Good Versus Evil: A Test

[Doctor Amos]

This is my old (ancient) GvE Test. How do you rate? Choose the option that best represents your position. Scoring is at the end.

1.)

a.) You would never seriously consider doing harm to a captive.

b.) You would browbeat or harass a captive to obtain information needed to help or save another.

c.) You would inflict physical harm upon a captive directly in order to obtain information, either intentionally or in a fit of anger.

d.) You would cause slow, deliberate pain to a target as a specific means of exacting information.

2.)

a.) You always keep your word, regardless, telling the perfect truth.

b.) You may choose to omit certain facts when needed.

c.) You may subtly shift your testimony, or fabricate small details, when needed.

d.) You have little problem fabricating the entire truth or misleading others.

3.)

a.) You stay within the guidelines for proper conduct.

b.) You may subtly shift the rules so that the odds are more fair.

c.) You may subtly shift the rules so that the odds favor your cause.

d.) You have little problem breaking a treaty, oath, or social moor if it provides a strong, decisive victory or advantage.

4.)

a.) You regularly give to charity.

b.) You do not see the harm in taking a fallen foe’s equipment to further your cause.

c.) You seek out foes to take equipment from, or take goods from those who are not your foes.

d.) Anyone too weak to defend their property deserves to have it taken from them.

5.)

a.) The bonds of friendship and family are sacred.

b.) You would consider breaking off from family or friends if they became abusive or harmful.

c.) You would consider retaliating against family or friends if they became abusive or harmful.

d.) You feel no special bonds for anyone, either through circumstances of birth or circumstances of place.

6.)

a.) Never harm a living thing if you can help it.

b.) Never kill an intelligent thing that doesn’t wish to kill you.

c.) Never kill a humanoid that doesn’t wish to kill you.

d.) Sometimes, people have to die for no fault of their own. Sometimes, I have to kill them.

7.)

a.) Those that do wrongs against you need the most guidance and understanding.

b.) An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

c.) Eye for an eye, and let no creature try to stand in my way.

d.) Those who wrong you shall suffer for as long as you can make them, no matter the crime.

8.)

a.) All evil powers and those that worship them aught to punished.

b.) It is sometimes necessary for a community to know a few ways to appease the wrath of an evil god.

c.) It is sometimes necessary for a community to harbor a few evil clerics to suspend an evil god’s wrath.

d.) It is always necessary for a community, and sometimes for non-clerical individuals therein, to know ways to appease evil gods.

9.)

a.) Let the bodies of the dead be considered sacred.

b.) The dead are no longer attached to their forms, but it is unhealthy to consort with such things.

c.) Dead are but lifeless shells. It is best to make what use we can with them.

d.) Do what you please with the dead. They won’t mind.

10.)

a.) All fiends should be fought on sight with great fervor, and sought out to be slain.

b.) Fiends should be fought when present and slain where possible.

c.) Fiends of one type should be mistrusted, and all others slain.

d.) All fiends should be mistrusted.

11.)

a.) Even lifting a foe’s heart with a joke or song is a thing of beauty.

b.) Foes should respect you.

c.) Foes should fear you.

d.) Foes should despair at the thought of fighting you. Even the threat of your presence makes others uneasy.

12.)

a.) It’s best to abstain from mortal temptation.

b.) It’s alright to smoke, have sex, or other small vices.

c.) It’s alright for some people to whore, sell beer to young children, or otherwise advance vice. It is also alright for some people to have larger vices.

d.) It’s alright for some people to pimp, sell illicit drugs, or otherwise advance larger vices.

13.)

a.) Those who are hurt, even foes, need to be healed.

b.) Those who are hurt should be healed, except foes.

c.) Those who are hurt should be healed if they are sympathetic to your cause.

d.) Only your allies should be healed.

14.)

a.) Even foes deserve a second chance.

b.) A foe who surrenders shouldn’t be slain.

c.) Those that have done evil should pay for their crimes.

d.) Prisoners should only be kept to show others the penalty for crossing you.

15.)

a.) Even demons, given guidance and love, may ascend to the path of light.

b.) Even orcs, in the right communities, may serve the path of goodness.

c.) Creatures will not betray their true nature; there are no good mind flayers.

d.) All beings, except perhaps a handful of celestials, will become evil if given a chance.

Score: a=-1. b=0, c=1, d=2

-15 to -2: Good. Character is suited to be Exalted.

-2 to 2: Good. Character is practical, but still good.

3-10: Neutral.

11 to 15: Evil.

16+: Evil. Character is suited to be Vile.

[Sliver Chocobo]

I'm a nice guy after all

[xxXhayzelXxx]

Im not evil... honest!

[Ratty]

I'm not evil.. I'm pragmatic, it's a completely different thing.

[Sliver Chocobo]

Im not evil... honest!

