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Mordaedil posted:It varies on edition, but I like the phrasing I read in the 2nd AD&D book: Evil is all about intent. A guy just performed murder in cold blood? He strikes as a mild evil. An evil aligned fighter sits at a bar and drinks a few brews? He doesn't show up as evil to the paladin looking for him. A priest who has been sacrificing innocent villagers in his spare time and is just performing a sermon for the elderly? He strikes as a pretty foul source of evil because his actions are heavily tainted and lingers around him for a longer duration. And it gets some people really annoyed because it's a mechanical abstraction of cliche fantasy characterization. Like how Sauron was so palpably evil, you could feel his presence. Early D&D writers wanted a mechanic to encapsulate that feeling, and it has stuck around since then.
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rope kid posted:No one actually knows for certain that godlike are created by divine intervention. Their appearances suggest strong alignment with certain deities -- e.g. there are godlike who exhibit physical properties associating them with the moon and water, which are both aspects of Ondra -- but there is no direct proof or divine confirmation. Cut it out. You know. Just because the people in the world don't know doesn't mean you don't know(in your heart). Rope kid lied, godlike died.
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lordfrikk posted:€63.99 That'll teach you to not back on kickstarter. You could've gotten it for 25% of that.
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Basic Chunnel posted:I think we may have to face the possibility that PoE will ship containing mechanics that can be laboriously exploited 2 pages back, but I really want to say: how can you have a spiritual successor to BGII any other way?
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