
Originally Posted by
Some dude at the Bioware forums
The Paragon/Renegade system works on a percentage based system. Basically, each dialogue choice in the whole game has a number of Paragon or Renegade points to give you. At each Charm/Intimidate decision point, it then adds up the potential number of Paragon/Renegade points that you could have received by that point, and compares it against the number of points that you actually received. So, say that you could have obtained 100 Renegade points by the time Morinth tries to seduce you, but have only managed to accumulate 65 points out of the required 80 for the decision to be available to you. However, if you had gone truly Renegade on some random dialogue a few missions ago, you might have obtained those points that you need now.