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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 2588164" data-attributes="member: 32740">It's not wrong in and of itself, nor taboo.  What it is is lame.  There is never (IME) any roleplaying involved in this kind of embezzlement.  Nothing particularly clever about it.  It's like being the banker when playing Monopoly.  It's pretty much just a cheap, cheezy way of cheating.It is the other PLAYERS who are generally trusting you to simply be fair and above-board with treasure division.  Players who have their characters embezzle in this fashion are simply taking advantage of that META-GAME trust of other players to make it easy and nigh-impossible to detect the theft IN-game.Given that, I would have to see OVERWHELMING, COMPELLING roleplaying reasons for a PC to be allowed to do this - I will not allow it just because it can be done.  The supporting arguments for this position actually come from arguments regarding how players sometimes abuse alignment, using it as an EXCUSE to justify their actions.  For example, just because a characters alignment would ALLOW them to murder another PC does not mean that the character WILL do so, MUST do so, or SHOULD do so.  PC's are working together as a party for a reason.  It is primarily up to players to have reasons for their PC's to WILLINGLY ASSOCIATE and even PREFER the company of their fellow PC's right from the start.  Just as you wouldn't allow a new Evil PC into a party of good aligned PC's and then allow that Evil character to start murdering the other PC's just because his alignment allows it, you must not allow a rogue PC to freely embezzle from the party just because his alignment and class allow it.In short - playing a rogue does not give you a license to cheat other PLAYERS out of their characters fair share of loot just because your CHARACTERS class and alignment can be used as an excuse.</blockquote>

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