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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gramcrackered" data-source="post: 1627128" data-attributes="member: 19168">Eh.  I see no big need to go into the specifics of power checks - it'd take for freakin' ever.  I will say this though.There's a sliding scale of evil, as it were.  See, you gotta keep in mind not only what you're doing, but who you do it to.  If you brutally murder your landlord because he's a vampire and has a tendency to rip people's heads off and then eat their brains with a spoon...well...odds are, they'll be no serious reprecussion.  Only a 3% chance you fail the power check.  Do the same thing to your best buddy and those odds spike up to 10%.  That's not great, but, hey - let's be honest; chances are really low you fail that check and what are the odds you're best buddy suddenly gets a craving for brains anyway?Do it to a little girl though just because you don't like the way she whistled as she skipped down the street and you'll find yourself automatically moving one scale down the Path of Corruption.  100%.Honestly, you'll probably never evoke a power check with a chance higher than 10%.  Torture a villian to get information?  4%.  Steal from a random merchant so you can buy that magical sword you want?  1%.  Kick the crap out of that bugbear when you know he's evil?  0%.The only thing that's likely to screw you is if you make a mistake in whether or not someone is evil.  Like I said, it's not big deal to torture a villian.  It'd be a HUGE risk to do the same thing to some guy who you THINK is a kidnapper, only to discover he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Hell, that's pretty much an automatic failure on a power check.</blockquote>

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