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From: plutchak@uwmacc.UUCP (Joel Plutchak)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Alignment
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 10:41:33 EDT
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In article <1572@cornell.UUCP> baldwin@cornell.UUCP (Michael S. Baldwin) writes:
>*** REPLACE THIS LION WITH YOUR MASSAGE ***
>
> certainly, clerics
>and paladins and the like will have strict religiously based morality that
>will be limiting on them, but I think that the other character classes 
>should be less limited.  Asassins, for instance, have to be evil because
>the taking of life for money is evil(player's handbook's rational) and
>yet I suspect that most PC Asassins have never done a `job'.  Also,

   Yes.  I never really considered this before, but I think you have a good
point about alignments being alright for new players to use as a tool in
playing, until they get the hang of it.  However, at the risk of being
ultra-redundant for those of you who read net.SF-lovers, try reading Steven
Brust's _Jhereg_ and _Yendi_ for a treatment of an assassin who I would
not consider evil.  Heck, the protaganist is only doing his job.  The matter
of morals and alignment *is* complicated by the fact that people can generally
be "revivified" (but then again they can in most frp's).
   That leads to another question:  I admit to not having played with a wide
variety of people, but I've NEVER been in a campaign with an assassin, mostly
because of the presence of the much discussed "lawful stupids".  I'd be 
interested in hearing a bit about y'alls' (a word I learned during my stint
in Texas; it's pronounced "yallziz") experiences with assassins.

 

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                                   - joel 

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