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<blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 3660053" data-attributes="member: 2518">You forget that alignment in D&amp;D is based on actions not intend. Someone who wants to do evil but doesn't do it is not evil. To be evil someone must have done evil. And the alignment description in the PHB rather clearly says that to become evil you have to do some seriously evil acts (don't forget that 1 act alone is not enough to change someones alignment).Someone in D&amp;D who is evil has murdered, &quot;tortured&quot; (hurt) or oppressed (in a evil way) and not simply thought about it. Debase or Destroy innocent lives are the key words. As long as those things aren't fulfilled the acts are &quot;not nice&quot; but not evil.And &quot;Jerk&quot; is in no way a strawman argument. Many DMs rule that a merchant who overcharges for his goods is evil or a thief who steals from other people is evil but non of those things are. They are not nice (which makes those people jerks) but as those acts don't debase or destroy innocent live they are neutral.You have to accept that you can't compare D&amp;D evil with real life &quot;evil&quot; (=Things you would define as evil in reality which normally is everything which is not nice).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Derren, post: 3660053, member: 2518"] You forget that alignment in D&D is based on actions not intend. Someone who wants to do evil but doesn't do it is not evil. To be evil someone must have done evil. And the alignment description in the PHB rather clearly says that to become evil you have to do some seriously evil acts (don't forget that 1 act alone is not enough to change someones alignment). Someone in D&D who is evil has murdered, "tortured" (hurt) or oppressed (in a evil way) and not simply thought about it. Debase or Destroy innocent lives are the key words. As long as those things aren't fulfilled the acts are "not nice" but not evil. And "Jerk" is in no way a strawman argument. Many DMs rule that a merchant who overcharges for his goods is evil or a thief who steals from other people is evil but non of those things are. They are not nice (which makes those people jerks) but as those acts don't debase or destroy innocent live they are neutral. You have to accept that you can't compare D&D evil with real life "evil" (=Things you would define as evil in reality which normally is everything which is not nice). [/QUOTE]

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