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ycleption · 09-23-08, 01:35 PM

I'm not expressing any opinion on the incident in question, but just making the comment that "good" and "evil" as alignments are game terms, and they are objectively measured (in other words, the character's perception of their own actions, and motives for acting have nothing to do with it).

It is perfectly possible to do an act that most people would agree is good from an everyday use of the term, but is evil (or at least neutral) in D&D, and vice versa. That's not a contradiction, it's just game mechanics. Call it something other than good and evil if it helps you distinguish.

09-23-08, 01:35 PM	#2
ycleption Character Approver Characters Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Beyond the fields we know. Posts: 1,625 Thanks: 96 Thanked 852 Times in 489 Posts	Re: Refusing to heal the overtly evil is evil? I'm not expressing any opinion on the incident in question, but just making the comment that "good" and "evil" as alignments are game terms, and they are objectively measured (in other words, the character's perception of their own actions, and motives for acting have nothing to do with it). It is perfectly possible to do an act that most people would agree is good from an everyday use of the term, but is evil (or at least neutral) in D&D, and vice versa. That's not a contradiction, it's just game mechanics. Call it something other than good and evil if it helps you distinguish. __________________ ~In the night, my love, tie your heart with mine, and together in dreams they shall defeat the darkness like drums fighting in the forest, against a thick wall of dark leaves. ~Go, ye heroes, go to glory, Though you die in combat go-ory, Ye shall live in song and story. Go to immortality! . . . Go and do your best endeavour, And before all links we sever, We will say farewell for-ever. Go ye heroes go and die, go ye heroes go and diiiiieee!! Last edited by ycleption : 09-23-08 at 01:47 PM. Reason: realized the last line sounded antagonistic.