>>96137957
>It's not "energy", it's a cosmic rule.
That in most editions "Evil" is a distinct measurable property of a thing with direct applications says it's both.

>>96138009
>Oh, were we talking about energy planes or were we talking about morality?
In the standard Great Wheel cosmology of D&D, they overlap.

>>96138050
>How many paladins commit murder?
"Killing Bad" is not in the deontology of the Upper Planes, while some factor of eating people's brains is. Running around as judge, jury, and executioner according to Slaydar is entirely fine by the objective cosmological Good, though possibly not by Law. Do remove real-life ethics from your deliberations, because there are a LOT of ways D&D Alignment diverges from them due to the constraints of the murderhobo gameplay loop.

>>96138135
>Jesus christ are you pitching an aftercool special to the CW network or something? What is this corny bullshit?
There actually is an existing example of fucking with Ceremorphosis by developing a dietary substitute with the Adversary and IIRC the 3.5 Book of Exalted Deeds has one using a Ring of Sustenance. "Always" Alignments aren't quite 100%, as the Succubus Paladin exists to highlight, just intrinsic circumstances that "essentially guarantee" the Alignment.

>>96138152
>They are smarter compared to you than you are compared to a cow. Are you vegan?
The difference is that cows aren't people. And that's actually an objectively-measurable thing. In D&D, animal cruelty is bad on a virtue-ethics basis, not Evil in itself.

>>96138178
>You don't like that you're being confronted by a fundamental contradiction in the premise of your belief system
Again, D&D Alignment is not real-life ethics and operates on deontology. There is no contradiction because there is no general "killing bad", and thus it must be something else about the brain-eating.

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