MektonZ

Re: Making the Police Officer package deal more realistic

Don't forget: Psych Limitation: No Sense of Humor (Common, Total)

I swear, some of the departments I've dealt with must have removed the humor from their officers through surgical means.

Re: Alignment Issues

In my game' date=' your alignment will definitely carry consequences. For example, evil characters entering most towns will almost certainly be persecuted or at least heavily monitored. Likewise, good characters encroaching into "evil" lands will be particularly sought after by their residents.[/quote']

 

Do people walk around in your fantasy world carrying large signs proclaiming their alignment? One dusty guy riding into town on a horse looks much like another until they get famous enough that wanted posters start getting spread all over the region. Even that might not even be possible if the game takes place in a world where there are no printing presses. In addition, most crimes are going to be local and anyone looking for them is not going to look far due to the cost involved.

 

In my game, if you really want to be evil, you can be. You want to murder children? Go for it!

Evil does not mean stupid. While an Evil person mignt not have any moral reservations about killing a child in broad daylight on a crowded street; they are fully aware that such actions have negative consequences that far outweigh the few moments of pleasure such an act might give them.

 

Just beware that officers of the law (and possibly Heaven) will be on your trail!

Heavenly retribution? If such things actually happened, do you honestly think that anyone on the entire planet would risk being obliterated by a celestial being by deliberately being evil? The only "evil" on the planet would either be whatever petty crime that heaven allows to happen or crimes of passion. And if the angels are coming down to Earth to personally hand out retribution, there certainly won't be any need for a mere mortal hero to aspire to anything more glorious than to join the local town watch and keep the drunks out of the streets.

 

As for law enforcement officials, I wouldn't count them as too effective as long as the Evil guy is careful about witnesses. 12 years before the start of the 20th century a guy managed to kill 5 women in the same neighborhood in a period of just over 2 months without ever being caught or even indentified.