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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7397675" data-attributes="member: 4937">No, that's not the problem in this case.  He really does have a plan to share the power.  He's really serious about it.  In a sense, he's a very selfless person.  The problems in this case are not something I want to specify, since my players haven't yet fully figured it out.  But one problem that they have encountered repeatedly is that if you think, "At some point in the future, I'm going to be a god.", then it tends to go with the thought, "I can break anything I want along the way to that goal, because once I attain it, then I can put everything right."  In other words, the BBEG believes that the ends are so good, that any amount of evil - any amount of collateral damage if you will - along the way is justified by the ultimate goal.  Once he makes humanity into gods, then all that brokenness he created along the way can be fixed - the dead can be raised, the maimed healed, the impoverished enriched, and so forth.  Well, for one thing, I've lived in my head.  I can assure you, you don't want me to be a god.  There are actually a bunch of other problems with the statement, but I think it's enough to stop there.And no one that would covet that power could be trusted with it.  Why would you ever believe that increasing the percentage would be to anyone's good?  Humanity for example, surely some percentage of the entire population of sentient beings and all the ones we can easily enumerate, is notorious for not using its power wisely or responsibly.  What makes you think that giving any of them more power than they have would work out well?  And since when have ever the members of that race which strive for power been the sort you'd most want to obtain power?  It doesn't in my opinion seem to matter much how you spread out the power.  Whether anarchy or autocracy, humanity seems to find a way to be miserable.  And it's not like the wealthy and powerful seem to get less problematic, nor do the poor and disempowered consistently cover themselves in glory.  There are problems here that go much deeper than how you arrange the chairs.</blockquote>

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