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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1811372" data-attributes="member: 5171">Have to join in with the dissenting views.&nbsp; Stealing potions of healing from the Dark Lord Kryok is not the same as stealing from innocent folks on a train.&nbsp; Stealing from evil people, or from the neutral flunkies that work for the evil people, isn't evil, no.&nbsp; Depending on your motivations, it can even be good.Stealing from innocent neutral or good people is not good behavior, and my personal feeling is that it's not even neutral behavior.&nbsp; I'd lump it solidly into evil, and only bump it into neutral if it were out of necessity rather than greed.&nbsp; This is purely greed.If you want to be a thief (regardless of your character class) and you want to not be evil, don't have him steal from innocent people.And per the story, his character knew that folks were unconscious.&nbsp; Whether or not he knew they were stable is a different story.&nbsp; And also, the player should have said &quot;fewer witnesses&quot;, not &quot;less witnesses&quot;. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Tacky's conclusion: The character is sliding toward evil, and it ain't gonna be a long slide.&nbsp; Maybe it's just because Tacky has had his car broken into enough times that &quot;But I didn't roast babies on a spit while ordering my succubus girlfriend to kill everyone in the chuch -- all I did was steal from some innocent people for no reason other than greed!&nbsp; I can't possibly be evil!&quot; no longer flies with him as a valid excuse.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="takyris, post: 1811372, member: 5171"] Have to join in with the dissenting views. Stealing potions of healing from the Dark Lord Kryok is not the same as stealing from innocent folks on a train. Stealing from evil people, or from the neutral flunkies that work for the evil people, isn't evil, no. Depending on your motivations, it can even be good. Stealing from innocent neutral or good people is not good behavior, and my personal feeling is that it's not even neutral behavior. I'd lump it solidly into evil, and only bump it into neutral if it were out of necessity rather than greed. This is purely greed. If you want to be a thief (regardless of your character class) and you want to not be evil, don't have him steal from innocent people. And per the story, his character knew that folks were unconscious. Whether or not he knew they were stable is a different story. And also, the player should have said "fewer witnesses", not "less witnesses". :) Tacky's conclusion: The character is sliding toward evil, and it ain't gonna be a long slide. Maybe it's just because Tacky has had his car broken into enough times that "But I didn't roast babies on a spit while ordering my succubus girlfriend to kill everyone in the chuch -- all I did was steal from some innocent people for no reason other than greed! I can't [b]possibly[/b] be evil!" no longer flies with him as a valid excuse. [/QUOTE]

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