I was playing with a friend who was playing a Druid in Multiplayer. We were NOT doing an RP run and he tends to be on the chaotic side (heavily) - but when we got to the Shattered Sanctum with Halsin he elected to "throw rocks at the caged bear with the Goblins"
Even for me I found that shocking. I had to ask him how he justified behaving that way as a Druid and he couldn't give me an answer.
I felt that at some point you just can't point to your CN alignment and use it as an excuse. I don't even think a CE Druid would do that.
It made me think about how there isn't an "Oathbreaker" for Druids, and that maybe there should be.
Granted he was drunk, but still.
Given I never play multiplayer I guess I haven’t earned an opinion, but somehow it feels as though there’s more obligation to be able to justify choices when playing with others than in single player. And I grant this would be a tough one. Perhaps if the druid didn’t think the stones would actually hurt the bear, just get him angry enough to break out of his cage? Still a huge stretch.
And yes, for druids and clerics (and possibly even rangers) it feels as though we need to commit to playing characters within certain boundaries, at least if we care about RP at all, given the game doesn’t have a mechanic for oathbreaker equivalents. I guess if we get multiclassing then we can just select a different class and progress in that instead, but that wouldn’t explain how we continue to access the divine powers we already had access to.
