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so, exactly how evil are we talking here? (kinda long)
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<blockquote data-quote="Negative Zero" data-source="post: 839016" data-attributes="member: 3794"><p>ok, a lil background info; the party has been in this area for a short time, some 4-5 months of game time. and when i say "in this area" i really mean in the neighbouring country. in that time, and country, they've assmased a decent amount of fame and notoriety as "heroes."</p><p></p><p>they've saved a village and a town from destruction on two seperate occasions each, and destroyed a threat to the capital in the form of an insane mage. they're ventured into the sunken island home of a large group of sahuagin, and destryoed the super powerful artifact that they were using to control the weather, and the subequent plan to sink one of said villages. they've also managed to broker an alliance between this human nation, and a large tribe of lizardmen. all of this has afforded them somehting of a legend status in the area.</p><p></p><p>currently, they're in a neighbouring country, who has declared war on the country that we've become heroes in, on a mission to break the connection between the oposing Baron and the real BBEG who's set up shop there. we're in "enemy territory," <em>inside</em> the main castle, in their capital city, trying to execute a comando style raid on the BBEG's tower. </p><p></p><p>unfortuately this doesn't leave us a whole lot of time to come up with creative ways of dealing with incapacitated opponents. having them arrested and "brough to justice" is pretty much not an option, since the current establishment is the one who hired these guys in the first place.</p><p></p><p>brining him back to his intended victim was a real nice idea, except that we're kinda on the clock ... and we knocked her out with the same sleep poison that we'd used on him (to make it look like we attacked her in case we didn't make it).</p><p></p><p>now lets get something straight, personally i really love our GM's style. and i find he's probably the fairest GM i've ever played with. i don't really think that he's the sort to save an NPC jsut coz he likes him, and that's not what i'm really here to discuss. i just wanted to get other people's ideas on the right and wrongness of the situation.</p><p></p><p>mostly, i agree with green slime. that the morality (to use Spider's term) is situational. and in the specific situation, presented at the start of this thread, there isn't a "lack of goodness" issue. indeed, while i wouldn't call it a "good" act specifically, i wouldn't call it an evil act. especially in DnD where we have that lovely grey area called "neutrality" in the middle of both.</p><p></p><p>~NegZ</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Negative Zero, post: 839016, member: 3794"] ok, a lil background info; the party has been in this area for a short time, some 4-5 months of game time. and when i say "in this area" i really mean in the neighbouring country. in that time, and country, they've assmased a decent amount of fame and notoriety as "heroes." they've saved a village and a town from destruction on two seperate occasions each, and destroyed a threat to the capital in the form of an insane mage. they're ventured into the sunken island home of a large group of sahuagin, and destryoed the super powerful artifact that they were using to control the weather, and the subequent plan to sink one of said villages. they've also managed to broker an alliance between this human nation, and a large tribe of lizardmen. all of this has afforded them somehting of a legend status in the area. currently, they're in a neighbouring country, who has declared war on the country that we've become heroes in, on a mission to break the connection between the oposing Baron and the real BBEG who's set up shop there. we're in "enemy territory," [i]inside[/i] the main castle, in their capital city, trying to execute a comando style raid on the BBEG's tower. unfortuately this doesn't leave us a whole lot of time to come up with creative ways of dealing with incapacitated opponents. having them arrested and "brough to justice" is pretty much not an option, since the current establishment is the one who hired these guys in the first place. brining him back to his intended victim was a real nice idea, except that we're kinda on the clock ... and we knocked her out with the same sleep poison that we'd used on him (to make it look like we attacked her in case we didn't make it). now lets get something straight, personally i really love our GM's style. and i find he's probably the fairest GM i've ever played with. i don't really think that he's the sort to save an NPC jsut coz he likes him, and that's not what i'm really here to discuss. i just wanted to get other people's ideas on the right and wrongness of the situation. mostly, i agree with green slime. that the morality (to use Spider's term) is situational. and in the specific situation, presented at the start of this thread, there isn't a "lack of goodness" issue. indeed, while i wouldn't call it a "good" act specifically, i wouldn't call it an evil act. especially in DnD where we have that lovely grey area called "neutrality" in the middle of both. ~NegZ [/QUOTE]
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