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<blockquote data-quote="Halivar" data-source="post: 1920498" data-attributes="member: 9327">In my gaming group, it's black and white. We really don't even allow for neutrality.&nbsp; &nbsp;Question is all about how you define neutrality. If it's an absence of caring one whit for whether or not your actions help or harm others, than I would dare to say you are a bad person. Satanic? No. But definitely bad. If your idea of neutrality is a good, healthy mix of helping and hurting people, then I would also say that you are bad. Very bad.&nbsp; &nbsp;Take your average CN rogue, maybe one you've RP'd. Now ask yourself: do I want this man to have a position of any importance in my life? Am I safe around this individual? Is the world better or worse off for him being in it? (If you said yes to all these questions, I would conjecture that your character ought to be CG.)&nbsp; &nbsp;Now, are there degrees of bad? Sure. There's just bad, or &quot;neutral&quot;: our little, delightfully roguish and debonair cutpurse, who merely purloins copper pieces from passing travelers (who are walking around finding means of feeding their starving families), and then there's &quot;evil&quot;: Grognark the Wretched Bastard, the 666 hit-dice ruler of the 9,999th layer of the Abyss, who enjoys unspeakable acts of sadism and excess. So yeah, there's a gradient. But they both register on my detect evil spell.&nbsp;&nbsp;EDIT: Just wanted to put in my $0.02 about &quot;gray&quot; characters. Someone mentioned Gollum. I don't really think he's very gray at all. Yeah, he had the capacity for good. Yeah, he could have been turned to the &quot;light.&quot; Fact is, though, he's a cold-blooded murderer. Cold-blooded murderers, in my book, are evil. Eva Braun thought Adolf was a caring and warm guy, if rather prudish; nevertheless, the man was (I think we can agree) unspeakabley Evil.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Halivar, post: 1920498, member: 9327"] In my gaming group, it's black and white. We really don't even allow for neutrality. Question is all about how you define neutrality. If it's an absence of caring one whit for whether or not your actions help or harm others, than I would dare to say you are a bad person. Satanic? No. But definitely bad. If your idea of neutrality is a good, healthy mix of helping [b]and [/b]hurting people, then I would also say that you are bad. Very bad. Take your average CN rogue, maybe one you've RP'd. Now ask yourself: do I want this man to have a position of any importance in my life? Am I safe around this individual? Is the world better or worse off for him being in it? (If you said yes to all these questions, I would conjecture that your character ought to be CG.) Now, are there degrees of bad? Sure. There's just bad, or "neutral": our little, delightfully roguish and debonair cutpurse, who merely purloins copper pieces from passing travelers (who are walking around finding means of feeding their starving families), and then there's "evil": Grognark the Wretched Bastard, the 666 hit-dice ruler of the 9,999th layer of the Abyss, who enjoys unspeakable acts of sadism and excess. So yeah, there's a gradient. But they both register on my [i]detect evil[/i] spell. EDIT: Just wanted to put in my $0.02 about "gray" characters. Someone mentioned Gollum. I don't really think he's very gray at all. Yeah, he had the capacity for good. Yeah, he could have been turned to the "light." Fact is, though, he's a cold-blooded murderer. Cold-blooded murderers, in my book, are evil. Eva Braun thought Adolf was a caring and warm guy, if rather prudish; nevertheless, the man was (I think we can agree) unspeakabley Evil. [/QUOTE]

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