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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drifter Bob" data-source="post: 1625258" data-attributes="member: 17723">I think he's a classic chaotic neutral, if a bit on the bloodthirsty side.  As you alluded to initially, his behavior does follow a consistent pattern.  Basically, he is a hard core pragmatist.  He'll help someone out if it he can do so without disrupting his plans, but he'll kill you in a minute if you cross him.I think he supports the formation of the city gov a necessary evil, in order for him to really cash in, but you can bet that this guy will always live either on the frontier or on the crazy, neglected corners of civiliztion, because he sees the proceesses with far too jaundiced (realitstic, seemingly) an eye. I think you are modernizing or christianizing your concept of Lawful Good, as most DnD players do.  Don't you thnk the typical Paladin enjoys slaying orcs and bandits and demons?  Getting carried away with violence is something which frankly happens to a lot of people who are fighters.  It's something you have to struggle with, in order to overcome the natural fear, many people replace it with a certain battle madness, or a lust for the fight.  It is very common even among 'good people'.  I know.What makes him LG is that he reigns this in.  He doesn't brawl for the fun of it, and in facts avoids uneccesary conflicts.  He ends up taking the hard road with Almas father, purely for moral or ethical reasons.His 'affair' is reminscinent of the far more egregious case of Lancelot, a mythical figure who is perhaps the archetype of a lawful good person.This is a LG person.  An adult conception of a LG person as opposed to an oversimplified comic book, DnD conception.Agreed, though again, why shouldn't an evil character feel honest affection for someone?  Can't an evil individual be nuanced? Yep, he's a baddie.  I love when he talks to himself while he's scheming.  His florid language  reminds me of the ne'rdowell chracters of the dying earth ...Yeah, Alma, I forgot all the names.  I agree she transformed herself when she kicked her opium habit.Again, isn't this westernizing or modernizing or christianizing?  To him, there is nothing particularly evil about Opium, any more than the Americans (with some exceptions!) think there is much anything wrong with they Whiskey they sell.  the latter is pobably much more widely harmful and disruptive to the community.  Same with disposing bodies.  He's just pragmatic.  Following his own understanding of the world.  He is trying to help out the members of his community, and making money however he can.  He doens't know why the Americans kill each other, but he can make money by getting rid of the bodies...  I don't know enough about the value system of a Chinese peasant in the 19th century to really judge.  do so, by all means.Hard to summarise!  I reccomend reading some reviews, google some or check out the ones on Amazon.  The range of reactions is informative...DB</blockquote>

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