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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 7346534" data-attributes="member: 58197">When in doubt, choose the less heavy-handed option. "Lose all your powers" is the most heavy-handed thing there is. I'm not even gonna call it a last resort; to me, it's no resort. I would flat-out kill a PC before doing that.As much as possible, I avoid policing how players choose to play their characters. The world reacts to their actions, sure, but I draw a red line around the character sheet. The game world belongs to me. Your character belongs to you*.Clerics and paladins are the only classes where I'd even consider crossing that line; those classes are explicitly built around the idea that a deity gives you power to advance that deity's ideals. If you egregiously violate those ideals... well, your old deity might cut you off. But a cleric or paladin of any significant level is a valuable asset. Another deity (probably a rather nasty one) likes the cut of your jib and takes over granting you power. You might not even know for a while.But, again, that's only where the PC's whole concept involves a god looking over his/her shoulder and it's impossible to justify a lack of response from that god. Druids ain't clerics. They don't have gods, they draw power from nature, and nature is capable of horrific brutality. I would take this as an opportunity to explore the druid's conception of nature, maybe give some indications that he's touched a darker side of the forces from which his power comes.And don't let the other players pressure you into doing something against your better judgment. They can run their games how they like. It's your game and your call.[SIZE=-2]*This is why I do my damndest to ignore alignment. You can write whatever you like in that space. Slaughter innocents on a whim and call yourself Lawful Good? Sure, go for it. That's not the label I'd put on you, but feel free to bathe in hypocrisy. Just don't get upset when NPCs who are actually good people take a violent dislike to your character.[/SIZE]</blockquote>

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