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2020-07-10, 10:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: So, do you feel a little sorry for Redcloak now?
Especially for this one
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Mage avatar by smutmulch & linklele.
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2020-07-10, 10:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: So, do you feel a little sorry for Redcloak now?
Except the vampires in Twilight. And Vampire Diaries. And any vampire that isn't Spike. (Or maybe Angel, but only on his own series.) They should be killed on sight. They cause way more drama than they're worth. Safest to just stake 'em first thing and get it over with.
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2020-07-10, 10:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: So, do you feel a little sorry for Redcloak now?
You're assuming the original owner is truly a hostage in all cases too.
Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2020-07-10, 11:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: So, do you feel a little sorry for Redcloak now?
Hey, let people enjoy what they enjoy.
Wether or not one enjoy the situation has no bearing on wether or not one is a prisoner. It’s true that they aren’t hostages, though, the vampires have no intention of releasing their hosts in exchange for concessions.Forum Wisdom
Mage avatar by smutmulch & linklele.
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2020-07-10, 11:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2012
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Re: So, do you feel a little sorry for Redcloak now?
I’m always curious about what afterlife that vampire’s host would go to. If you’re Neutral-to-Good your whole life (not because you really want to be, but because you’re supposed to be), and then, after being killed and having minimal-to-no capacity to influence the vampiric spirit in your body, you passively enjoy its actions...what would that mean for alignment? Would enjoying Evil activities that you have no capacity to prevent shift the dial?
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2020-07-10, 11:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: So, do you feel a little sorry for Redcloak now?
I'm reminded of Paarthurnax from Skyrim who asks you whether it's more moral to be an innately good person to whom altruism comes naturally, or to be born with strong selfish traits but to overcome those in the pursuit of good.
I'd guess that for Ponchina's host she'd still be considered Good in the end, although maybe not if she'd had the opportunity to help her vampire commit atrocities with suggestions and ideas.
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2020-07-10, 12:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: So, do you feel a little sorry for Redcloak now?
Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
Second known member of the Greyview Appreciation Society
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2020-07-10, 12:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2007
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Re: So, do you feel a little sorry for Redcloak now?
It'd be the same as establishing any hard restriction: you would do so when your story's core question is about something derived from it, and the story would be undercut if that question was invalidated.
From the external "are the people you knew who are now a constant danger to those around them, still 'the people you knew'?", to the internal "how much is defiance of your nature worth in the cost to others?", to the expansive "if the chances of resistance change from 'impossible' to 'nigh impossible', are the world's adaptions now worse than the thing they were intended to prevent?", to the subversive "what if the truth might not be as true as expected?"; there are all sorts of questions that (depending on how the story is intended to answer them) could benefit from at least starting from a point of objective truth.FeytouchedBanana eldritch disciple avatar by...me!
The Index of the Giant's Comments VI―Making Dogma from Zapped Bananas
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2020-07-10, 12:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: So, do you feel a little sorry for Redcloak now?
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2020-07-10, 03:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: So, do you feel a little sorry for Redcloak now?
As I've mentioned before, it might be possible to free the soul fro ma vampire in a way other than killing them. Researching how to do that being a thing a good vampire might pursue. Once you establish souls can be affected by magic, then you open the door to different magic affecting them in different ways.
For a hypothetical being that has a physiological need to kill sapient beings, specifically, I'm having trouble imagining that. It would have to be an intrinsic part of them that can't be overcome in any way, not even changing them into a different form. And their diet would have to be intrinsically impossible to get anywhere else, or if you did get it anywhere else it would have to be effectively morally the same, such as needing to eat the soul itself.Last edited by RatElemental; 2020-07-10 at 03:21 PM.
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2020-07-10, 04:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: So, do you feel a little sorry for Redcloak now?
Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2020-07-10, 06:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2007
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Re: So, do you feel a little sorry for Redcloak now?
How has the thread gone on this long without anyone pointing out that Durkon has spoken to Thor before his death?
Wolfen Houndog - The World in Revolt (4e)
The Mythic Warrior, a 3.5 base class that severs limbs and sunders armor
The Nameless One, converted to 3.5 and 5e
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2020-07-10, 08:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: So, do you feel a little sorry for Redcloak now?
Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2020-07-11, 05:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: So, do you feel a little sorry for Redcloak now?
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Mage avatar by smutmulch & linklele.
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2020-07-18, 01:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2019