(09-29-2015, 12:59 PM)SicketySix Wrote:(09-29-2015, 12:29 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: I could use clean-burning energy sources to boil orphans. I could use highly wasteful energy sources to cure cancer. They're not exclusive.
You have such a charming way of putting things in perspective.
But I see what you are saying and I think I agree. He wouldn't necessarily be evil in the way of killing everyone, but still doing his own thing without worry for right or wrong.
You could do this, sure. Â Ultimately a lot of what the story of Power is the conviction to use it and not be changed with it, or not to use it, or be completely be consumed by it.
I think throwing away the Conviction part of the DRK concept is a bad idea, much like saying you're playing a WAR and then being a complete pacifist is a surefire route to mental dissonance.
So if you do this kind of thing? What's the drive. Â Why is being Selfish the proper Conviction to Use Power? Â
What pressure keeps you in that facet, what makes that a push that keeps you as a DRK instead of say: A mob boss or a gang leader? Â What requires the DRK part of that? Â Are you going to "clean" up the underworld under your leadership? Â Are you going to wipe out all other gangs and settle things in the violent parts of the city so you can do your whatever-work uninterrupted?
What makes criminal, or just selfish, a concept that works with DRK? Why bother with DRK at all when you could just be playing: A Criminal, or A Mob Boss, or A Theif. Â You haven't given us any info beyond "Gonna be selfish", which means it CAN happen, but that's no indicator of if it's a Good Idea or not.
It's got a lot of potential for "Square hole round peg" syndrome unless you work with the core thematics of DRK which end up being: What drives the emotion that makes Selfish And Profiting Yourself The Correct Path For Everyone Else as well. Why does everyone else need to bend knee?
Why is that a Right everyone else could be put to death for?
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