DragonShadow
First Post
New campaign character is a Neutral Good Rogue with ranks in Sleight of Hand, Bluff, and all of the Roguey skills that make Rogues known as Thieves. Since he is, in fact, a thief, he uses his SoH to steal things when he has the opportunity (which is great when there's a Paladin in the party).
Alright, that's the first thing.
The second thing; the first session had the party going into the sewers, and to make a long story short, we found a corpse with special items on it. I had dibs on the bracers he was wearing, and when I tried to put them on, I passed out (failed save). When I came to, after the rest of the party removed the bracers and woke me up, I immediately put them back on. Somewhat counter-intuitive, maybe, but we're opperating under the premise that anything strong enough to knock you out just by wearing it is worth a lot and has to be good. (Which is why I was also dragging along a mace that was trying to level drain anybody that picked it up.) The problem with this? The other party members not only stopped me, but took the bracers and wouldn't give them back/let me know where they were.
Third thing; back in the sewers, the party comes across an alcove where a female druidess is hanging out. She apparantly lives there. I was talking to her at the time, and then the Paladin steps up and Detects Evil, and she is. So, now we're in combat, but I was still trying to talk to the woman, and she hadn't done anything to us to deserve being attacked. The party attacked, I readied my bow and waited until she actually did something to me to jump in. My PC's brother was disabled and groggy, I tossed a potion at him (not really caring whether he would catch it, or if it actually hit him and knocked him out. The potion was both stolen, and regardless of his being my brother, he had no business being there.) He withdrew from combat the next round, and to shorten the rest of the story the rest of the party nearly died but the Druidess ran away. When she ran past me (I never entered combat) I did take one shot at her, because she spooked me running right past like that.
So now you tell me your opinion: Am I -not- Neutral Good for these things? Here are my arguements as to why I am.
1- I am not lawful, but neither am I truly chaotic. I might lean more towards chaos than law, but that's a thing about being neutral. There is, to be cliche, a method to my madness...but not enough to make me lawful.
2- Stealing is not an evil act. I don't steal bread from hungry babies, I steal gold from people I run into, or items from a shop that I can't afford. So far, all I've taken was healing potions that the party couldn't afford to pay for.
3- I am not Neutral (on the axis of good/evil) because I will not do anything that is EVIL. It may not be "right" or altruistic, but it's still not evil.
So, you tell me what you think. I'm curious as to what EN-Worlders would say.
Alright, that's the first thing.
The second thing; the first session had the party going into the sewers, and to make a long story short, we found a corpse with special items on it. I had dibs on the bracers he was wearing, and when I tried to put them on, I passed out (failed save). When I came to, after the rest of the party removed the bracers and woke me up, I immediately put them back on. Somewhat counter-intuitive, maybe, but we're opperating under the premise that anything strong enough to knock you out just by wearing it is worth a lot and has to be good. (Which is why I was also dragging along a mace that was trying to level drain anybody that picked it up.) The problem with this? The other party members not only stopped me, but took the bracers and wouldn't give them back/let me know where they were.
Third thing; back in the sewers, the party comes across an alcove where a female druidess is hanging out. She apparantly lives there. I was talking to her at the time, and then the Paladin steps up and Detects Evil, and she is. So, now we're in combat, but I was still trying to talk to the woman, and she hadn't done anything to us to deserve being attacked. The party attacked, I readied my bow and waited until she actually did something to me to jump in. My PC's brother was disabled and groggy, I tossed a potion at him (not really caring whether he would catch it, or if it actually hit him and knocked him out. The potion was both stolen, and regardless of his being my brother, he had no business being there.) He withdrew from combat the next round, and to shorten the rest of the story the rest of the party nearly died but the Druidess ran away. When she ran past me (I never entered combat) I did take one shot at her, because she spooked me running right past like that.
So now you tell me your opinion: Am I -not- Neutral Good for these things? Here are my arguements as to why I am.
1- I am not lawful, but neither am I truly chaotic. I might lean more towards chaos than law, but that's a thing about being neutral. There is, to be cliche, a method to my madness...but not enough to make me lawful.
2- Stealing is not an evil act. I don't steal bread from hungry babies, I steal gold from people I run into, or items from a shop that I can't afford. So far, all I've taken was healing potions that the party couldn't afford to pay for.
3- I am not Neutral (on the axis of good/evil) because I will not do anything that is EVIL. It may not be "right" or altruistic, but it's still not evil.
So, you tell me what you think. I'm curious as to what EN-Worlders would say.
