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<blockquote data-quote="jeffh" data-source="post: 4482523" data-attributes="member: 2642">Lay off the strawmen. I never thought Belkar was anything other than Evil (if anything it was the Chaotic bit that I wasn't sure of at first), ever since he was totally unaffected by that Unholy Blight very early in the strip's history, long before OotS was anywhere near as popular as it is now.&quot;Good&quot; does not have to mean &quot;stupid&quot;; doing things, even somewhat nasty ones, for pragmatic reasons is not by itself enough to push one out of Good territory, though it can be an indication that one is straying close to the line if done too readily or when nothing much is at stake. And being accepting of capital punishment - a paradigm case of &quot;killing helpless prisoners&quot; - certainly doesn't disqualify one from being a Good character, particularly in D&amp;D.I already agreed that V is straying toward the evil end of his/her/its TN box; there's no need for all this hyperbole.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeffh, post: 4482523, member: 2642"] Lay off the strawmen. I [I]never [/I]thought Belkar was anything other than Evil (if anything it was the Chaotic bit that I wasn't sure of at first), ever since he was totally unaffected by that Unholy Blight very early in the strip's history, [I]long[/I] before OotS was anywhere near as popular as it is now. "Good" does not have to mean "stupid"; doing things, even somewhat nasty ones, for pragmatic reasons is not by itself enough to push one out of Good territory, though it can be an indication that one is straying close to the line if done too readily or when nothing much is at stake. And being accepting of capital punishment - a paradigm case of "killing helpless prisoners" - certainly doesn't disqualify one from being a Good character, particularly in D&D. I already agreed that V is straying toward the evil end of his/her/its TN box; there's no need for all this hyperbole. [/QUOTE]

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