Ok, who's done it...?

I've killed the odd person, here and there: Furnock, Brother Smith, Rannos and Gremag (those two deserve nothing less or more than cold steel in the belly.) But I've never massacred.

I treid to play CE, for the experience, but I couldn't go on very long; it just goes against my grain.

 

The only people in Hommlet who have ever died by my hand were those asociated with the Temple in some way: Rannos, Gremag and their various stooges. I often pick up the Purveyor of Swift Justice, but never Butcher of Hommlet.

 

Ican't make the claim of being pearly white... there are odd times I like to go back through Nulb and clense it of it's evil (and anything else in my path)

 

I have never had any adventuring party kill everyone in Hommlet.

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Then again, I have only played Good parties [LG+CG+NG] and also played Chaotic Neutral parties. If I ever play a CE party, I am pretty sure it will be on the itinerary...whistle while you work, hack-and-slash through Hommlet, Nulb, and the temple, too.

 

I never killed anyone in Hommlet... though I was tempted to do so...
Well, except for some bad guys. :wyatt:

 

I, too, have cleansed Nulb of its evil. But I've never cleansed Hommlet of its goodness. I've tried playing an evil party, but just can't get into it. I start feeling bad. I guess I'm just too good for my own good...er...yeah.

 

I just broke lareth out of the mages tower by kicking the doors down and killing all who stood in my path because I was shity at them (I accidently got butcher of hommlet rep - damn failed slight of hand check), then I felt kinda bad about it for breaking character (well my party is LE, but I have a few NE guys in the group). Losing all the traders in hommlet was made up for the fact that I got a new trader in the temple.

 

I've played CE and LE, but I've never slaughtered Hommlet. It never made sense to me from a RP perspective. Xyklon or Belkar might kill the odd villager because it's fun or because they'll profit by it, but only after they've decided to move on and won't have to deal with the consequences.

Challenge wise, there's not enough meat to killing off the villagers to make it fun.

When playing LE and CE, I have killed individual villagers for profit. In a few games I've ended up killing everyone at the Hostel and the Tavern in Nulb; it's easy to set the whole place hostile.

Generally I play good or neutral aligned parties.

 

I shot the sheriff.

But I didn't shoot the deputy.

 

I once made a saved game before killing Jaroo and the head cleric, (his name escapes me) just to see what items you get.

You get a good amount of experiance in the Cleric battle as well as the +3 staff. Have always been tempted to do it, but I don't like being branded a butcher

 

I got the Butcher rep quite by surprise, once. Seems Kobort, Toruko, Zert, Furnok, the Traders, and maybe even Spugnoir counted as "villagers" on the death count. I wasn't too worried about them dying as a result of adventuring (or me taking them out for being evil). Then, Elmo "died" after betraying the party while charmed. I didn't have an earlier save to fall back on, and had to take him down before he slaughtered the rest of the group. Thinking we could raise him, we went back to Homlett only to discover complete hostility. It was a very long game after that. My pc cleric couldn't get high enough spells to raise / heal the group (noob user error), and I had to purchase the Staff of Life from Screng to have any hope of completing the game.

Nulb? That was a philosophical choice...

 

For some reason I can't bring myself to do it, or play evil parties in general. Even in KOTOR one and two, I've never gotten through either game as a thug, err, darksider. Same with Baldur's Gate.

I'm sure there's a lot of great content I'm missing, but I just can't bring myself to do it.

1) "Give me your coin, old man, before I scatter your innards on the tile!"

 

Other than killing specific individuals to test I haven't broke teh game, nope. The only time I've ever had the butcher tag was back in vanilla with the buggy treatment of NPCs who die while in your party.