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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LeStryfe79" data-source="post: 5442432" data-attributes="member: 71820">Back in February of 2005, my friends and I agreed to play an evil aligned campaign using 3.5 rules. Our long standing DM was very passionate about the project and spent many a day crafting a robust world with interesting races and politics. He is an attorney and huge science fiction buff, so, needless to say, his attention to detail was great indeed. I had personally had a couple of problems while playing evil, so I was allowed to make a short-tempered Chaotic Neutral character instead.  The game itself was filled with a wide array of foul and unsavory misdeeds which came in the form of sinister quest lines secretly given to us by the various NPCs who held power over the world. In time, the levels of intrigue we achieved reached unfathomable heights. While exploring the pseudo-scientific origins of the planet and its denizens, we discovered even more profound mysteries about our own character's psyches and motivations. On the surface, we carried out assassinations, theft, betrayal, and a myriad of other heinous acts. However, on a deeper level, we were playing the best campaign of our lives. The fun times and sense of wonderment was short lived however(about 2 months), when I decided that one of the quests we were given was simply too immoral for me to carry out.  Child Murder. Yes, that's right! We were actually given a quest which involved us killing a whole temple full of helpless children. Now, to be fair, there was no railroading to found with this DM. He ALWAYS ran sandboxes, and so, for better or worse this quest was optional. I would like to point out, however, that the rewards for completing the quest were too great to ignore. In many ways, I felt cheated because I was playing the only character who wasn't entirely evil. Luckily for me we had to call it a night, so I was able to remove myself from the adventure without causing a scene.  A month later, Star Wars ep3 came out, and I got to see Darth Vader murdering a bunch of helpless children in a temple during his fall from grace. The film was rated PG13. Wow, I didn't see that coming. I felt like a complete moron for missing out on a golden opportunity to further deepen a great character while playing an amazing game with my friends. I will never forget that lesson. As a funny side-note to this story, I would like to add something. Since that game, all of the other players at the table have gotten happily married with children to call their own. <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=":)" /> One man's trash loot is another man's Holy Avenger.</blockquote>

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