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DFRPG / Re: Newbie to the game: Non-Evil Necromancer
« on: December 15, 2012, 02:00:37 AM »I honestly just do not see a necromancer having to worry about going insane easily from using the type of magic they specialize in. Cowl, Grevane, and company would have been braindead if it were the case.
Personally I consider all of those characters to be insane.
The Kemmlerite were insane. As in "Why negotiate when I can kill him then break into the morgue (killing a bunch of people) and get what I want" insane. I see all of them as having all of their aspects twisted by the Lawbreaker power.
In White Knight it strongly hints that Cowl deals with the Outsiders. That's only one more "I am above the concept of sanity" act that this loony does.
Even Kumori "I go around helping people" is crazy. Read that conversation she has about how she will banish death from the world. When Dresden points out the tiny little flaws in her plans (Hitler living forever, vast over population, etc) she completely tunes reality out - because she lives in a world where delusions can come true.
None of those were slobbing at the mouth insane, but they were all insane.
Richard
PS: Edited to address:
Cowl never really came off as mad to me he seemed more like a game theorist to me, his actions all seemed measured and planned.
Cowl believes himself above good and evil, above sanity and insanity. He cooperates with raising the Dark Hallow because he knows he will make a Just God. He works with capital E evil types. The Proto-ghouls, the murdering women who have a touch of talent, the... well, almost everything he does portrays someone who considers himself amoral and asane - which shows how insane he is.
Looking at it another way - if he really has left all mortal moral judgements behind, then he's operating at a level that can't be considered sane.
Richard