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<blockquote data-quote="Storyteller01" data-source="post: 3136340" data-attributes="member: 20931">But alignment (at least good and evil) is a conscious decision. What's to keep a paladin from seeing a blackguard in action, say 'I want that!' and convert on the spot? They take a level in rogue, then to blackguard. Regardless, he didn't slowly change, he made a conscious decision and followed through with it.Let's use a story in in MPG's Quintessential Drow as an example. (Paraphrased) A drow woman is fighting a human paladin. She regals him with the failures of his church and how evil cannot be destroyed. She leaves him in a heap on the floor crying and cursing his church.What prevents him from converting right then and there? If he already has a darkened soul (as others have put it earlier), why does he suddenly have to prove it? Besides being a DM'ed house rule, why does he have to slowly work it into character?And when does that happen? When in the rules does he prove this? Especially if it's already stated that alignment is a state of mind (conscious decision) or an attitude of the player, but doesn't say that it's the culmination of a persons past.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storyteller01, post: 3136340, member: 20931"] But alignment (at least good and evil) is a conscious decision. What's to keep a paladin from seeing a blackguard in action, say 'I want that!' and convert on the spot? They take a level in rogue, then to blackguard. Regardless, he didn't slowly change, he made a conscious decision and followed through with it. Let's use a story in in MPG's Quintessential Drow as an example. (Paraphrased) A drow woman is fighting a human paladin. She regals him with the failures of his church and how evil cannot be destroyed. She leaves him in a heap on the floor crying and cursing his church. What prevents him from converting right then and there? If he already has a darkened soul (as others have put it earlier), why does he suddenly have to prove it? Besides being a DM'ed house rule, why does he have to slowly work it into character? And when does that happen? When in the rules does he prove this? Especially if it's already stated that alignment is a state of mind (conscious decision) or an attitude of the player, but doesn't say that it's the culmination of a persons past. [/QUOTE]

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