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2011-03-22, 01:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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A troubling arc
So here is the arc of the PCs in the Castles & Crusades game I'm in.
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Can anyone see a problem?Last edited by Another_Poet; 2011-03-22 at 02:46 PM.
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2011-03-22, 02:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A troubling arc
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2011-03-23, 09:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A troubling arc
OOC, this certainly sounds like it will become decreasingly fun for player of the good cleric, and for any other players who are introducing evil characters less out of desire than to simply fit in.
The 'good' news is that most campaigns that go that far into depravity almost inevitably end up in PC disunity - since there are fewer motivational levers that work on such characters to force them to work together - and the campaign screeches to a halt. Hit the reset button.
Which is, I suppose, pretty much what Guard Juris said."We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." Kurt Vonnegut
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2011-03-23, 10:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A troubling arc
Yeah. I am considering suggesting to the group that we make new characters, and ask the GM to use our old ones as villains in our introductory session.
That said, so far everyone is having fun at it - there don't seem to be any hard feelings. But I feel unsettled after some Hitler-like comments from one of the characters at the last session.
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2011-03-23, 10:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A troubling arc
Assuming you have enough credit with the group that they're willing to go along with this, they've handed you a powerful motivation for a new group:
You announce that the PCs have become the most significant villains in the area, and you're activating the Party Gone Bad Contingency Plan. Roll up a new party, go on their first simple adventure. When they return to their home base afterward, reveal that their home village has been massacred and everyone there was sacrificed to a Soul Furnace by deceitful mass-murderers.
Let them see things from the other side and try to become powerful enough to bring the psychopaths who murdered their families to justice.
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2011-03-23, 10:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A troubling arc
I just published my first novella, Lúnasa Days, a modern fantasy with a subtle, uncertain magic.
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2011-03-23, 10:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-03-23, 10:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A troubling arc
Am I the only one confused about the chart?
Also, you could always have a messenger from a good god come down and offer redemption if you wish to stick with current party.
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2011-03-23, 12:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Two questions:
First: Did the players really want to play good characters? I'd be surprised if you aren't the good cleric and the rest of the party has been trying to go evil.
Second: It also looks like "roleplaying = playing your alignment" is part of the rules here. Maybe thats just Castles and Crusades (it seemed to be the rule of AD&D), but it seems to be one of the stupidest parts about alignment. As far as know, Vaarsuvius is not required to "act evil" even if hir alignment dropped below some critical line.
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2011-03-23, 12:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A troubling arc
I actually was in a group of supposedly good PCs (there even was a Paladin!) who killed an innocent via a "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality. They then proceeded to kidnap and imprison the man's brother, on the off-chance he might have wanted to take revenge on them. (the brother didn't do anything wrong, his only sin was being the victim's brother)
The Paladin didn't fall.
Needless to say, I ran from this group as fast as I could.
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2011-03-23, 01:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Two questions:
I'm actually not the good cleric. I was a neutral Illusionist till he died, then I rolled up a half-ilithid (GM allowed it as a custom thing because of the unusual place we were in at the time). I had intended to play him Neutral as well, but once the rest of the party got even eviller I thought, "Well, I can't imagine a mindflayer runt being the voice of Justice," so I went with it.
Second: It also looks like "roleplaying = playing your alignment" is part of the rules here. Maybe thats just Castles and Crusades (it seemed to be the rule of AD&D), but it seems to be one of the stupidest parts about alignment. As far as know, Vaarsuvius is not required to "act evil" even if hir alignment dropped below some critical line.
Honestly it's been fascinating to watch, it wasn't till the last session I started to get worried.I just published my first novella, Lúnasa Days, a modern fantasy with a subtle, uncertain magic.
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2011-03-24, 06:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: A troubling arc
So basically, you're getting worried because some character in a (quite very) evil group is starting to be really Hitler-style evil? What's the problem with that?
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2011-03-24, 07:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-03-24, 09:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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I just published my first novella, Lúnasa Days, a modern fantasy with a subtle, uncertain magic.
You can grab it on Kindle or paperback.
Proud to GM two Warhammer Adventures:
Plays as Ulrich, Student of Law