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Originally Posted by xiaobeibi  Good clerics can certainly have their reasons to perform an "evil" act. They are not paladins, good-evil isn't the only axis here and motivations for the clergy are often complex. Furthermore what is an evil act?
I dare anyone here give a non-empty definition of evil which is neutral with regards to context, time, culture and philosophic standpoint. |
In character, that's really hard, just like in real life situations. Mechanics-wise, it's pretty straight forward, though. The rules governing alignment spell out the difference between Good and Evil; you can look in the D&D rulebooks and see exactly what an Evil act is. By the rules, Good and Evil are pretty much black-and-white, so what is considered Evil is neutral to all context.
It's really a pain in the butt trying to keep objective, capitalized, alignment Good and Evil separate from subjective, lower case, in-character good and evil while thinking about this stuff.
Sorry to continue the tangent. I tried to keep it short.