Of cause your not evil:D

Ok I said it, can I have the sweetie now

[xxXhayzelXxx]

Good man! Yes you can *offers sweetie*

[Megatron0]

I always find good and evil subjective anyway...*sulks in corner*

[osoi]

I ended up Neutral

[Doctor Amos]

I always find good and evil subjective anyway...*sulks in corner*

This test was created origionally for use with D&D 3.5, where (as it was very often debated) Good and Evil were not only objective, but quite real and capable of manifesting physically.

[NeverEnding]

15...on the brink of vile. I actually agree, DnD wise I always play chaotic neutral though....

May save your life, may steal your car. Thats me.

[Dark Alleycat]

14,not a big surprise there.

D&D I tended to play Lawful Evil when I had the oppurtunity to choose an alignment I wouldn't have to work at being.

[NeverEnding]

amen. never try to be what you cant lol

[Dark Alleycat]

Oh I can be...Its just certain alignments take more effort then others.

[NeverEnding]

yeahhh being good or evil was too limiting for me. I enjoy being chaotic neutral.

[Cats Laughing]

1.)

d.) You would cause slow, deliberate pain to a target as a specific means of exacting information.

2.)

d.) You have little problem fabricating the entire truth or misleading others.

3.)

d.) You have little problem breaking a treaty, oath, or social moor if it provides a strong, decisive victory or advantage.

4.)

d.) Anyone too weak to defend their property deserves to have it taken from them.

5.)

d.) You feel no special bonds for anyone, either through circumstances of birth or circumstances of place.

6.)

d.) Sometimes, people have to die for no fault of their own. Sometimes, I have to kill them.

7.)

d.) Those who wrong you shall suffer for as long as you can make them, no matter the crime.

8.)

b.) It is sometimes necessary for a community to know a few ways to appease the wrath of an evil god.

9.)

b.) The dead are no longer attached to their forms, but it is unhealthy to consort with such things.

c.) Dead are but lifeless shells. It is best to make what use we can with them.

d.) Do what you please with the dead. They won’t mind.

(these all sound basically the same to me...)

10.)

d.) All fiends should be mistrusted.

11.)

b.) Foes should respect you.

c.) Foes should fear you.

d.) Foes should despair at the thought of fighting you. Even the threat of your presence makes others uneasy.

12.)

b.) It’s alright to smoke, have sex, or other small vices.

Sex is not a vice.

13.)

c.) Those who are hurt should be healed if they are sympathetic to your cause.

Replace "sympathetic" with "useful"

14.)

c.) Those that have done evil should pay for their crimes.

d.) Prisoners should only be kept to show others the penalty for crossing you.

15.)

d.) All beings, except perhaps a handful of celestials, will become evil if given a chance.

Score: a=-1. b=0, c=1, d=2

-15 to -2: Good. Character is suited to be Exalted.

-2 to 2: Good. Character is practical, but still good.

3-10: Neutral.

11 to 15: Evil.

16+: Evil. Character is suited to be Vile.

I think I hit 16+ after question 9...

[Sliver Chocobo]

15...on the brink of vile. I actually agree, DnD wise I always play chaotic neutral though....

May save your life, may steal your car. Thats me.

I personly enjoy being chaotic good

It's an odd alinement, that a lot of fun:D

[AvatarForm]

Over 9000!!!

I believe I was so enthusiastic that I repeatedly clicked d) on some... maybe all... questions...

[Absolution Black]

I got 11, just sneaking into the evil bracket. Hmmmm, not what I expected but hey, these things never lie huh?

Right, now to start making plans for world domination....Pinky!!

[Ratty]

In D&D planar being were a pain whatever alignment they were.. It was a goo idea just to apply a sword repeatedly to the face as soon as they appeared and ask questions later... Normally it was some Lawful Good entity that turned up to slaughter all the kids in an orphanage because they didn't brush their teeth.

[karn987]

Interesting... if I do it from the prospective my general RP persona (ie Karn) it's 21... little evil huh?

But from myself it's 9, so just barely not evil by this heh. Though then again I don't interact with Fiends much so *shrugs*

Very nice Amos, this was an interesting read for sure.

[Megatron0]

This test was created origionally for use with D&D 3.5, where (as it was very often debated) Good and Evil were not only objective, but quite real and capable of manifesting physically.

Ahh D&D 3.5....

still a nifty test though, I came through with C answers (15pts)

[Manicmac]

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

[Absolution Black]

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

Or for evil men to do that little bit more!

[Ratty]

Or for evil men to do that little bit more!

Or as I've found out through experience, just be competent.

[Doctor Amos]

One of the most valueable lessons I learned debating alignment on the internet (a good thought excercize) is that the opposition of evil isn't its negation. Oppossing evil isn't good. It may also be evil. The same with allying with good. And vice versa on all accounts.