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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I hate these filthy Neutrals, Kif. With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.

Here's the SRD entry for the spell. It definitely nukes the neutrals.

The evil equivalent is Blasphemy, which nukes all non-evil creatures. Yes, the neutrals get it from both sides.

Then there's Word of Chaos and Dictum, the Law and Chaos equivalents of those Good/Evil spells. Neutrals, believe it or not, death!

Pick a side, you neutral scum!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Good.

What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I have a sunny disposition that’s balanced out with depression. True neutral.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

All I know, my gut says maybe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well, my parents were worshipers of Ishtar, so I was kind of born into it...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My favorite characters are TN Wizards or Clerics

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Here’s the SRD entry for the spell. It definitely nukes the neutrals.

Which is kind of horrifying because most of the population of any given setting is supposed to be neutral. The average commoner isn't so greatly committed to following airtight moral codes that they'll ping on a detect whatever spell, whether that's good, evil, law, or chaos. Cast that on a crowd of randoms and you've probably wiped out three quarters of them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It was a bit different back in the 3rd edition days, "good" and "evil" were slung around a bit more liberally. I believe it wasn't until the 5th edition when they introduced the "unaligned" state, which is sort of "neutral but without the commitment", and assumed most average folk were unaligned.

Presumably before the high cleric casts Holy Word there'd be a festival ahead of time in which people are given plenty of opportunity to donate to good causes (ie, the Church) to crank up their good meters before being "tested."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like the average townsperson would sit between neutral good/lawful neutral.

Implementing a system like that would kill a lot of innocent people and the occasional guilty person.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Accidental realism

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Tell my wife I said... hello

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Upvoted purely for the Futurama reference.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The 'both sides are the same' idiots certainly deserve it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I now want a campaign based on those 4 spells, as swords.