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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7206070" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Oh, I just thought of another really twisted one:Let's say you're running a campaign where Good-aligned souls go (or are widely believe to go) to a happy afterlife, and Evil-aligned souls go to misery and torment. This is treated as common knowledge by PCs, NPCs, and monsters alike. (Evil-aligned monsters may call it a monstrous injustice and rail against "Evil" as a misnomer, but even they believe that it happens.)A Guardian Naga may observe that humans, unlike Nagas, occasionally change their alignment. Sometimes Good people turn to Evil, and sometimes Evil people turn to Good. It doesn't understand why this happens but it knows that it is so. Each Good person who swings to Evil is an infinite loss (one soul that will be miserable forever instead of happy forever), and each Evil person who swings to Good is likewise an infinite gain, so even a tiny probability of falling from Good to Evil is worth expending much effort to avoid, since tiny probability * infinitely bad consequence = infinitely large expected loss. In the interests of minimizing human suffering, therefore, this Guardian Naga resolves to seal the deal for Good people (seeking out and killing those who are clearly Good) while leaving untouched those who are neutral or clearly Evil, in hopes that some of them may someday attain Goodness.In practice this means that you've got a Lawful Good mass murderer who specifically targets the best and more virtuous while leaving murderous scum untouched. When the PCs try to stop him, he forgives their misunderstanding (doesn't judge them harshly for judging him harshly) because he knows that their intentions are purely good... so he decides to kill them. Bonus points if he calmly and kindly explains the fact of his respect and appreciation for them in amiable conversation, right before his assassins launch their surprise attack on the PCs.How's that for a twisted Good antagonist?</blockquote>

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