Oots #468

[PallidPatience]

Bah. This is turning into an alignment thread for no reason.

I will agree to disagree with you, Nifft.

Also, you said 'lust... Heh heh...

 

[Nifft]

Bah. This is turning into an alignment thread for no reason.

Erp! Yeah. Alignment in Rich's world may not be exactly what it is in my campaign.... We'll see what he does with it.

Cheers, -- N

 

[PrinceXaxor]

This should lead to some fun follow-up panels. I don't think we'll see anymore character deaths, not even the "redshirts."

 

[Gez]

It's just her actions and methods that fell short.

It's just her actions, her methods, and herself that fell short.

And D&D alignments are totally dictated by actions. If you have to slaughter/torture/rape a whole orphanage in order to save the world, because of a particularly contrived and implausible scenario that has been devised just to screw up with your character, and you do it; then you're evil. Period. No arguing.

Motivations take a backseat. Sure, it's possible for an evil character to do good deeds in order to bluff people. And that won't make them good all of a sudden. But that's because, as Commodore Norrigton would put it, one good deed does not erase a lifetime of villainy. The reverse, though, is much easier. If you commit an evil act to be accepted in the Secret Cult of Doom in order to thwart their plans, you committed an evil act and your alignment is in peril.

That's because alignments are not football teams, they can't swap players around, and the shirt color is not the only difference in an otherwise perfectly symmetrical disposition. Evil is a lower state than Good, and entropy dictates that it's easier to fall than to rise.

 

[iwatt]

Has anyone else noticed that Rich is setting up "Fleeing hobo tyranny....The last junk....leads a fugitive fleet....

Yeah I noticed. But it might be because I've just watched the first and second seasons of Battlestar Galactica on DVD last night.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Huh? Whya this strange foresight? Roy won't be in any group as long as Haley (with Belkar) brings his remains to Durkon, which means that if there is a Roy, the group is reunited.

Durkon isn't the only cleric in the world. It'd be just like Rich to separate them and have some other cleric (or some other power in general) resurrect Roy.

 

[Jdvn1]

But each group only gets half the time. Not sure I see anyone getting more screen time out of it.

Maybe, Banjo?

 

[Gez]

Durkon isn't the only cleric in the world. It'd be just like Rich to separate them and have some other cleric (or some other power in general) resurrect Roy.

Dunno, Durkon just complained he was relegated to off-panel actions...

 

[DreadArchon]

Revenge? Greed? Bloodlust? These don't make you evil. They might earn you a Dark Side point in Star Wars, but in D&D, killing badguys for whatever reason doesn't make you evil. (Or if it does, I have yet to see the rule which states or even implies that it does.)

Heh, reminds me of Heroes of Horror:

The point of D&D is to smite evil and take its stuff.

 

[LoneWolf23]

I wonder if Belkar would detect as Evil right now? He did save Hinjo. And he hasn't done much actual evil since messing with Miko.

-- N

Alignment isn't simply a matter of tallying one's actions. It's also a measure of one's intents, and what Belkar intends to do is keep messing around with the people around him and kill the things that truly annoy him.

...That's Evil, or at least Non-Good.