Posted by Proud Blade(VIP) on September 28, 2000 at 10:21:14:
In Reply to: Cothurak: posted by Balrahd on September 28, 2000 at 09:37:56:
"Paint his face on every shadowrunner - they're all merciless jerks" Sounds to me like you have an axe to grind. There are a lot of ways to play a villain. Zlisthjor is one, of course, but to go as far as to say that all evil-aligned characters are "jerks" in an OOC format makes you sound like you are taking your crusade a bit far. As someone who interviewed three or four dozen unsavory sinister types for potential Scarab-dom, I can assure you that there is just a wide a range of personalities and styles among the evil characters as there is among the good ones. I might agree with you on "merciless", if only because mercy is one of the traits that should define a "good" character. But implying that every evil-aligned character would multi-kill powerless pit-sitting Cothuraks is a bit of a step too far.