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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 2830458" data-attributes="member: 7883">Well said.  That's kind of what I was getting at, though it's interesting to see the Eberron analogy, because in many ways it's correct.  Even the ECS points out that in a good priesthood you could have an evil priest who's supporting his order's goals, but has ceased being actually provided with spells by his own Power, but instead by another, darker one.Jack's a bit like a rabid dog.  A rabid dog isn't a good thing.  But a rabid dog on a pole that allows it to be controlled, and being used to track down serial killers?  It's a bad thing being put to a good purpose.Maybe, given the opportunity to relax, and get out of that career, and these situations he keeps ending up in, Jack might eventually drive back towards good.  Maybe he'll eventually do something that will shock even him, and it will send him into such a crisis of faith that he questions what he's been doing to date, and changes his MO.In the D&D system, I could also see the flipside....what about an evil king, who's LE.  He believes in the good of the many over the one, bending his own laws to accomplish his goals, etc.  But he's got his chief minister who's actually "good", and he uses this minister because the minister implements policies that keep the overall populace happy, and paying their taxes as a result.  Meanwhile the king doesn't care if they're  happy, but he does care if they become unhappy enough to revolt, because then he has to spend money he's been saving up to put the revolt down.  Dragonlance is another setting where I could see this happening.  In many of the novels you've got evil and good characters working together.  Wouldn't work in Forgotten Realms, I think.Banshee</blockquote>

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