(03-12-2016, 09:30 PM)Nero Wrote: On a purely narrative level, I'm sure there's something appealing in exploring the theme of "Light Is Not Good", and that tools are no more good or evil than their wielders. I'm not sure the healing capabilities of white magic would be appreciated as "good" if it was used to, say, keep a torture victim alive during interrogation in order to break them, or if a bad guy's conjurer croney managed to keep an explicitly evil boss alive and protected so that said explicitly evil boss can go set orphanages on fire.
Is white magic beneficial? Absolutely. But to whom it is beneficial can change the morality behind its usage radically.
Of course, ignoring all the lore stuff. I'm just talking about narrative context, here.
There are other ways to address this, however, without everyone wanting to weaponize the one beneficial magic in the game when it's been driven home over and over again that this is a really terrible idea and almost destroyed the world once before.
Every heard of the "Tyranny of Good Intentions?" Now there's a narrative avenue no one ever wants to explore.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
C.S. Lewis was a wise man.
(03-12-2016, 09:44 PM)Kellach Woods Wrote: Actually, Lost City HM - Lost City regular wouldn't yield any knowledge since the closest thing you'll find is Diabolos.
And he's not gonna be happy.
As far as "character surviving IC run of dungeon", we have at least a couple, including this guy *points to avatar* who have expeditions in dungeons and not just the tiny ones - I can understand just saying you did it but doing it with a group also helps on the planning front.
I was under the impression that the two were connected, and you had to deal with one to reach the other. That's why I phrased it the way I did.
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