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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaxKaladin" data-source="post: 1745897" data-attributes="member: 1196">Let me start by saying I'm the DM in question here.  I generally play pretty loose with alignments.  I use them mostly for purposes of spells and items that affect a particular alignment.  I don't worry about closely monitoring every action for alignment drift.  I'm more concerned that the players play to their character's personality than an arbitrary alignment.  If I notice a significant and  ongoing deviation, such as a CN person obsessively obeying the letter of the law at all times, or a single huge infraction, like a LG person deliberately fireballing a group of nuns "just for the heck of it", then I'll consider an alignment change but otherwise I'm pretty lenient about alignment drift.  I should also note that the slitting throats thing is probably being blown out of proportion as I can only recall him doing it once and the person in question was a demonologists half-orc bodyguard who was carrying a sword with a demon literally bound in it to do nasty stuff to people.  The guy was stopped by a hold person at the beginning of a raid on a ceremony where the demonologist was doing a ritual to sacrifice two good aligned clerics and summon a powerful pit fiend.  Robyn slit his throat rather than trying to deal with securing him as a prisoner.  It has not happened before or since.  As regards to Vere, well, my gut instinct is to say that there wouldn't be any bonus to EGO checks, but that being the creator would mean that conflicts would come along less frequently.  After all, the bow that got picked up in a lair somewhere would have based its ethics off some other person where this one based its off of Robyn.  I think it is a very good point that sneaking around is likely to be a sore point with the bow considering its special purpose is to "Reveal that which is hidden".  It would seem I'm going to have to carefully consider the personality of the bow as it gains awareness; especially with regards to that point.  The father-daughter analogy might be particularly apt here since the bow is being made intelligent gradually, so it will start out as "semi-empathic" and work its way up the scale as Robyn goes up in levels and adds XP to further enchant it.</blockquote>

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