Posted by: Kish
« on: May 26, 2004, 12:34:59 AM »Okay.
I don't know if there are any Realms deities who forbid sex outside of marriage--we're not talking Christianity here.
But they will still know quite a bit more about the party than most people, won't they?Not really. Gods would respond to Virtue rather than Reputation, since they see all that the party does, and why they do it.
The gods of Faerun are not omniscient.
Not really. Gods would respond to Virtue rather than Reputation, since they see all that the party does, and why they do it.
Perhaps, but expectations are about Reputation, not Virtue.Not really. Gods would respond to Virtue rather than Reputation, since they see all that the party does, and why they do it.
It's not more virtuous to hurt someone if you're already a creep, and it's not less virtuous to save someone if you're good. Even with reputation, an evil person's bad act may be the "last straw", while a good person's evil act is more likely to be forgiven as one mistake.But that evil act by the good person will have a larger impact on his reputation anyway, since his record is no longer spotless. I may be as heroic as I want, but if I cut down a peasant in the middle of Athkatla, people won't really like me as much as they would have if I hadn't. On the other hand, if people dispise me anyway, one murder won't change matters much. They always expected me to be capable of it, so me actually doing it will result in a far lesser reputation drop.
Admitting you cheated may actually hurt the person you cheated on more than hiding it from them. So how can you judge, in this situation, what is morally right for someone else?Again, there's really no question of admitting it or hiding it--none of your dialogue options attempt to deny that you slept with Phaere, if you did.
And how can you think that cheating on someone is morally equivalent to, say, leaving Jaheira to die?I don't think anyone would argue that.