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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonaldRumsfeldsTofu" data-source="post: 1372125" data-attributes="member: 9008">This is why I have subjective alignment in my games. Any absolute law of nature that provides pages and pages of debate over ethics and philosophy by Dungeons and Dragons is not an Euclidian law. I prefer Dungeons and Dragons characters to be realistic, and not restrict themselves to poorly-defined abstract titles. In real life, people do evil things because they're mentally diseased or misinformed. I like D&D to be that way too. But of course, I find the negotiation inherent in D&D equally as fun as the combat.As for my take on the issues, I really don't find anything malicious about charming a woman into liking the caster more. There's nothing hurtful about the gesture, maybe a little chauvinistic and hedonistic, but nothing repulsive, it's kind of endearing. Even dominating someone and forcing them to have sex with you, which would be a despicable act, couldn't really be equated to rape. Both rape and date-rape cause pain and physical damage to the victim, and in the case of the former, severe psychological damage. While I wouldn't necessarily give the Nobel Peace Prize to someone going around and dominating and taking advantage of women, I wouldn't hang them for it either.As for execution and Resurrection, "low-magic" is a bad word for me, but so is "high-magic". Magic is rare and powerful enough for it not to be an issue. Plus the body would be buried and/or cremated, it would cost thousands of gold pieces, and even if the average person could get enough money to have the executee resurrected, it's not like the temple of Heironious is a Burger King. You couldn't just expect to give a priest antiquate pay and say "be a doll and resurrect my serial killer friend"</blockquote>

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