Only the book of vile darkness makes you evil, and only if you fail a save. Let's say that you try to read them both. You'd have to be good aligned to read the book of exalted deeds, and you'd have to make the save against the book of vile darkness or you get deleted by holy magic. Let's say you do that. Well, I'd consider reading the book of vile darkness an evil deed, and reading the book of exalted deeds a good deed. That means that the book of vile darkness disappears, and you do not gain any benefits from the book of exalted deeds.
So, in summary, literally nothing, besides possibly changing your alignment and then getting obliterated by holy fire.
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"Ignorance is bliss, and you look absolutely miserable."
If reading the Book of Exalted Deeds makes you good and reading the Book of Vile Darkness makes you evil, what happens if you read them both?
My guess is it makes you a gamer nerd. Especially since I don't think those books exist in the current edition. Welcome to the insanity that is geekdom. May it always bring you joy.
If reading the Book of Exalted Deeds makes you good and reading the Book of Vile Darkness makes you evil, what happens if you read them both?
My guess is it makes you a gamer nerd. Especially since I don't think those books exist in the current edition. Welcome to the insanity that is geekdom. May it always bring you joy.
They're both in the DMG as magic items instead of sourcebooks.
If reading the Book of Exalted Deeds makes you good and reading the Book of Vile Darkness makes you evil, what happens if you read them both?
My guess is it makes you a gamer nerd. Especially since I don't think those books exist in the current edition. Welcome to the insanity that is geekdom. May it always bring you joy.
They're both in the DMG as magic items instead of sourcebooks.
The sourcebooks were named after the magic items, even: they've both existed in the game for a long time.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
*sigh* I apologize for my poor attempt at humor. The fact is that the original post caused me to picture these two titles sitting side-by-side in the back room, where they actually share a shelf with a a first edition Player's Handbook and a DMG. Somehow over the years, despite moving, rearranging and even putting some books and other game materials into storage, we have always kept these titles together. Perhaps, we really do expect them to counterbalance one another. Or perhaps it is just another example of too much time given to a hobby/addiction. I certainly didn't mean to offend anybody.
Another possibility that belatedly occurs to me is that reading both might simply drive you mad....
The neutrality book was supposed to be balanced equation that proffers guidance, though does not insist upon itself, wherein one may learn how to stand one's ground while going forward, while at so keeping in mind what came before. The contracted writer has been staring at a blank page for well past a decade now wondering what the point is in writing it and bothering folks. There's a shrugging gesture the author does at this impasse before going off to do something else. That gesture is essentially what the book is supposed to be, but not even the highest Order of Scribes or member of the College of Elloquence knows exactly how to publish it.
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If reading the Book of Exalted Deeds makes you good and reading the Book of Vile Darkness makes you evil, what happens if you read them both?
Only the book of vile darkness makes you evil, and only if you fail a save. Let's say that you try to read them both. You'd have to be good aligned to read the book of exalted deeds, and you'd have to make the save against the book of vile darkness or you get deleted by holy magic. Let's say you do that. Well, I'd consider reading the book of vile darkness an evil deed, and reading the book of exalted deeds a good deed. That means that the book of vile darkness disappears, and you do not gain any benefits from the book of exalted deeds.
So, in summary, literally nothing, besides possibly changing your alignment and then getting obliterated by holy fire.
"Ignorance is bliss, and you look absolutely miserable."
Whatever happened to the Book of Boring Neutrality?
My guess is it makes you a gamer nerd. Especially since I don't think those books exist in the current edition.
Welcome to the insanity that is geekdom. May it always bring you joy.
I thought that was the Situational Ethics of True Neutrality.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt
They're both in the DMG as magic items instead of sourcebooks.
The sourcebooks were named after the magic items, even: they've both existed in the game for a long time.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
*sigh* I apologize for my poor attempt at humor.
The fact is that the original post caused me to picture these two titles sitting side-by-side in the back room, where they actually share a shelf with a a first edition Player's Handbook and a DMG. Somehow over the years, despite moving, rearranging and even putting some books and other game materials into storage, we have always kept these titles together. Perhaps, we really do expect them to counterbalance one another. Or perhaps it is just another example of too much time given to a hobby/addiction.
I certainly didn't mean to offend anybody.
Another possibility that belatedly occurs to me is that reading both might simply drive you mad....
The neutrality book was supposed to be balanced equation that proffers guidance, though does not insist upon itself, wherein one may learn how to stand one's ground while going forward, while at so keeping in mind what came before. The contracted writer has been staring at a blank page for well past a decade now wondering what the point is in writing it and bothering folks. There's a shrugging gesture the author does at this impasse before going off to do something else. That gesture is essentially what the book is supposed to be, but not even the highest Order of Scribes or member of the College of Elloquence knows exactly how to publish it.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.