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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 7670875" data-attributes="member: 2067">Part of the issue is that "Good" in D&D isn't meaningful beyond a few basic facts. You can say that someone is "Good" becaue you magic it and you can say that Good people tend to act like X, Y, and Z, and go to That Place when they die, and these are all factual and useful bits of knowledge, but this doesn't translate into there being any particular REASON for an individual to behave that way. A person who knows they are "Evil" knows that they tend to act like X, Y, and Z, and will go to That Other Place when they die, but there's no inherent reason for them to want to change the way they act. Okay, so burning this orphanage down and pinning it on the local gnome population is "Evil." So what? A gnome assassin killed my father and plunged my family into poverty and these orphan's deaths will help me find him and extract vengeance - why should I care if that selfish, hedonic desire for simple bloody revenge will plunge me into the Abyss when I die? If I die and my soul becomes transformed into a demon what does it matter, in a practical sense, if I am "Evil?" It's not going to STOP me form doing what I do, from viewing my own hedonic pleasure as most important to me, even from encouraging EVERYONE to act the way I act. If that makes everyone evil - sure. Whatever. Who cares? It doesn't matter. From my personal perspective as an individual, "Evil" doesn't mean I shouldn't do it, it just means celestials will try and stop me.If someone were to go to Celestia and Detect Good and fail to get a ping, it would mean that the area around them doesn't have traits X, Y, and Z that are defined as Good by the mutliverse (ie, the rulebooks/gygax/crawford, or in PS specifically, a sort of planar consensus).It would probably mean that - for whatever reason - the beings who live there and who make up the plane's matter are no longer doing the right thing by society, helping others, or acting according to conscience. It may mean that the souls who act like that are going somewhere else. It may mean that something is preventing souls from acting like that. It'd be a pretty awesome plot hook in PS. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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