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<blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1629283" data-attributes="member: 1328">How evil? It depends.There's several shades of evil, from the Pyoure Eeeeeevol of fiends to the petty evil of the greedy man who will never help anyone unless he's paid a hefty sum for it.Like in D&amp;D's rules, alignments is dictated by actions. The worst the outcome of your action, the lower you fall.So, if you take three merchants cheating on their customers. Let say they sell milk, and to increase their profit, they adulterate it with water. As the resulting milk is too clear, they need to add something else to hide their cheating.Merchant A uses a product that's relatively harmless. He's cheating on his customers, but nothing too grave ensues. He's &quot;a bit&quot; evil, he'll probably stay neutral if he's not a complete bastard in other domains.Merchant B uses a harmful product. Over the next years, his customers will suffer from various malaises, from light to severe, and his poisoned milk will be partly responsible for the death of some people with frail health (babies and the elderly, notably). Merchant B is plainly evil. If he does good things otherwise, then he's merely a hypocrit or trying to assuage his troubled conscience. As long as he continues poisoning what he sells, he'll stay evil.Merchant C uses a product that turns all the drinkers into slave zombies under his control, who will then proceed to force feed the tainted milk to every other person they find. Merchant C is Eeeeeevol. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious&nbsp; &nbsp; :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gez, post: 1629283, member: 1328"] How evil? It depends. There's several shades of evil, from the Pyoure Eeeeeevol of fiends to the petty evil of the greedy man who will never help anyone unless he's paid a hefty sum for it. Like in D&D's rules, alignments is dictated by actions. The worst the outcome of your action, the lower you fall. So, if you take three merchants cheating on their customers. Let say they sell milk, and to increase their profit, they adulterate it with water. As the resulting milk is too clear, they need to add something else to hide their cheating. Merchant A uses a product that's relatively harmless. He's cheating on his customers, but nothing too grave ensues. He's "a bit" evil, he'll probably stay neutral if he's not a complete bastard in other domains. Merchant B uses a harmful product. Over the next years, his customers will suffer from various malaises, from light to severe, and his poisoned milk will be partly responsible for the death of some people with frail health (babies and the elderly, notably). Merchant B is plainly evil. If he does good things otherwise, then he's merely a hypocrit or trying to assuage his troubled conscience. As long as he continues poisoning what he sells, he'll stay evil. Merchant C uses a product that turns all the drinkers into slave zombies under his control, who will then proceed to force feed the tainted milk to every other person they find. Merchant C is Eeeeeevol. :] [/QUOTE]

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