When you’re sitting in the GM chair and running a thought provoking campaign do you ever give your players the chance to do good by doing a deal with evil?

This sort of morale issue can be fun to address in RPGs and can give the players lots to think about. It can sometimes reveal some surprising insight. Geek Native’s own token research has already discovered that sports fans are more likely to do deals with demons. Is that down to the drive to win?

Last year, the blog had a copy of Pierre Pevel’s The Knight: A Tale from the High Kingdom to giveaway. In the book we’ve a hero wrestling with his own darkness and so to enter the competition readers had to say whether they’d do a deal with dark powers if they wanted to achieve something good or whether they’d refuse to work with dark powers at all.

Most readers said they’d work with dark forces if there was the chance to do good. However, the debate was a close thing between men and a landslide for women. 58% of men said they’d deal with dark forces to try and do good while 42% would refuse.

That’s a stark constrat to some 83% of women who would do what needs to be done, make that deal with the dark force, and try and do good.

Would you deal with dark forces?

What about you? If you wanted to do good and had the chance to harness dark powers to do so; would you take it?

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