New Posts For Thread: The Nature of Evilhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19573502/The_Nature_of_EvilTo me, too many games have stereotypical villains. A knight in black armor decorated with skull motives. A black robed wizard with a staff with a human skull on it. YAWN. The typical villain sacrifices babies and tortures/mutilates the innocent and iI'm a firm believer that Evil PC's can be interspersed into a general Good or Neutral campaign. If memory serves me correctly, Gilles De Rais was friends with Joan D'Arc. She would be considered a Holy Paladin whereas Gilles would be considered a Blahttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19573502/The_Nature_of_Evil?post_id=332716994#332716994I'm a firm believer that Evil PC's can be interspersed into a general Good or Neutral campaign. If memory serves me correctly, Gilles De Rais was friends with Joan D'Arc. She would be considered a Holy Paladin whereas Gilles would be considered a BlaFri, 30 May 2008 19:20:04 -0500I think one thing has been overlooked far too much in this thread, and that is the fact that good and evil are able to be detected, sense, measured and are even physical forces like gravity or chemistry. Simply with the spells Detect Evil/Good/Law/Chhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19573502/The_Nature_of_Evil?post_id=332716986#332716986I think one thing has been overlooked far too much in this thread, and that is the fact that good and evil are able to be detected, sense, measured and are even physical forces like gravity or chemistry. Simply with the spells Detect Evil/Good/Law/ChMon, 25 Feb 2008 17:44:23 -0600The line and definition between the alignments are subjective. That's an argument that's getting as tired as the OP's stereotyped villians. Some will argue they're defined in the game, but they're defined by descriptions which are up for interpretatihttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19573502/The_Nature_of_Evil?post_id=332716982#332716982The line and definition between the alignments are subjective. That's an argument that's getting as tired as the OP's stereotyped villians. Some will argue they're defined in the game, but they're defined by descriptions which are up for interpretatiMon, 18 Feb 2008 03:35:49 -0600One villain I had was quite intriguing: he was motivated by love. In his day, he was a mighty paladin and a stalwart crusader for the forces of good. The world was a far better place because he existed.And above all others, he loved his family andhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19573502/The_Nature_of_Evil?post_id=332716958#332716958One villain I had was quite intriguing: he was motivated by love. In his day, he was a mighty paladin and a stalwart crusader for the forces of good. The world was a far better place because he existed.And above all others, he loved his family andWed, 16 Jan 2008 00:16:05 -0600Well, obviously if there is a collective of thieves with no sapient being to steal from, then this is a contradiction, because the collective itself is made up of sapient biengs, without biengs outside of the collective to rob, the collective then brhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19573502/The_Nature_of_Evil?post_id=332716954#332716954Well, obviously if there is a collective of thieves with no sapient being to steal from, then this is a contradiction, because the collective itself is made up of sapient biengs, without biengs outside of the collective to rob, the collective then brTue, 15 Jan 2008 15:35:37 -0600