A question to those who know D&D

[iceyfire]

Would their even be a way of say splitting a character into two. Say for instance good and evil, but in the case of layonara CN.
After laying out the history and lore behind my character, i thought it would be interesting to see what my character would have evolved as if she had taken the other path in her past, the path of sorcery with the dabbling in the necromatic arts.

I would really love to level up a sorc of this kind and just explore my characters darker choices she could have made.
Its a tough question, and i would appreciate any info that could be parted on this subject.

Heck i would even settle for having my character play out this darker side when she falls unconcious on a different character, thats specced that way.

[Falonthas]

in hotu there was a mirror that gave you your alter ego on the evil or good side that came and fought you

[iceyfire]

Interesting, however, i was hoping for some way in which it could work in layonara, i mean i dont think its an advantage or anything its really just trying out a different style of play on a character you enjoy .

[Dorganath]

Well, this gets more into a matter of alignments than anyting.
  I kind of doubt we'd approve a character with multiple/split personality disorder...one that switches between acts of kindness and cruelty, There's a potential for abuse there, and we really want people sticking to their alignments. You can of course request and (upon approval) RP toward an alignment shift, but there won't be a back-and-forth kind of deal.

[mixafix]

you could create a twin of the character, by submitting a separate character and playing that out?

[LynnJuniper]

Switching between acts of kindness and cruelty as long as you don't go too far could be seen as chaotic neutral really, Couldn't it? I mean its not technically a Multiple personality disorder. Besides, its more fun when people -can't- see a valid reason why you're changing your mind all of a sudden. No glowing eyes and changing hair and ZOMG ITS EEEEEVILL!!!111one.

[Chnmmr]

Not to be a drag, but the split personality character has been over done so much on various servers (especially amongst the RDD which almost always seem to be angsty as well.)  I know I'd get tired very quickly if I roleplayed with someone that had a split personality character.

[Honora]

I think Mix has the best suggestion; make a twin, and play out a complex relationship between them.  Perhaps blurring the lines between twins?

If you like that idea, maybe read Jonathon Kellerman's Silent Partner for suggestions, it deals with twins and identity separation.

[Drizzlin]

True Neutral.

Your actions are not done because of good or evil. True neutral gives you a lot of flexability to be kind of good and kind of bad.

[iceyfire]

Fair comments, i will have a think on it *grins* Thank you for your input.
I was actually looking for more of a Split split if you get me, like the mirror deal, except the character split into one that reflect her past choices but the complete opposite of them, say playing 2 characters seperate by their choices but im aware this somewhat of an issue /shrugs.

[Nook]

So, to make this more clear (or to confuse it even more), what you're saying is that, i.e...five years ago I save an old woman from a bear...how would my life be different if, let's say, I fed her and her little dog to the bear.  One of those, if I could only change the past, and poof, it happened but not like you expected...kinda.  If your past actions shape you, expactly how bent would you be if you did the above?

If I'm following the right concept in any way, then you would have to re-think every event after whatever event it was that changed, up until the present.

Anyway, not sure if I caught the right concept.

[Nehetsrev]

Time to numb some brains maybe...

Technicly if we assume that the laws of physics are constant there could not be two versions of the same person coexisting in one timeline (unless you count a clone as being the same person, but technicly a clone is a seperate entity with a different origin and history than it's parent).  This is because if the laws of physics are constant all matter and energy must follow the same precise and predictable patterns of action and reaction.  This includes the electro-chemical reactions of our brains.  Thus choice is simply an illusion we think we have, but in reality everything we think we choose to do could not possibly happen any other way because the physical laws governing the processes of our brains do not allow for it.

Think about it for a while if you like, but don't blame me if your head hurts afterwards because I couldn't help but write what I've written due to those same constant physical laws that govern everything in the universe.  Just as you cannot help but to have read what I've written.

[darkstorme]

Not necessarily true *waves Quantum Physics Licence*.   The laws of physics, while (relatively) immutable, are only predictable on a macroscopic scale (the region in which Newton still reigns supreme.)  And the fact of the matter is, the subatomic has more control over neurochemicals than the macroscopic.  Just as vacuum is not truly empty, subatomic interactions are not predictable.  Quantum effects are as close to truly random as the universe ever comes.  Hawking proved Einstein wrong; God DOES play dice with the universe.. they're just really, really small dice.

Combining Schrodinger's eqn. with Heisenberg and the wave function as applies to electromagnetic waves shows that the behaviour of light is the only predictable subatomic constant - space itself is mutable and in constant flux, if you look closely enough.  Predictability isn't the case.  TIME might be an illusion, but choice is not.