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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Cashel" data-source="post: 1908243" data-attributes="member: 321">So it doesn't matter what he does...it's just the reason for doing it that's important? Plus being able to come up with the correct reason (i.e. the one the DM is fishing for)?Don't you think it's kind of chaotic to go running off after some elementals when the rest of the party isn't coming along for the fight? Isn't it good to want to wipe out a pair of possibly dangerous elementals? And what could the player's desires (&quot;to kill them&quot;) possibly have to do with the character's in-game rationale?I would save forced alignment shifts for situations where the PC's actions affect something more than a neutral-aligned, low-intelligence force of nature that's happier to get back to their elemental plane than they are to rampage in the prime material.&quot;Why are you chasing those elementals?&quot;&quot;Because I want to kill them.&quot;True, it's not the paragon of chaotic good, but it's not necessarily anything else.&quot;Why are you chasing those schoolchildren?&quot;&quot;Because they said hello to me, and I want to kill them.&quot;NOT chaotic good, or any kind of good.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tom Cashel, post: 1908243, member: 321"] So it doesn't matter what he does...it's just the [I]reason[/I] for doing it that's important? Plus being able to come up with the correct reason (i.e. the one the DM is fishing for)? Don't you think it's kind of chaotic to go running off after some elementals when the rest of the party isn't coming along for the fight? Isn't it good to want to wipe out a pair of possibly dangerous elementals? And what could the [B]player[/B]'s desires ("to kill them") possibly have to do with the [B]character[/B]'s in-game rationale? I would save forced alignment shifts for situations where the PC's actions affect something more than a neutral-aligned, low-intelligence force of nature that's happier to get back to their elemental plane than they are to rampage in the prime material. "Why are you chasing those elementals?" "Because I want to [I]kill[/I] them." True, it's not the paragon of chaotic good, but it's not necessarily anything else. "Why are you chasing those schoolchildren?" "Because they said hello to me, and I want to [I]kill[/I] them." NOT chaotic good, or any kind of good. [/QUOTE]

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