The Good, The Bad, and The Alignment Shift.

[Specter]

I've enjoyed getting a Heroes Unlimited game going on a semi weekly basis this month. This gives me an over all fix for gaming and has distracted me from certain negative things in my life. It gives me something to look forward to. Now one of the players is... interesting? He says a lot of things seemingly with the intention of causing trouble or hurting gameplay... or it could just be awesome.

For example: He accused one of the world's most powerful superheroes (Hellstar) in this game world of being gay and that the whole Power Squad was in fact homosexual.

After a gravity manipulator enforcer was knocked out he decided to grab him by the legs and slam him into a concrete wall... all the other characters were like "whoa whoa!" "dude, I think that'd be murder."

The characters were questioning a motel manager where the Power Squad's butler was murdered as they were following up on leads for a missing magical weapon. He suddenly grabs the guy slams his head onto the counter and starts screaming "where's Harvey Dent!?"

Lastly, the only female gamer who is also the one who will keep her husband playing and keeping me with a full group totally murdered a supervillian... should I enforce the whole alignment thing or just let them have there fun? Bah, I'll totally let them have there fun.

[Nightmask]

Were they actually signed on to play HEROES? Doesn't sound like much of a heroic nature going on there, more Punisher and the more evil incarnations of Batman being played out.

As far as alignment shifts go, unless you're outwardly displaying the negative aspects of an evil alignment or have a magic item that depends on a particular alignment to be useful imposing such a shift doesn't have much obvious affect on game play. No level losses or other concrete game problems beyond what they incur from behavior that attracts other actual heroes to deal with them, or for the players who still have actual good heroes to have to deal with a group breaking up over it or suffering their own 'Start of Darkness' because of it.

[Grell]

I'd say enforce the alignment shift if it fits with the game you're playing. If you're just having fun with supers and the maniacal streak isn't relevant to the story then let them go crazy. It really depends on what you want from the game and how their actions affect it (or not).

[AlanGunhouse]

It depends, if the character happens to have an insanity that causes their behavior, then it might not effect their overall alignment. Otherwise, enforce it, it give them a clue that they are acting wrong

[csyphrett]

If you are not enforcing alignment, don't worry about it.

If you are enforcing alignment, the players get a warning at least then you have to zap them.

Secondly, some heroes don't like big mouths mouthing off.
CES