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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Damon Griffin" data-source="post: 1744562" data-attributes="member: 3568">I don't want to spend a lot of time discussing Robyn's personality here, but it may be helpful to this discussion to provide a bit of background:  Robyn's a half-elf, raised by his elven parent in a woodland elven region.  Two groups of humans border the elf lands on either side, and the woodland is being invaded by one group or another all the time; there are economic pressures at work here that I won't go into right now.  Raised in this environment, Robyn eventually became a ranger and has Humans as his Favored Enemy.  He's not xenophobic to the point of mania; he's the sole non-human in our adventuring party, all of whom are in the employ of another human.  He gets along with the other PCs, and indeed most humans, well enough.However, once someone has declared himself, by word or action, to be his enemy, that person becomes an "enemy combatant", not entitled to any particularly fair treatment.  So for example, Robyn might find it expedient to slit the throat of a magically "held" person, rather than taking the time to tie him up for later questioning.  Or if three enemies have been captured and none of them wants to talk, he might kill one in front of the other two to encourage cooperation.  This is not something he does all the time, but he's done both those things at least once.  Both times we were dealing with opponents who were coming after us in order to make us dead, dead, dead.Remember, Chaotic Good means I'm interested in what's good for me and the individuals I care about, including my employer.  I'm not interested in what's good for my opponents.I don't think Robyn is in serious danger of alignment drift.  He's had a hard life in some respects and has no reason to love humans, and this makes him more ruthless and/or bloodthirsty in some situations than our party cleric might like.  But I created Vere as a "merciful" weapon and I do just knock out opponents if it seems to make sense to do so.  Sneaking around is part of my job; our party doesn't include a full time Rogue.Vere also has the "renewing" quality, so I think she'll be okay even if her bowstring gets a little wet.Not smarter; I'll have the higher INT even after she hits 25 EGO.  But by then she'll have a higher WIS and CHA than me.</blockquote>

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