Holy
!
The cost of that epic spell should damn well better be expensive as hell! Can you say, "broken"?!
And V's digging the hole deeper. Wiping out an entire species of dragon is a highly disproportionate response. Even if it's not every black dragon, just the blood relatives of the mother, it's still disproportionate. Don't use the "they're evil" defense here; because they are evil, many of them will be selfish enough that they simply wouldn't care that V killed a blood relative. D&D dragons are not that empathic towards each other, so therefore, V never really needed to worry about future "threats". V's just getting an evilgasm from this.
Also, V kill stole from at least one adventuring party, and won't get the experience from it. Anyone who's ever had someone kill steal from them knows that kill stealers are the among the lowest of lowlifes, with only ninja looters worse. That too is vile evil.
If I were DMing this, I too would pull out Tiamat...after the soul splice wears off. At least that's what I'd do if a player even attempted to do this (and the spells would probably be too damn expensive to pull off in the first place). And before anyone cries foul over heavy-handed DMing, I'd think the
deity queen of evil dragonkind would certainly take notice if some little elf just suddenly wiped out a big chunk of her worshippers like this.
Anyway, the karma for this little stunt is going to be a bitch. V's doing a good job of out-eviling Belkar.
V just needs to cast a wish ("I wish that any of the dragonspawn I just killed that wasn't evil and will not take revenge on me or my family for killing their family would be resurrected") and he's golden again.
Not if I were DMing. Trying to undo the karma for this over-the-top ineffably evil act with a
wish is grounds for massive wish perversion. It's a matter of weasling out of something you did that was truely wicked instead of being mature about it and accepting the consequences.
Wouldn't it be awesome if the reign of dragon destruction continues into next strip... and we suddenly find out that someone very close to V has a little black dragon blood in his/her distant past?
That would be very good. The appropriate result of making a foolish Faustian pact like this.
Plus, this is dnd. V can just, after the splice is done, go get atonement cast by some random cleric and do some silly quest like save the universe from the snarl and call it neutral.
This is too big to simply be washed away by a mere
atonement.
