If a player character were to pick up a thoroughly evil sword with a personality score of far above his own would the sword dominate him immediately (See pages 167-168 of DM's Guide)  How would characters posses sword in order to transport?  Personality score of sword is 37 average personality score of pre-generated characters would be high twenties to low thirties.  

Any help is appreciated.

Martin

If they use the sword, and the sword is much more powerful in personality, the sword can dominate and dictate courses of actions, choosing to fight, not to fight, and all that sort of thing. But, if the sword and wielder share similar tendencies, the sword has no need to dominate, unless it wants to... and, it can decide to not do so anyway, depending on what it is wanting to do (perhaps it wants the current wielder to feel empowered and emboldened by having it, rushing into combat for stupid reasons, only to get killed so the sword can find a more-suited bearer.) As far as I recall, personality conflict only occurs when the sword/weapon is used -- they are not cursed, necessarily, to always be drawn, and so someone could just sheathe it nd throw it in a sack and lug it on a cart or whatever... though specific items may counteract that. Of course, the sword will likely try and communicate in whatever way it can until someone does something about it, which can be a whole lot of fun if the sword has speech and it claims to be a child whose been kidnapped.....

These things are only options and guidelines. Do with them what you will.

This thread reminded me of a funny cartoon in one of the earlier Dragon issues, even though it referred to the intelligence aspect of the weapons instead of the alignment aspect. In the cartoon, a wizard is consoling a sad, depressed fighter and says something to the effect of "Don't worry, lots of fighters have swords that are smarter than they are"