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Alignment variation to game.

Discussion in 'The Temple of Elemental Evil' started by Khazraj, Mar 12, 2004.

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    Is this game really linear. I don't think that alignment plays more than a "who can join the party" role. It seems that you will end up in the Temple in exactly the same way no matter what...
     
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    Well, it also affects the starting vignettes.
     
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    True enough, but is there any other effect? This game doesn't seem to have anywhere near the alignment "effect" as NWN or BG2. What relevance does it have "in game". I can't see any.
     
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    The only in-game effect I can think of is that certain clerical spells are alignment-restricted. My Lawful Good cleric has the Law and Destruction domains, but can't cast the third-circle domain spell Contagion. Same for my LG cleric that held the Death domain - I couldn't cast Death Knell or Animate Dead. But they were going to be GOOD skeletons, honest!
     
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    ok dont ever do that again, i was just very disturbed, i looked at your portrait, then immediately read, GOOD skeletons, honest, and i about wet myself, quite scary. oh and im in the dark in a house thats empty, that could be it too :D

    [Next time deliver such random babbling over PM, not inside a thread you have nothing to say about.] -Tal

    [ March 13, 2004, 14:05: Message edited by: Taluntain ]
     
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    I don't just bring dead skeletons to life, I even resurrect seemingly dead threads!

    I can't believe I forgot this, but - as the name implies - the quests in the Temple of Elemental Evil are meant for Evil characters. There's even an alternate ending if you want to swear fealty to the Temple. I don't think it's absolutely necessary that your party be officially Evil - the priests have propositioned my Good party - but the quests only make sense for evildoers.

    ToEE is the only game I've played where the Evil solution is to talk your way through peacefully, and the Good solution is to kill everything that moves.
     
    Grey Magistrate, Mar 14, 2004
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    Wow, Grey, I just realised that myself. The good paladin is invading a small country under a temple and slaughtering all that moves whereas the evil necromancer is bringing a little law and order to a rather unruly underworld. Roles are reversed no?
     
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    Cool! Actual incentive for me to play an evil party, for the first time in my life. Maybe having such a weak plot is a good thing :) .

    Can you choose the "evil" path with a neutral party?
     
    Neriana, Mar 14, 2004
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