Talk:Reputation/@comment-4134582-20160110054525

One thing I never really understood about BG is how completely impossible it is to play as an evil character thanks to all the Flaming Fists. I mean, you could never kill an innocent person on a whim (i.e. a random NPC) but simply by starting at Chaotic Evil and doing a few minor things like killing a cat or blackmailing someone, you're now totally screwed as all the FF teleport in constantly to kill you. Even if you defend yourself and survive (good luck with that at lower levels), you'll just lower your rep further. Even starting at Neutral and doing a few misdemeanours can lead to this.

If you contrast this to how playing as dark side in KoTOR works, or indeed being evil in any of Bioware's other games, you can see that they acknowledged this. But then it feels like they go to far the other way, with the only real difference between being good and evil being what skills you can use.