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Message: <blockquote data-quote="payn" data-source="post: 9301462" data-attributes="member: 90374">I think folks often look at alignment from a consequentialism lens. Meaning, the results of the actions matter more than the intention. I have always viewed it as opposite of that being that the character's views on society and how you choose to operate inside it are the determinant. Being willing to murder and harm people to get your way for instance makes one evil. Defending yourself or ending up in a war isnt your primary approach so its not good, but not enough to make one evil. Ultimately, being evil only matters when it comes to certain weaponry and spells one is vulnerable to. Folks are free (yes, aside from the pally) to do as they will from there.To take this back to the OP, folks like to have their cake and eat it too. They like the idea of being free on the seas doing as you please. There is a sort of romantic notion of the age of piracy from stories and folklore. It's a bit more complicated. During the privateering times, you cheered on your nations pirates as resistance fighters and guys out there giving it to your nation's enemies. Of course, the privateers from other nations were monsters and you hated them. As privateering came to closure or low point, many pirates found themselves without a home and job prospects and so they continued doing what they knew how to do. Eventually, it was a bit of class warfare, the pirates were seen by the working folk as poor good old lads giving it to the wealthy fat cats. The ruling class, of course, made them out to be enemies of the state. In between all that is the stories of murder and mayhem, but also deliverance from oppression and such. Bottom line, its an age well passed, that is mroe fun to look on as adventurous rouges, then actual dirty and sad truth of the matter.So, either you want a gritty realistic depiction in your game with all that entails, or you black and white the situation so nobody has to think about that in their favorite pastime. The question that remains, and is up to individuals, is what the middle of all that looks like?</blockquote>

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