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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8227228" data-attributes="member: 2209">I don't generally take a desire to punish, even targeted at evil, as ultimately Lawful Good. A desire to punish is just a desire to inflict harm. Targeting evil is significantly less bad than targeting good, but it is not a good end of itself. It is an action hero morality to justify being a violent good guy that is fine for the game, but I don't think vengeance or hurting bad guys as an actual end goal actually stands up to moral evaluation.In a Ravenloft game in particular I think someone who fights evil to punish it rather than to stop it can be a dark powers path.I think it is explicitly not just negative energy. They trap only darklords and empower/curse only those corrupted beings who essentially doom themselves. A tortured victim is full of negative energy, but the dark powers do not generally seem to be directly farming mass victims, but the torture of specific self corrupted individuals. Mass badness seems incidental or a possible breeding ground for more darklords or the structure needed to support a darklord and his power/curse situation.</blockquote>