Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tiberius" data-source="post: 239606" data-attributes="member: 1376">Hmmm.... that would make (roughly) 25 units of good from coordinates (x,50) to (x,25), 50 units of neutrality from (x,24) to (x,-24), and 25 units of evil from (x,-25) to (x,-50).  That is, IMO, too much neutrality.  Walking the path of neutrality is exceedingly difficult, as it is tricky to balance the acts of good and evil or law and chaos.  If I were using a grid system like this, I would give the poles 37 or 38 grid sections apiece (since 75/2 is 37.5) and give the remainder to neutrality.This is where it gets tricky.  5 points seems a bit low for the murder of an innocent  As you say, it would take five such murders to go from being a paragon of good to borderline neutrality.  I don't see how someone who has murdered four innocent people could be considered good.  It would take an additional 10 murders (15 in all) to become borderline evil.  I would make the murder of an innocent worth something on the order of 45-50 points.  Thus, on either your scale or the one I mentioned above, murdering one innocent would drop anyone into neutrality at the very least, and two would certainly make them evil.I would also make the shifts toward evil greater than the corresponding shifts towards good.  The aforementioned murder of an innocent might be worth, say, 50 steps towards evil, while saving an innocent life might be worth 10-20 steps towards good.  IMO, one must REALLY work at being good, whereas slipping into evil is easy and requires little effort.As for other penalites/boni, you need to take the characters' motivations into account.  Stealing the mayor's silverware for personal gain would be both chaotic and evil, since the gain comes at the expense of another in violation of the laws.  Stealing a Book of Vile Darkness from the local Hextorian temple in order to help end a devastating war might well be a lawful and good act, as you are acting to reduce chaos and suffering.  In the end, matters of alignment are entirely subjective and resist codification for easy graphing.-Tiberius</blockquote>

Verification