Evil Alignment plausible in IWD? (Plz no spoilers)

Contemplative_Hamster

Hi all

I haven't played this game for a decade. Can't recall the storyline. Are there any plot reasons a neutral/evil, predominantly evil party wouldn't go on these quests? I prefer selfish bastards over high-fantasy goody two-shoes, it's just my way, but I want a plausible roleplaying experience, too.

No spoilers, please.

Wesboi

Thing with IWDEE is there no real alignment segregation. So just play how and who you want.

Contemplative_Hamster

Sure, but in some cases in BG, you take on cases specifically for the good cause, no award offered or available, in fact clearly ruled out in the dialogue options. Those quests suck, or rather their prompts suck. I was wondering if any major quests were clearly pro bono publico and with no reward in sight. An evil or selfish character might have a hard time justifying taking on such trouble in such cases.

Contemplative_Hamster

Of course, an intelligent character might consider that there must be room and opportunity for graft, corruption, embezzlement or outright theft SOMEWHERE even during the most noble of causes. Yeah, that'll do.

Pokota

rrchristensen said:

Sure, but in some cases in BG, you take on cases specifically for the good cause, no award offered or available, in fact clearly ruled out in the dialogue options. Those quests suck, or rather their prompts suck. I was wondering if any major quests were clearly pro bono publico and with no reward in sight. An evil or selfish character might have a hard time justifying taking on such trouble in such cases.

Pro Bono events aside from helping Kuldahar are on a per-class basis, not a per-alignment basis. Evil characters can easily justify helping Kuldahar as a revenge strike against whoever attacked them in the pass.

Contemplative_Hamster

Cheers, I can work with that.

SomeSort

Yes, there's a lot of room to play the game with a motivation of "________ basically wants to destroy everyone in the north; I don't give a damn about anyone else, but *I* am someone who is currently in the north and I don't very much feel like being destroyed, so let's go put a sword through his/her/its face."

Basically, you're stuck in the same boat as all of the innocents, so it doesn't matter if you're motivated to save the innocents or to save your own skin, your actions will largely be the same either way.

Grum

Yup. And I'll say that there are a few areas where you can be evil, or where being evil makes more sense.

Example:

Kuld: "They won't pay me? I'm going to pickpocket everyone to get my pay out of them." Can get some nice gear that way.

You said you didn't want spoilers. But I can think of 2 other areas in the game where you can act evil. Either for self preservation, or for convenience/profit.

Contemplative_Hamster

Cheers for your comments, everyone. Actually, in my current game I have gone down the ostensibly good path with an evil character in one instance, for roleplaying reasons. My party leader, a Lawful Evil Champion of Myrkul, God of the Dead, and by extension Burials etc., (a paladin-esque kit from the fantastic Faiths and Powers mod), didn't approve of the halfling in Kuldahar burying the proper owner of the inn in an unmarked grave and taking over the operation. See, I COULD'VE just taken the selfish path to free lodgings in return for not telling anyone, but Myrkul would have disapproved of the halfling trespassing on his portfolio. (Heh, the halfling even called me a paladin, and he didn't mean it as a compliment!)

Yulaw9460

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DJKajuru

There are quite interesting evil/neutral/chaotic dialogue options , starting from easthaven where you have dishonest , greedy or even rude lines . A few early game spoilers on an evil party motivation:

There are dialogue options where You can take Hrotgar's quest because it leads to fortune and (from a more lawful approach) glory.
In kuldahar pass there are evil dialogue options when dealing with the boy who lost his family, including an cleric line a and in kuldahar you might not wanna help them out of your good heart, but there are dialogue options with arundel where you conclude that you're stuck in the pass and your only way out is this misterious enemy

fateless

sometimes it's actually possible to do good things that get you little to no reward for bad intentions as well.