Posted by: Murdane
« on: January 15, 2005, 06:08:03 PM »Gont wasn't a madman though, just a bit disoriented when you first free him. The madmen that you end up freeing you have to kill anyway, because they attack you.
Just regarding a little that topic, keeping the Blade should incur a virtue hit, because:You've got nothing but their word that Saemon stole it from them. For all you know, he could've got it from its rightful owner and the Githyanki could just be thieves.Considering what you know of Saemon and the person whom he says gave it to him (Bodhi), a party of nobodies would be paragons of truth in comparison. Unless, of course, you've taken the ship from Spellhold and you know what Githyanki do.
Question: Do you even get the Blade at all if you take the portal? It's been so long since I've gone that route that I forget.
I just freed Gont of Riativin from the imprisonment orb thing in the Underdark, and let him go without a fight. If there's a virtue hit for killing him, why not a virtue gain for sparing him?
I'd also like to propose that killing any innocent person would incur the same penalty, whether that be Joe Schmoe commoner, Drizzt T. Heroman, or an ungrateful jerk you meet in a big cave.
I'd also like to propose that killing any innocent person would incur the same penalty, whether that be Joe Schmoe commoner, Drizzt T. Heroman, or an ungrateful jerk you meet in a big cave.
Justice is just one of many virtues, and it seems to me that it is *lawful* good characters who would place the highest premium on it. I could easily imagine a CG character balancing it against compassion, support for liberty, mercy, etc., and finding it less important.
It's true that the Githyanki are evil, but what I've mentioned in many of my posts (and what Ghreyfain also mentioned in this very thread) is the idea that a virtuous person will, within reason, treat other creatures as justly as possible even though they are "evil" or "don't deserve it".
You've got nothing but their word that Saemon stole it from them. For all you know, he could've got it from its rightful owner and the Githyanki could just be thieves.Considering what you know of Saemon and the person whom he says gave it to him (Bodhi), a party of nobodies would be paragons of truth in comparison. Unless, of course, you've taken the ship from Spellhold and you know what Githyanki do.