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Offline Caswallon

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Re: Grave Robbing
« Reply #100 on: July 16, 2004, 04:42:24 AM »
"Take from the rich and give to the poor."
Rich = bad? ;D

I hate starting a new page with a post like that. :-\
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Re: Grave Robbing
« Reply #101 on: July 16, 2004, 04:51:47 AM »
"Take from the rich and give to the poor."
Rich = bad? ;D

I hate starting a new page with a post like that. :-\

Especially as "rich" pickpocket targets in BG2 are generally merchants, and you never give more than a few gold to the poor unless you count buying up your rep at the temples. It's more a case of "Take from the middle class and keep it."

Not that I'm looking to turn this into a politics thread . . .

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Re: Grave Robbing
« Reply #102 on: July 16, 2004, 08:30:39 AM »
Pickpocketing the guards who IIRC sometimes just carry useless gems, but sometimes scrolls they can't use, is not that bad. He probably got it at his turn at the City Gates anyway. :D Giving to the poor doesn't pay off virtue-wise. It is just market mechanics at work. ;)
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Re: Grave Robbing
« Reply #103 on: July 16, 2004, 09:06:15 AM »
Pickpocketing the guards who IIRC sometimes just carry useless gems, but sometimes scrolls they can't use, is not that bad. He probably got it at his turn at the City Gates anyway. :D Giving to the poor doesn't pay off virtue-wise. It is just market mechanics at work. ;)

I wrote a fan-fic explaining those scrolls . . .

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« Last Edit: July 16, 2004, 09:09:54 AM by BobTokyo »

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Re: Grave Robbing
« Reply #104 on: July 16, 2004, 09:31:38 AM »
"Take from the rich and give to the poor."
Rich = bad? ;D
rich + greed = bad
rich + charity = good

greed + charity = parse error

rich2 + greed 2 = politician
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Re: Grave Robbing
« Reply #105 on: July 17, 2004, 10:26:58 AM »
"Take from the rich and give to the poor."
Rich = bad? ;D
rich + greed = bad
rich + charity = good

greed + charity = parse error

rich2 + greed 2 = politician

I'd have to say it equals a capitalistic politician.  A Socialist or Buddhist or Ascetic (even though ascetic politicians can't really exist) politician would certainly not be.
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Re: Grave Robbing
« Reply #106 on: July 17, 2004, 01:31:27 PM »
Please to be talking about grave robbing, not real world politics.
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