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flowerboom
post Feb 11 2013, 08:33 PM
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Do you enjoy being evil ? Overall do you enjoy characters being evil or are you just opposed / dont enjoy the idea or playing of it

I love going to the dark side , it gives a lot just like being good does.

Also : do you think there comes a "point of no return" or can any character turn around

Do you think being a vampire makes you "bad" ?

And which people in the game / acts do you consider truely evil?
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post Feb 13 2013, 04:19 PM
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The game is really missing the "unintentionally evil" characters that you get in real life. The dictators who take control to try and create order from the chaos they perceived, or to rescue the people from the previous misguided hero. They think they're doing good, but it doesn't work out that way.

There's plenty of opportunity for that. Mazoga, for example could easily have turned into a major vigilante obsessively hunting down the former members of Mogens Wind-Shifter's gang, or anyone she suspects has a connection. Let her get a suspicion that Count Caro was bankrolling them, and see what happens.

Terentius Regulus could have been that kind of character, trying to rid Bravil of the Skooma trade, but instead persecuting the group he mistakenly thinks is responsible.

That kind of character gives the player choices in how to deal with them. They can simply eliminate them, or they can attempt to redirect them along their original "good" path they strayed from. But choices make for more complicated quests, which is why they probably don't get produced.

The DB quest line could do with a bit more of that ambiguity, too. It starts off well enough, with any friendly fire accident triggering LL's visit, and the first victim being a rapist/murderer who's got away with it, but it was written for the intentionally evil character to find he's unintentionally doing good, instead of the other way round. I think it would have been possible to have it work both ways, with just a little more effort.


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flowerboom   Going to the dark side...   Feb 11 2013, 08:33 PM
Lopov   I usually switch from good to evil... if my curren...   Feb 11 2013, 09:06 PM
mirocu   No. Being evil for the sake of being evil is somet...   Feb 11 2013, 09:10 PM
King Of Beasts   I enjoy being evil when I do decide to torment the...   Feb 11 2013, 09:16 PM
Lady Saga   Do you enjoy being evil ? Overall do you enjoy ch...   Feb 11 2013, 09:18 PM
Darkness Eternal   My characters are usually necromancers or vampires...   Feb 11 2013, 10:04 PM
Lady Saga   Do you consider a lion is evil for stalking a man...   Feb 12 2013, 12:56 AM
Darkness Eternal   I disagree (sorry!) Animals don't have a...   Feb 12 2013, 02:22 AM
Lady Saga   Vampires have to feed just like everything else. ...   Feb 12 2013, 03:14 PM
flowerboom   YES, lady saga is in a lore war! :lol: I do...   Feb 12 2013, 08:30 PM
Lady Saga   I dont have time now but i will read both of your...   Feb 13 2013, 12:24 AM
flowerboom   I dont have time now but i will read both of you...   Feb 13 2013, 03:09 PM
flowerboom   Well i had a character - stacy , and she was so in...   Feb 11 2013, 10:43 PM
Lopov   That's interesting story about Stacy, flowerbo...   Feb 11 2013, 10:48 PM
flowerboom   That's interesting story about Stacy, flowerb...   Feb 11 2013, 10:52 PM
Lopov   Thank you! Nobody hardly ever says that! ...   Feb 11 2013, 10:56 PM
flowerboom   Thank you! Nobody hardly ever says that...   Feb 11 2013, 11:05 PM
mirocu   Sometimes what is evil can be hard to identify. IŽ...   Feb 12 2013, 08:42 PM
flowerboom   Sometimes what is evil can be hard to identify. I...   Feb 13 2013, 03:08 PM
Lady Saga   your suggesting that we get all our meat from hun...   Feb 13 2013, 04:24 PM
mirocu   There is a chance for failure (the animal gets aw...   Feb 13 2013, 04:50 PM
mALX   There is a chance for failure (the animal gets a...   Feb 13 2013, 05:11 PM
flowerboom   Well it seems like everyone is jumping on me , tha...   Feb 13 2013, 05:02 PM
flowerboom   OK no more hunting posts This thread is complet...   Feb 13 2013, 05:17 PM
Destri Melarg   Interesting topic, and a lot of lively discussion....   Feb 13 2013, 09:12 PM
Elisabeth Hollow   Interesting topic, and a lot of lively discussion...   Feb 13 2013, 09:20 PM
SubRosa   I only rarely play characters who are evil. As Des...   Feb 13 2013, 10:27 PM
Destri Melarg   ... in most video games (the KOTOR games especial...   Feb 14 2013, 12:35 AM
mALX   That brings up a question that I would put to th...   Feb 14 2013, 12:39 AM
Darkness Eternal   That brings up a question that I would put to the...   Feb 14 2013, 01:00 AM
SubRosa   Helregin sounds like an interesting character. I...   Feb 14 2013, 01:56 AM
Darkness Eternal   I am not especially fond of terms like good and ...   Feb 14 2013, 07:30 AM
King Coin   That brings up a question that I would put to the...   Feb 14 2013, 05:16 AM
SubRosa   That brings up a question that I would put to th...   Feb 14 2013, 07:02 AM
Elisabeth Hollow   That brings up a question that I would put to the...   Feb 14 2013, 07:05 AM
mirocu   That brings up a question that I would put to the...   Feb 14 2013, 04:54 PM
Grits   I like to play characters who experience conflict ...   Feb 14 2013, 05:09 PM
mALX   I like to play characters who experience conflict...   Feb 14 2013, 08:55 PM
Colonel Mustard   When I think about it, I don't think I've ...   Feb 14 2013, 12:55 PM
Elisabeth Hollow   I enjoy evil characters, in moderation. I identify...   Feb 14 2013, 09:08 PM
Lopov   If I may elaborate a little here since my current ...   Feb 14 2013, 11:49 PM
Darkness Eternal   "The core conflict, the central dichotomy of ...   Jul 24 2013, 07:05 PM
mALX   There's no evil dragon kidnapping the fair m...   Jul 24 2013, 07:27 PM
PhonAntiPhon   Niamh is morally ambiguous, and her motivations ar...   Jul 25 2013, 12:43 AM
Renee Gade IV   [quote name='Darkness Eternal' post='180670' date...   Jul 25 2013, 01:20 PM
mALX   [quote name='mALX' post='180671' date='Jul 24 201...   Jul 26 2013, 04:55 AM
Darkness Eternal   Guys, not lets get off topic here.   Jul 26 2013, 12:39 PM
mALX   Guys, not lets get off topic here. "Huh?...   Jul 26 2013, 10:31 PM
Elisabeth Hollow   Thats what I like about RPGs, mALX. They're no...   Jul 26 2013, 10:33 PM
mALX   Thats what I like about RPGs, mALX. They're n...   Jul 26 2013, 11:07 PM
Renee Gade IV   IMHO, the developers aren't trying to repres...   Jul 27 2013, 12:07 PM
mALX   IMHO, the developers aren't trying to repre...   Jul 29 2013, 12:00 PM


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