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<blockquote data-quote="phindar" data-source="post: 3331941" data-attributes="member: 37198"><p>Anyone ever seen the movie Regading Henry? Me either, but I'm familiar with the plot. It's about a man who gets amnesia, has to learn everything all over again, and turns out to be a different person.</p><p></p><p>In D&D terms it would be neat to make a npc (let's say), who is a thoroughly evil SOB. Nature/Nurture, what have you, he's evil and he's been evil his whole life. And let's say that he's evil enough that the pcs (including a paladin) are hunting him down.</p><p></p><p>When they find him, he's living with some farmers helping them tend their fields. It seems in one of his near misses with the king's men, he took a nasty bump on the head and woke up some days later with no memory of who he was. The farmers took him in, showed him some kindness, and now he's just a simple fieldhand with nothing more on his mind than whether or not he should asks his host's daughter to the harvest dance. He doesn't detect as evil, and he'd be horrified to learn what he was, but he's still guilty of many, many crimes. </p><p></p><p>This is similar to the plot of Total Recall, oddly. While I am more on the side of Hyp that alignment is based on current outlook, I think that past experiences play a pretty big part of that (otherwise, alignment would change more). It would be interesting to see how characters dealt with a villain who wasn't the person he used to be, who's past experiences had all been wiped clean.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="phindar, post: 3331941, member: 37198"] Anyone ever seen the movie Regading Henry? Me either, but I'm familiar with the plot. It's about a man who gets amnesia, has to learn everything all over again, and turns out to be a different person. In D&D terms it would be neat to make a npc (let's say), who is a thoroughly evil SOB. Nature/Nurture, what have you, he's evil and he's been evil his whole life. And let's say that he's evil enough that the pcs (including a paladin) are hunting him down. When they find him, he's living with some farmers helping them tend their fields. It seems in one of his near misses with the king's men, he took a nasty bump on the head and woke up some days later with no memory of who he was. The farmers took him in, showed him some kindness, and now he's just a simple fieldhand with nothing more on his mind than whether or not he should asks his host's daughter to the harvest dance. He doesn't detect as evil, and he'd be horrified to learn what he was, but he's still guilty of many, many crimes. This is similar to the plot of Total Recall, oddly. While I am more on the side of Hyp that alignment is based on current outlook, I think that past experiences play a pretty big part of that (otherwise, alignment would change more). It would be interesting to see how characters dealt with a villain who wasn't the person he used to be, who's past experiences had all been wiped clean. [/QUOTE]
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