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<blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 1175918" data-attributes="member: 9037"><p>It is not that I don't get satisfaction from playing a good character and the challenge involved ,I prefer to play a good character. But it gets frustrating when there are no rewards for it and your actions don't make any difference.</p><p></p><p>And the rewards I am talking about are mainly role playing rewards and that you can only get from a DM who brings them into the game. For example in the one game I played in I resuced two kobold pups and raised them I tried to teach them to be good. Some of the party were mean to them so only one became good the other believing the bad things said about him was going evil. That was a great role playing situation. </p><p></p><p>But if the DM does not give you anything like this and allows the neutral's to do what ever they want with very few consequences then you start to say why bother playing good it is just not fun.</p><p></p><p>Let me give you an example the wizard of the party has a celestial badger as a familiar he plays a true neutral not the balance kind but the I don't care kind I just want to be safe and have lots of magic items.</p><p></p><p>So far in the game he has antimated dead a spell with an evil descriptor, helped commit cold blooded murder where poison was used, lied to the other party members about items he has identified one of these items is a spellbook that has one evil spell in it it allows you to make warriors the componet reguries the life of another being he withheld this from us and the party sold the book because he claimed the spell could be used for a lot of good things.</p><p></p><p>Doing all this he still has a celestial badger not a blip on the radar that his familiar would be unhappy with this. This makes me grind my teeth in game because it ruins my ability to see the game as any thing other than your basic roll not role playing game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elf Witch, post: 1175918, member: 9037"] It is not that I don't get satisfaction from playing a good character and the challenge involved ,I prefer to play a good character. But it gets frustrating when there are no rewards for it and your actions don't make any difference. And the rewards I am talking about are mainly role playing rewards and that you can only get from a DM who brings them into the game. For example in the one game I played in I resuced two kobold pups and raised them I tried to teach them to be good. Some of the party were mean to them so only one became good the other believing the bad things said about him was going evil. That was a great role playing situation. But if the DM does not give you anything like this and allows the neutral's to do what ever they want with very few consequences then you start to say why bother playing good it is just not fun. Let me give you an example the wizard of the party has a celestial badger as a familiar he plays a true neutral not the balance kind but the I don't care kind I just want to be safe and have lots of magic items. So far in the game he has antimated dead a spell with an evil descriptor, helped commit cold blooded murder where poison was used, lied to the other party members about items he has identified one of these items is a spellbook that has one evil spell in it it allows you to make warriors the componet reguries the life of another being he withheld this from us and the party sold the book because he claimed the spell could be used for a lot of good things. Doing all this he still has a celestial badger not a blip on the radar that his familiar would be unhappy with this. This makes me grind my teeth in game because it ruins my ability to see the game as any thing other than your basic roll not role playing game. [/QUOTE]
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