableWyvern" data-source="post: 39164" data-attributes="member: 1008">First off, I'd like to point out that I'm not looking for a definitive answer here. Its just a thought, feedback on which would interest me.Could a character who will not, where possible, injure children, be evil? The question arises from the antagonists in Die Hard III. The main bad guy, while he threatens to blow up a school, would not do so; similarly a couple of the bad guys won't leave a bomb lying on the streets because it could be found by kids.I'm pretty happy with the alignments in 3e - I feel that alignments are intrinsic to the classic D&amp;D feel, and was glad to see they were written up in a less concrete, far more playable fashion in this edition.But evil, as written, still seems to indicate a desire to kill for fun or the feeling of power, irrespective of the victim's status.So, would the characters mentioned above be evil or neutral?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SableWyvern, post: 39164, member: 1008"] First off, I'd like to point out that I'm not looking for a definitive answer here. Its just a thought, feedback on which would interest me. Could a character who will not, where possible, injure children, be evil? The question arises from the antagonists in Die Hard III. The main bad guy, while he threatens to blow up a school, would not do so; similarly a couple of the bad guys won't leave a bomb lying on the streets because it could be found by kids. I'm pretty happy with the alignments in 3e - I feel that alignments are intrinsic to the classic D&D feel, and was glad to see they were written up in a less concrete, far more playable fashion in this edition. But evil, as written, still seems to indicate a desire to kill for fun or the feeling of power, irrespective of the victim's status. So, would the characters mentioned above be evil or neutral? [/QUOTE]

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