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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Estlor" data-source="post: 2180169" data-attributes="member: 7261">Good is good.  The main difference between LG and NG is someone who is LG will try to foster goodness through law and order (or the replacing of corrupt law and order), while a NG will try to foster goodness without regard to the structure of the realm around them.  That doesn't give a NG person free reign to do whatever they want.  It means they need to do whatever is necessary within the boundaries of morality and social justice.If the merchant in question is not an evil person or someone actively committing a vile act, they would not resort to blackmail because it is a destructively immoral act.  If he is secretly a wicked man, revealing his wickedness to the population would be a priority, but no blackmail attempt would be made in that case. Breaking and entering and theft, in the eyes of a NG person, would be a justifiably good act if the outcome led to a greater good and reparations were made to the wronged person (in this case, giving him fair-market value for the item during or after the theft or using the item and returning it if that is possible).  To a NG person, "theft" and "breaking and entering" are terms invented by a lawful society to categorize things for consistent enforcement of the law.  Because the majority of such actions are done from malice, a lawful society attempts to promote avoiding such activities.  But to a NG person, said activities done without malice for a noble cause are not wrong because they violate only the artificial law of man, not the absolute law of morality. My advice - investigate other avenues of obtaining the item.  Find out why the merchant won't part with it and judge him on his motives.  You might be able to coax the item out of him without resorting to pedestrian tactics.  On the other hand, you might have to bash the door down and take it.  But an informed, moral judgement made with a clear conscience should be the final outcome.</blockquote>

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