NephandiMan
2008-01-19, 05:00 AM
My most recent D&D group decided they wanted to play an evil campaign - I say "they" because I'm pretty much TN in real life, and didn't much care one way or the other. I figured it would be new and different, at least, and I made a cleric because no one else in the group wanted to be one. (I'll show them how badly clerics rip. That might change their minds). Our group already has plenty of damage dealing, so I figured spontaneous healing would be more useful than spontaneous inflicting. Then, because I would have a hard time justifying a Good character in a party with only one other non-Evil member, I chose a TN cleric who channels positive energy. My patron deity is Olidammara, the CN god of rogues.
Here's where it gets interesting. I and our party's druid had just finished giving the opening speeches at a huge winter festival, when one of the city guards was killed by a crossbow bolt. The druid, our sorcerer, our dwarven fighter, and I tracked the assassin back to his hideout, subdued him, and brought him back to the city guards to deal with. The sorceror decided it would be a great idea to summon a giant ape in a room full of the city guards. In the largest metropolis on the planet. (He's not the sharpest bulb in the anthill). Our druid, the aforementioned only other non-Evil member of the party, called lightning on him, and he, being a sorceror, went down in two rounds.
I now had a dilemma: I wanted the sorcerer alive so I could at least ask him what the blue hell he was thinking, so I hung back from combat, buffed myself just in case, and healed the sorcerer when he collapsed. However, in the heat of battle, I doubted the guards would distinguish between the sorcerer and someone who helped him, so I finally joined the fray after a few guards had already gone down, and once the druid dipped below zero HP, the rest of the party made short work of the guards. (The druid was only knocked out, not killed, and I only attacked guards after he went down. I healed him after the battle, and as far as he knows, all I did the whole time was heal people, so he won't necessarily turn on me).
My dilemma is this: what can I do to help make up for killing civil servants so that I don't become Evil? I don't care if I become Chaotic, but I'm trying to avoid Evil for a number of reasons, a major one of which is the spontaneous healing power. I'm thinking I could anonymously donate my share of the loot from the bodies to the families of the slain guardsmen - they had some good equipment, so the proceeds ought to set their families up for a few generations, if they know how to manage money. If any of them don't have families, I could just make an anonymous donation directly to the city, to use as they see fit.
I'm not interested in getting lectured here. For that matter, I'm not even really interested in starting an argument over whether what I did was evil or not. I don't plan to make a habit of killing guards, or anyone else who doesn't attack me first. What I want is a legitimate plan for balancing out my arguably evil actions so I don't become Evil myself. Also, does anyone have any ideas for how to get out of this without getting myself arrested? I'm thinking we can turn one or two of the party members in, then break them out of jail later on - it'll definitely help stave suspicion off from the rest of us if we have a patsy to pin things on. Staying Neutral won't matter much if I'm languishing in prison or executed for killing guards.
Here's where it gets interesting. I and our party's druid had just finished giving the opening speeches at a huge winter festival, when one of the city guards was killed by a crossbow bolt. The druid, our sorcerer, our dwarven fighter, and I tracked the assassin back to his hideout, subdued him, and brought him back to the city guards to deal with. The sorceror decided it would be a great idea to summon a giant ape in a room full of the city guards. In the largest metropolis on the planet. (He's not the sharpest bulb in the anthill). Our druid, the aforementioned only other non-Evil member of the party, called lightning on him, and he, being a sorceror, went down in two rounds.
I now had a dilemma: I wanted the sorcerer alive so I could at least ask him what the blue hell he was thinking, so I hung back from combat, buffed myself just in case, and healed the sorcerer when he collapsed. However, in the heat of battle, I doubted the guards would distinguish between the sorcerer and someone who helped him, so I finally joined the fray after a few guards had already gone down, and once the druid dipped below zero HP, the rest of the party made short work of the guards. (The druid was only knocked out, not killed, and I only attacked guards after he went down. I healed him after the battle, and as far as he knows, all I did the whole time was heal people, so he won't necessarily turn on me).
My dilemma is this: what can I do to help make up for killing civil servants so that I don't become Evil? I don't care if I become Chaotic, but I'm trying to avoid Evil for a number of reasons, a major one of which is the spontaneous healing power. I'm thinking I could anonymously donate my share of the loot from the bodies to the families of the slain guardsmen - they had some good equipment, so the proceeds ought to set their families up for a few generations, if they know how to manage money. If any of them don't have families, I could just make an anonymous donation directly to the city, to use as they see fit.
I'm not interested in getting lectured here. For that matter, I'm not even really interested in starting an argument over whether what I did was evil or not. I don't plan to make a habit of killing guards, or anyone else who doesn't attack me first. What I want is a legitimate plan for balancing out my arguably evil actions so I don't become Evil myself. Also, does anyone have any ideas for how to get out of this without getting myself arrested? I'm thinking we can turn one or two of the party members in, then break them out of jail later on - it'll definitely help stave suspicion off from the rest of us if we have a patsy to pin things on. Staying Neutral won't matter much if I'm languishing in prison or executed for killing guards.