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[sigmaleph]

so I'm playing pathfinder: kingmaker and run across this conversational option:

[a dialog option labelled Lawful Good: "We'll end both you and your hideous kingdom, monster!"]

and i'm like, ok, what the fuck is the Chaotic Evil option, then?

And then I remember this sounds awfully familiar and, oops (same dungeon, different conversation).

Comments

[wingedcatgirl]

I have some concerns about the kind of person who would design their game's karma meter like that.

... Also I looked it up on tvtropes and now I have more concerns.

[feotakahari]

There are a lot of points in this game where you can either massacre an entire tribe or let them live, and I always went for the non-genocidal option. In the ending slides, I got all sorts of slides about how this group or that group went right back to robbing and murdering my citizens. Was I supposed to slaughter everyone in my path?

[lyssabn]

tbf isn't this just D&D (& consequently Pathfinder as well) in general?

[sigmaleph]

i mean, if it was, I wouldn't know

[(Anonymous)]

In D&D, trolls are "usually chaotic evil." If you have a random encounter with a band of trolls, they're probably bad guys, but there's plenty of wiggle room and it wouldn't be strange for the GM to introduce a good-hearted troll who abandoned his people's violent ways, or trolls that have complicated grey-area reasons for attacking humans. They're free-willed humanoids like anyone else.

("Always [alignment]" is something you mainly see for outsiders or other supernatural creatures - they're born that way, and unless you're doing a "fallen angel" storyline or similar, they're not going to change.)

"Paladin goes detect-smite" is a bit of a D&D meme, but nothing says that good guys have to exterminate all potentially-evil creatures on sight.