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[Monk321654]

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But bandits? They deserve it.
Pay Evil Unto Evil, as they say.

[Loud Whispers]

But bandits? They deserve it.
Pay Evil Unto Evil, as they say.

So... Thievery =/= Horrible adventurer driven death? Man, I almost feel bad for Kobolds now. Almost.

[Kamin]

But bandits? They deserve it.
Pay Evil Unto Evil, as they say.

So... Thievery =/= Horrible adventurer driven death? Man, I almost feel bad for Kobolds now. Almost.

I have always had a soft spot for bandits. For many, it's just a way to survive in a harsh world/environment. Bandits aren't necessarily murderers--you can't equate the two right off the bat. Bandits, brigands, highwaymen... I think I'd have been a brigand in a different life. I think I have some strange genetic disposition toward it.

(If I survive the fallout after the nukes fall, try not to shoot me on sight; I'm just tryin'a loot all ya valiables!)

[Flying Fortress]

I'm mostly good/nice in DF adventure mode, but pretty much completely good/nice in every other game.  I rarely kill villagers, but when I do its for a good reason, and then I do it by the hundreds as they sleep just to respawn immediately.  I only hurt animals if it's required for things like food and beginning skills. 
Now bandits and outlaws are a completely different story, I'm the equivalent of HFS when I go up against them.  They constantly ambush for me and attempt to kill me.  They shoot at me from the second I'm created and never want to talk peace.  So I see nothing wrong with breaking their shoulders/elbows/wrists/hips/knees/ankles, and then going to bash their skulls in.  Most I kill quickly, but the very last one alive usually gets the above mentioned treatment; as a RP reason it would be so when I told the story I would become more feared by other bandits.   
Everyone plays different, and there is nothing wrong with being nice to everything *cough* elf *cough.*  There's also not too much wrong with being a crazy killer psychopath, so long as you don't act it out in real life lol.

[Eric Blank]

Most of my adventurers play the good guy. Unless you're the bad guy or a wild animal; then the only way to escape your horrible, hellish fate is to put up a good enough fight that it becomes too risky to torture you to death.

I am a pretty evil person, I just try to direct my evil at the evil competition.

[Tastysaurus Rex]

I have no problem going "evil", but I rarely do it in DF because frankly it's just not worth it.

The moment you shove some mud-flopping peasant you make an enemy of everyone in that civ. That means no more quests or respite from the wild until you can make it across the border; which is its own thrill I guess, but I still hate that the hivemind automatically knows that you murdered some dude in a single stroke alone in the confines of his home. If there was more of a risk than an outright penalty I'd probably do it more often.

[GrizzlyAdamz]

Technically, that wasn't the evil path, so long as you did it right.
In saying that, Bioware kind of ruined it by not doing it right in the first place. There should have been an Open Palm/Closed Fist meter as well as a Good/Evil meter, because the whole deal with the CF path was making people look out for themselves, as opposed to just killing them and taking all their stuff.

My interpretation is different.

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Closed fist was focused on your own power. Weakness is an obstacle that should be overcome, and one should only get what one can earn through strength. Like I read somewhere, CF bases itself around one's advancement, beyond one's 'station' even, if one can do so.
Teaching others how to do so would just be a test for the ideology, not the basis of it.
That being said, I also found you had the option to be a thug or a scholar. The scholar wasn't 'good', was just clearer in it's convictions, fairer in their application.
And besides, that game had a different culture, a different cosmic structure, and one could argue that good and evil didn't exist there as they do here.

To be fair, lawful evil =/= CF, but combining reason with cruelty is similar to both.