>I agree with Tiatan that this has stopped to be newbie
>question. There was some discussion in Depoetsoende goodbye
>thread about what good align is, so this thread came in rather
>convenient moment and could have diverged to a larger one on
>Gameplay.


I had dropped this thread due to the sense that it no longer was a Newbie thread, but an idea popped into my head and I figure what the heck, I'll state it and move on.

If a good PC kills a sufficient number of neutral, sentient NPC's, one of the wealthy, neutral NPC's could take a substantial bounty out on the good PC. It wouldn't have to be explained IC as having anything to do with morality. The wealthy, neutral NPC could simply reveal itself to be a very good friend of one of the neutral, sentient NPC's the good PC killed.

I like this because it establishes accountability for the good PC's in a credible manner that seems to me be pretty elegant. We can still go ahead and kill neutral sentient NPC's to our heart's content if that's how we perceive our RP. The game won't stop us. We can get our favorite gear. But we also know that eventually there will be consequences if we continue on this path. And the consequences are realistic. After all, neutral sentients could plausibly make friends and some of those friends could plausibly afford a bounty and be angry enough to take one out. I think this actually *adds* to the realism of the neutral sentient NPC's.

OK. Bye. LOL