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From: jims@hcrvax.UUCP (Jim Sullivan)
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Subject: Re: Killing PC's
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Date: Sun, 5-May-85 15:09:01 EDT
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This has been shortened to only look at the bits that I want to ! :-)

> There are occasionally other reasons to kill off PC's.  Here's a cute one from
> a campaign I took part in some time back.
> 
> We were all 3rd level characters for the most part,...
> ...  We were mostly Lawful types, except for a NG gnome fighter-
> illusionist and a CN human cleric of Dionysius....
> After we repeated our wait-and-see tactics a third time, we were
> suddenly notified by our fighter/illusionist that the cleric hadn't
> shown up for his lookout.
> 
> (Now the fun begins...)
> 
> A small group of us ran all over the place looking for him.  Eventually, we
> heard some wolves and went to see what was up... and found our cleric up a
> tree speaking to them and asking them questions.  Our approach scared the
> wolves away, and one of our fighters (Cirrh, with strength something like
> 24 due to a girdle of giant strength) got really angry with the cleric and
> started yelling nasty things at him up in the tree.  This is what sparked
> the conflict that led to us having to kill him.
> 
> Well, the cleric decided that he didn't want to hear the fighter raving up
> at him, so he threw a silence at him, which only maddened the fighter more
> and took the cleric's spell-casting ability away.  

> Name:		G. T. Samson

Now, here is the problem, Why take his spell-casting ability away ?
A Chaotic-Neutral, being badgered by another party member, does a fairly
non-destructive spell on the PC to shut him up.  The clerics actions were
perfect.  CN's are different, and do things like that.  Why?  Cause it's
chaotic.  I would have given him bonus points for playing his alignment !
Chaotic Neutral is not Chaotic Stupid, as some people tend to play it, but
CN's to chaotic things.  Like killing party members when they are too weak
to continue (it has happened twice to me).  At any rate, the killing of this
poor chaotic seems to be against all the rules of Lawfull Goodness.  LG's
do not walk around thinking about killing party members.

An enraged and shocked Chaotic Neutral (in Life and Fantasy)

Jim Sullivan