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<blockquote data-quote="Chelyrra_Eredyn" data-source="post: 2559753">Chelyrra shrugs, &quot;So this matters to you so much? Surely the care is that one should not speak of outside things within a setting and you need not have concern for the other way around.&quot;And that's an example of evil, too.&nbsp;&nbsp; Evil will often try to subvert rules, to nit-pick and point out the holes in logic or meaning or intent, the better to widen those holes and collapse the structure.&nbsp; &nbsp; Don't do this with CoC rules!&nbsp; (I've stopped being in char! really I have! The above was just for purposes of example!)&nbsp; But Chelyrra is quite capable of encouraging someone to sit on the bar by pointing out how often others do it and then she'll wait grinning for the tavern staff to come down on the hapless sap.&nbsp;&nbsp; Or she'll point out other inconsistencies in people's behaviour, or the behaviour of their friends and lovers.&nbsp;&nbsp; And she'd do more of it if she was more willing to talk to non-drow but sometimes one evil (racism) gets in the way of another. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> I like Draggy's break-down of evil into &quot;blatant&quot; and &quot;covert&quot; but I'll also add another dichotomy: &quot;active&quot; and &quot;passive&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Active evil enjoys the suffering of others and tries to cause more of it, and passive evil simply doesn't care and moves on its own agenda regardless of outside effects.&nbsp; I've seen both types well-played in ISRP.But as Fenmarel says, you need buy-in.&nbsp; You can do nasty little bits of evil on your own but the bigger stuff needs other characters that react appropriately.&nbsp;&nbsp; This works on the other side too.&nbsp; How can you play a wonderfully good char if you can't heal people who don't want to be healed, rescue people who refuse to be rescued, slay evil types who refuse to die regardless of spell or sword?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chelyrra_Eredyn, post: 2559753"] Chelyrra shrugs, "So this matters to you so much? Surely the care is that one should not speak of outside things within a setting and you need not have concern for the other way around." And that's an example of evil, too. Evil will often try to subvert rules, to nit-pick and point out the holes in logic or meaning or intent, the better to widen those holes and collapse the structure. Don't do this with CoC rules! (I've stopped being in char! really I have! The above was just for purposes of example!) But Chelyrra is quite capable of encouraging someone to sit on the bar by pointing out how often others do it and then she'll wait grinning for the tavern staff to come down on the hapless sap. Or she'll point out other inconsistencies in people's behaviour, or the behaviour of their friends and lovers. And she'd do more of it if she was more willing to talk to non-drow but sometimes one evil (racism) gets in the way of another. :rolleyes: I like Draggy's break-down of evil into "blatant" and "covert" but I'll also add another dichotomy: "active" and "passive". Active evil enjoys the suffering of others and tries to cause more of it, and passive evil simply doesn't care and moves on its own agenda regardless of outside effects. I've seen both types well-played in ISRP. But as Fenmarel says, you need buy-in. You can do nasty little bits of evil on your own but the bigger stuff needs other characters that react appropriately. This works on the other side too. How can you play a wonderfully good char if you can't heal people who don't want to be healed, rescue people who refuse to be rescued, slay evil types who refuse to die regardless of spell or sword? [/QUOTE]

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