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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steenan" data-source="post: 6248911" data-attributes="member: 23240">It's probably not entirely justified, but when I read "morally grey", I expect something dull. A game where both true heroism and true villainy is discouraged, where the characters rarely if ever have moral motivations, where everybody is a cynic.And that is the exact opposite to what I want to play.I want to play an idealist, with strong passions. Someone who wants to do the right thing. Who sometimes heroically succeeds and makes things better - and sometimes goes too far, or makes some stupid decisions. Maybe I realize that what I did was wrong and learn from my mistakes. Maybe I'll be crushed and transformed through pain. And maybe I'll become worse than the evil lord I wanted to destroy. Leave it in my hands. Ask me hard questions and let me answer them.  Just don't force me, a priori, to be white. Or black. Or grey.As an example, a handful of most fun characters I played:1. A pacifist scientist who abhorred violent conflict, but later broke all his rules to revenge his murdered fiancee (and nearly got himself killed in the process). Only after that, gradually, he understood that not the fight itself is important, but what you fight for. And ended up significantly changing the world for good, in a way that neither his passive research nor his violent passion could.2. A mage that joined the party simply to spy on them for his guild. But he didn't predict how fighting with them side by side will affect him. He fell in love with the paladin, shared his secrets with her and joined her in her efforts to reform her church.3. A young prophet, a "chosen one", on his way to unify humanity. He had no idea (but I, the player, knew) that most of what shaped his beliefs was a result of demonic manipulation. And he had to face the truth - when he already inspired people to follow him. Is it better to live by a lie and try to make something good of it, or tell the people who abandoned their homes to follow you "I was wrong all the time"?None of them was fully good, nor fully evil. But they weren't grey either. They were full of contrasts, not shades; driven to change, not to walk the middle path. Where does it fall on the spectrum?</blockquote>

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