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Okay in the now missing forums that used to be on the wizards site then gleemax I had a thread that I saved and referred to quite a bit. I'm hoping for a little help recreating it. The thread listed 4 or 5 questions that helped me flesh out a character's motivations and personality. Then another 7 or 8 situations where there was no "right" answer ,sometimes it was choosing the greater of two nearly equal goods, sometimes the lesser of two nearly equal evils. The answers to these dilemmas also gave a ton of information.

I'm hoping that you guys can provide some thoughts on this. Here is one dilemma I remember to get started with.

You ride into a village on your way to confront the Evil Cleric before she can make a human sacrifice and gain great power. A man is being beaten in the street by a noble screaming about the loss of a scared relic while a teenage girl screams from the opposite side of the street that he is inoccent. What do you do?
Do you continue on to confront the greater evil and come back knowing that any delay could spell disaster?
Do you stop and investigate the incident?
Do you simply beat the noble senseless ride off to confront the evil and come back to find out more afterwards?
None of the above. Explain.

In a party, have someone tie up the girl, the man, and the noble, and set them aside, and come back after the cleric is dealt with.
Alone, confront the cleric, because it may not matter if the man is beaten to death, if the cleric gets super powerful and kills everyone anyway.

It depends on distances. If they're all close enough - Why not Sleep, Hold Person or THAT kind of spell (I'm too lazy to check duration - ok) on the noble, guy and woman. Beat up the evil, but undoubtedly sexy and scantily clad, cleric, sort out the squabbling townsfolk and back to the inn in time for mead and crumpets! HUzzah!

Grasharm wrote:
You ride into a village on your way to confront the Evil Cleric before she can make a human sacrifice and gain great power. A man is being beaten in the street by a noble screaming about the loss of a scared relic while a teenage girl screams from the opposite side of the street that he is inoccent. What do you do?
Do you continue on to confront the greater evil and come back knowing that any delay could spell disaster?
Do you stop and investigate the incident?
Do you simply beat the noble senseless ride off to confront the evil and come back to find out more afterwards?
None of the above. Explain.

My favorite character is borderline Lawful Good. She would definately stop and help the man who was being beaten. She would demand an explanation. If not satisfied she might contain the man and the noble out of site and possibly the girl as well, and continue on. She would never beat anyone at all unless absolutely forced to. Like in the case of the Evil Cleric. Neither could she ever ignore anyone being harmed unless absolutely sure that creature/person was evil. because she's cool like that.