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Message: <blockquote data-quote="taferial" data-source="post: 3658904" data-attributes="member: 41867">Just to add my thoughts to an intresting thread...Prety much evryone has had a base thought at one time or another, the urge to harm in some way an object of frustraition/ anger/ fear and so on, the diference is most of us dont act on these impulses. Likewise, as gm's and players, we have all planed out revenge plots and macivelian plans to entertain and amuse. We dont, however, enact them in the real world to see if we are as clever as we think we are.The people heading into incarceration (in this example at least) have had these thoughts and impulses and have acted on them. If you reverse these individuals alignment, arnt you more likely to end up with people willing to enact hidious things in the name of good instead? The chaotic evil mastermind with a passion for torture would most likely become the lawful good member of the secret police with the absolute conviction that pain is a soul cleanser and the only way to guarantee someones guilt or innocence.The lawful evil assassin becomes the Chaotic good vigilantie, stalking the streets strikeing down whoever is breaking the law without thought to scale. An assassin deals with absolutes, theres unlikely to be any diference in his/ her opinion between a shoplifter and a murderer.This is just my opinion of course, but this type of re-habilitation wont stop these characters commiting atrocities, but just change their reasons for them.As a GM I have used this type of idea to create some truely nasty villians, villians who are so fanatical about the greater good that it clouds their judgement and poisions their actions.As a player ive made some realy fun characters that have suprised me and have shown better character development and better rounded personalities than the more traditional characters I have made.Obviously, all this is coloured by my own world wiew, so I give you some other peoples examples - The Stainless steel rat (and wife), Dexter the serial killer forensics guy, Snake Pliskin, robocop two (and one kinda), thinking about it, the list of reformed vilians into anti heros is kinda extensive.</blockquote>

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