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Originally posted by VonDondu
IMO, a character who is truly Good would never allow Bodhi into his or her party even if she were willing to join forces, and that's a good reason not to allow such an option. By the same token, Balthazar would not join forces with a character whose soul does not possess some innate goodness, so it's not an option. It's as simple as that.  |
With respect, I don't see it as quite that simple. "Good" and "evil" are not capable of being reduced to such quick abstractions. A significant part of Christianity, for instance, holds that devils are a test of their God--so that evil is in the service of good, tempering the soul. (And no, I'm not Christian, or even monotheistic, but it's an accurate summation.) Nations fighting wars on the "right" side have often made use of very violent, uncontrollable men, who would be locked away during peacetime. My point is that sometimes, your traveling fellows on the road through life must be chosen from among those who can get to a specific place, rather than those who carry the right union cards.
Of course, what I've just written isn't laid in stone, either. I'm merely indicating the breadth of spectrum in interaction between forces that are supposedly good and supposedly evil. We won't even go into what defines evil and good, or how cardboard-simplistic Gary Gygax' tyrannical good/neutral/evil and lawful/neutral/chaotic are.
