Der Rote Baron
Mongoose
I know: Corruption bites your behind if you deal with demons, read forbidden tomes, discover secrets man was not meant to know etc. But what about wanton slaughter, torture of innocents etc. Does that earn players a corruption point?
Here is my example: I have a pirate/ thief in my campaign - no code of honor, three corruption points and getting viler and amoral every day. These point all come from various encounters with the evil supernatural.
The player is playing his new corruption points very well, without resorting to over the top violence - the character just does not give a shoot about other people any more (npcs so far) and is behaving "like a thieving pirate".
In comes a Borderer-Soldier. She has been played like a quite nice person, giving golden lotus to npc-madmen healing them that way and is generally speaking easy-going.
In the last adventure she willingly participated in the hour-long torture of a random elderly and utter helpless herder who was suspected by the pirate "to know something" about an evil cult. The pirate just grabbed the next best herder in the village and tortured him (rolling low in Intimidation and Sense Motive that he neither could break the resistance of the herder nor figure out if the herder knew anything. In the meanwhile the Borderer more or less actively participated in the torture by holding the victim, threatening him and even telling the pirate (while the herder was pleading for mercy) to kill him to keep the villagers from knowing that they took and tortured him.
Now I know that the world of Conan is no place for moral plays and no kindergarten or pony camp and I don't wnat to tell ym players how to play their characters. But I gave the Borderer 1 Point of Corruption (no save!) for stepping over the line. The pirate was "just doing his corrupted job" so no point for him.
My argumnet is that in Conan tortuing the guilty or persumed guilty is just the way the world is - so that is all right. Morals of the time.
But torturing the helpless just to "find something out" and the killing him after they leraned NOTHING is soul corrupting and since it was roleplayed there is no save. It was a decision, not some trap or encounter.
And one point is all she gets. Now she can torture the innocent all she wants - been there, done that. Routine of corruption.
What do you say? Is that the correct way to give out corruption points in Conan or is it just demons, supernatural evil and the likes? Should she get to save against corruption? What would the DC be?
Again: I am not mad at the player. This is not intended to be a "punishment", just the result of the actions the player chose. I am just not sure if that is the way the corruption rule is supposed to be used.
Here is my example: I have a pirate/ thief in my campaign - no code of honor, three corruption points and getting viler and amoral every day. These point all come from various encounters with the evil supernatural.
The player is playing his new corruption points very well, without resorting to over the top violence - the character just does not give a shoot about other people any more (npcs so far) and is behaving "like a thieving pirate".
In comes a Borderer-Soldier. She has been played like a quite nice person, giving golden lotus to npc-madmen healing them that way and is generally speaking easy-going.
In the last adventure she willingly participated in the hour-long torture of a random elderly and utter helpless herder who was suspected by the pirate "to know something" about an evil cult. The pirate just grabbed the next best herder in the village and tortured him (rolling low in Intimidation and Sense Motive that he neither could break the resistance of the herder nor figure out if the herder knew anything. In the meanwhile the Borderer more or less actively participated in the torture by holding the victim, threatening him and even telling the pirate (while the herder was pleading for mercy) to kill him to keep the villagers from knowing that they took and tortured him.
Now I know that the world of Conan is no place for moral plays and no kindergarten or pony camp and I don't wnat to tell ym players how to play their characters. But I gave the Borderer 1 Point of Corruption (no save!) for stepping over the line. The pirate was "just doing his corrupted job" so no point for him.
My argumnet is that in Conan tortuing the guilty or persumed guilty is just the way the world is - so that is all right. Morals of the time.
But torturing the helpless just to "find something out" and the killing him after they leraned NOTHING is soul corrupting and since it was roleplayed there is no save. It was a decision, not some trap or encounter.
And one point is all she gets. Now she can torture the innocent all she wants - been there, done that. Routine of corruption.
What do you say? Is that the correct way to give out corruption points in Conan or is it just demons, supernatural evil and the likes? Should she get to save against corruption? What would the DC be?
Again: I am not mad at the player. This is not intended to be a "punishment", just the result of the actions the player chose. I am just not sure if that is the way the corruption rule is supposed to be used.